Et AL.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
Performance at the Back Alley Theater, an underground performance space that I helped curate.
THeater
DC's Fringe Festival, home to all things experimental, provided the platform for my first full length play, Interviews With in 2015 (awarded “Pick of Fringe” by DC Metro Theater Arts) and an acclaimed collaboration, Play Cupid, described by The Washington Post as a must-see! From 2006 - 2016 I performed as a supernumerary with the Washington National Opera, appearing in nearly a dozen productions at the Kennedy Center and at embassy events. I performed with the Washington Improv Theater from 2013 - 2015 and studied physical theater at Pig Iron in Philadelphia and under the direction of Dody di Santo at the Center for Movement Theater.
Possessed by the fiddle just like these creatures in my favorite painting by Hieronymus Bosch.
Music
I am a very amateur, but avid, fiddle player of Appalachian old-time music and other traditional styles. Though mostly self-taught, I briefly studied at East Tennessee State University, the first Old-time, Country and Bluegrass music program in the U.S. (where I performed Li'l Liza Jane as part of my audition). Since then I have done projects with Smithsonian Folkways and co-produced Milestones, a box set of previously unreleased Doc Watson recordings. Check out the b part for musings about the waxing and waning of my obsession with fiddle tunes.