DIRECTING

joy and care and big thoughts. safety and bravery. honest-to-goodness playfulness.

gathering and dreaming and building.

Strawberry Princess

written & performed by Elise Piliponis

  • It was a joy and honor to direct and co-produce the world premiere of Elise Piliponis’ Strawberry Princess, an audience participatory, coming-of-age theatricalization of a Southern beauty pageant, in the radical tradition of queer solo performance, in residency at Chelsea Theatre Works.

  • production photos
    by Meryl Prendergast

  • audience participant tackles the role of Jesus

  • dress rehearsal

  • stage manager Hannah Levinson adjusts “cross” gobo we fashioned out of an aluminum pie plate

  • LX board operator Peri Griffiths

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical

by Rob Rokicki & Joe Tracz

  • An adventurous imaginative QUEST with the brilliant minds of Greater Boston Stage Company’s Young Co. Summer Fest. Photos courtesy of Benjamin Rose Photography.

the tale of the dragon princess knight with nine lives

by Ashley DiLorenzo

  • An epic game of make pretend unfolds in Miss Charlotte's classroom. A tender, goofy, nostalgic new work on friendship and self-discovery produced by Silver Masque Theatre Co.

  • photos by erin solomon

Choose & Celebrate
[staged reading]

by Catherine Giorgetti

  • A workshop and staged reading of Catherine Giorgetti's new play, inspired by and drawing from the content of Gay Community News, a collectively-run weekly newsletter published in Boston as a resource by and for the queer community from 1973-1999.

The Dream Department

by Isabelle Bushkov

  • The HR department of your dreams... literally! This sweet and silly 10-minute was performed masked in 2020, produced by Silver Masque Theatre Co.

Later

by Corinne Jacker

  • Process photos from Later, featuring a cast and creative team of awesome high school freshman & sophomores at Westford Academy.

  • photos by devon whitney

  • beach day rehearsal (field trip)

  • rigging drop cloth sail

  • the set - composed of found items that might be washed ashore - manipulated into various shapes

  • sophomore stage manager Heather with her awesome model set, on a trip to Lowe's

  • rehearsal photo - 'bathtub' and 'toilet' created out of found & built lobster crates

  • sophomore assistant director & LX board op Elle during tech

  • outdoor 'table' read

  • 1st rehearsal

  • As the tide pulls away, it pulls shells, seaweed, sandcastles with it and comes crashing back rhythmically to repeat the process. This is a play about rebuilding in the wake of loss, about forgiveness of self and others for what is unalterable. Although the past is gone, it tends, like the tide, to keep crashing back, demanding to be reconciled with. As two daughters urge their grieving mother to sell her beach house, Later asks if it is possible to rebuild and move forward without entirely leaving the past behind.