Plays, Theater, and Performance Pieces

Theater and Performance Works

Whale Fall

A multimedia monologue and meditation on memory and childhood, human-cetacean relationships, environmental collapse, and the possibilities for organized life after capitalism.

Performed by Iris McCloughan
Visual design by Nobutaka Aozaki
Directorial consulting by Adil Mansoor

Debuted at The Poetry Project on Friday, October 22 and Saturday, October 23, 2021.

Showing again at Cannonball Festival in Philadelphia, PA on Thursday, April 7 and Friday, April 8, 2022.

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Madeleines: Tell Me What It Was Like

A mid-pandemic Zoom play written and performed with Iris McCloughan.

Presented by New Ohio Theater as part of Producer's Club 2020, Nov 21-22, 2020. Technical assistance by Allyson Paty. Special thanks to New Ohio and Kuih Cafe.

Read an impossible conversation and performance text between Iris and I in Denver Quarterly volume 54 no. 4.

Anne Carson's The Tenth Muse at the 92nd Street Y

An evening of translation with Emily Wilson (Homer) and William Levitan (Abelard and Heloise), 4/27/17 at the 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center.

Oedipus in the District at The Tank NYC

Photos of an opera conducted by Jesse Brault, music by Joshua A. Getman, and directed by Arthur Markaryan; performed by Terrence Chin-Loy (Oedipus), Sarah Brownawell (Antigone), Jonathan Comfort (Anchor), Alanna Fraize (Oracle/Creon/Ismene), and Jiarong Li (Pianist).

From the October 2019 previews at The Tank in New York, NY. Photos by Jesse Brault.

Oedipus in the District at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY

Photos of a an opera with music by Joshua A. Getman; direction by Arthur Markaryan; conducted by Jesse Brault; sung by Charles Sy, Lydia Graham, and Connor Ouly; and music by pianist Ji Yung Lee and an ensemble from the Juilliard School.

From the April 2018 performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY.

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Oedipus in the District at The Juilliard School, NY, NY

Photos (by Matthew Quigley) of an OperaComp collaboration with composer Joshua A. Getman; director Arthur Markaryan; singers Charles Sy, Lydia Graham, and Connor Ouly; and pianist Ji Yung Lee.

From the March 2018 performances at Juilliard in NY, NY.

In the Gun Cabinet Release

Part one of a two-part video. 3.19.16 at La Sala, Brooklyn, NY. Video by Emily Raw. Sound by Zachary Nichols and Mike Lala.

In the Gun Cabinet Release (pt. 2)

Part two of a two-part video. 3.19.16 at La Sala, Brooklyn, NY. Video by Emily Raw. Sound by Zachary Nichols and Mike Lala.

Points of Return

Select archival scans and details from a borrowed-text and -image series composed with paper, vellum, inkjet-printed text, xerography, and handwriting, inspired by Paul Celan, Pablo Neruda; Mark Augé; Paolo Virno; Lucy Ives; Ronald Johnson; Dolan Morgan; and including prints from The New York Public Library Digital Collections and various Creative Commons makers.

Read some Points of Return at BathHouse.

Read Points of Return [the world killer] (based off the Lucy Ives novel of the same title) at The Offing.

Read an early version of Points of Return [the small room] (based off the Dolan Morgan story "Cells") at Sundog Lit.