STAGE PLAYS
Decline of Ballooning - Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Chicago - January/Feb. 2010
Anthology 3 - Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Chicago - February 2009
Anthology - Goat Island Symposium, Chicago - July 2008
We Were the World - Rhinoceros Theater Festival – Chicago - Sept. ‘07
Right-Handed Saw Left-Handed - Links Hall – Chicago - April ‘06
Detail From the Mountain Side - Rhinoceros Theater Festival – Chicago - Sept./Oct. ‘05
Discarded Landscape - PAC/edge Performance Festival - Mar./April ‘05
Transportation - 32 Key Concepts/Lucky Pierre – Chicago - Nov. ‘04
Chapter 5/The Alice Project - Neo-Futurists – Chicago - Sept./Oct. ‘04
Air Tact Light - PAC/edge Performance Festival – Chicago March ‘04
The Casual Family - Rhinoceros Theater Festival – Chicago - Sept./Oct. ‘03
Sound and Telling - 24-Hour Festival – Chicago - July ‘03
Understanding Shyness - 24-Hour Festival – Chicago - April ‘03
Wheat Studies, 1888, Kansas - School of the Art Institute of Chicago - April ‘03
Tuning in to the Power of Active Listening - 24-Hour Festival - Chicago - February ‘03
One Two Three Four Five - Rhinoceros Theater Festival - Chicago - Sept./Oct. ‘02
Histrionica with Banjo - Curious Theater Branch – Chicago - Jan./Feb. ‘02
Picture of a Dog - Found Theatre - New York City - June ‘00
Histrionica with Banjo - New Visions/ New Voices Festival - Dallas April/May ‘98
Ezra - Richardson High School - Spring ‘94
FILM/VIDEO
Obelisk, director/writer with Theo Stanley and Lionel Maunz - Pre-production
Isthmus, director/writer with Theo Stanley and Lionel Maunz - Post-production
Hierophant, director/writer with Theo Stanley and Lionel Maunz - 2012
- Official Selection: Madrid International Film Festival
Ganzfeld, director/and by Jeff Harms and Dan Mejia - 2012
- Official Selection: Chicago International Music and Movies Festival
Death is the Road to Awe, created with Julian Wayser - 2008
The Objects of Living, created with Jeff Harms - 2007
Glass Jaw, director/editor - 2000
Acquaintance, director/editor - 1999
EDUCATION
Brown University: Providence, Rhode Island
PhD, Theatre and Performance Studies, expected 2017
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago, Illinois
MFA, Writing, 2003
Southern Methodist University: Dallas, Texas
BA, Cinema Studies/Creative Writing, 1998
PROFESSIONAL
Rosetta Stone, Harrisonburg, VA - December 2010 to July 2012
Writer
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - January 2003 to December 2010
Adjunct Assistant Professor
+Various courses in creative writing, literature and essay writing, including:
1. Theater of the Avant-Garde
2. Ridiculousness
3. Post-War Japanese Literature
4. Playwriting
5. Pataphysics
Columbia College Chicago, IL - August 2005 to December 2010
Adjunct Faculty
1. Composition I and II
PUBLICATION
Detail from the Mountain Side - Drag City Records (Azita Youssefi music record) 2006
Directions - Tarpaulin Sky 2006
Arcanum - Telophase.3 2003
The Acquisition of the Plume - Telophase 2002
monolog from Histrionica with Banjo - Grand Valley State University Press 2001
Chalked - Preling Magazine #1 2001
Histrionica with Banjo - LowFashion.com 2000
SELECTED EXPERIENCE/ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• 2010 AIR Krems Artist Residency - Krems, Austria
• 2008 SAIC Faculty Enrichment Grant
• 2007 CATWALK Residency - Catskill, NY
• 2006 Illinois Arts Council Finalist Grant
• 2005/2006 Links Hall Chicago artist-in-residence
• 2005 CAAP (Community Arts Assistance Program) Grant
• PAC/edge Commission, $3,500 award to present work at the 2004 PAC/edge Performance Festival
• Professional stage direction and production
• Goat Island performance group summer workshop, 2002
• Awarded full funded production as part of Curious Theater Branch’s “Scaffold Project”, 2001
• New Visions, New Voices playwright’s festival selection, 1998