FringeArts hosts a version of the <MAKE><SHOW> workshop I've been running this October/November. You can sign up here.

I'm also excited about two new residencies:

• Eco Week with Fresh Ground Pepper at Little Pond Arts Retreat. I'll continue work on a new project with my brother and Sohrab Haghverdi.

• A project I'm developing with Lightning Rod Special has been awarded The Next Forever Commission by The Civilians and Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. 

Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner one night only at FringeArts. Friday, March 21st @ 9pm.

See the experience audiences have described as:
"Unconventional. Undismissible. Unforgettable." "Restored my faith in live theater." "Made my entire piss drinking shitty hyphenated American life so beautifully worth it." "Fucking rad."

And one Barrymore voter railed as:
"A waste of talent. Could have been funny and/or enlightening. Can't imagine why you wouldn't play a suave Casanova trying to pick up naive American girls. You have the looks/body for it. Just don't understand the need to 'uglify' that. P.S. I actually googled retrograde ejaculation—and guess what? It's a real thing! So I actually did walk out smarter than I walked in (but still wanted to take a shower)."

I'm back in Philadelphia after two weeks in NYC:

• Attended my first APAP and was mightily disillusioned by the state of arts funding in the US and the whole idea of the arts as a stable career path.

• Was buoyed some by PhysFestNYC. Flux shows went well. Check out this review from a blogger that attended one of the two performances.

• Supported Alex Tatarsky as an outside eye in the development of their new work NOTHING DOING, and attended a handful of other Under the Radar works.

Check out a work in progress showing of Sohrab is Bumbling Foriegner before its premiere in Cannonball.

Thursday, July 18th at Vox Populi with doors at 7:30pm, performance 8:00-9:00pm, and a brief talkback to follow. Tickets are by donation towards the development of the project.

You can also support the project through Sohrab's GoFundMe.

I'm looking forward to teaching my first class at University of the Arts' Ira Brind School of Theater Arts in the new year! I'll be teaching a script analysis class for undergraduate theater majors across all of UArts' programs: Acting; Directing, Playwriting and Production; Musical Theater; and Theater Design and Technology.   

This is a space holder as we transfer posts over from my last website.

This is a space holder as we transfer posts over from my last website.

This is a space holder as we transfer posts over from my last website.

This is a space holder as we transfer posts over from my last website.

This is a space holder as we transfer posts over from my last website.

This is a space holder as we transfer posts over from my last website.

This is a space holder as we transfer posts over from my last website.

Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews and I are hosting a workshop this Friday, January 9th from 7:30-9:30pm at The Rotunda. Head over to the event page for more details and to RSVP.

Blind Games are just what their name implies: games where some or all of the players cannot see. For one evening, join Morgan FitzPatrick Andrews and Mason Rosenthal in an exploration of these theatrical games and what they reveal about sightedness and blindness, ability and disability, power and privilege, as well as the nature of games and playfulness. This fully experiential workshop will also serve as a launching point for an upcoming Medium Theatre Company production about vision loss, to be created by visually impaired artists.

Things slowed down for a bit there in early January. I've been sick with a nasty ear and sinus infection. Yuck. But now I am taking my daily dose of antibiotics and those things are amazing. After two days of taking these huge pink pills, I am feeling like a new person. Just in time because things are starting to pick up this month.

This last week was filled with preliminary workshops for a new directing project with Groundswell Theatre Company. We spent time exploring the many different ways that human beings look at animals. Topics of inquiry included wildness and wilderness, meat, factory farms, zoological gardens, nature documentaries, and animal activism.

Now this week I am moving into the next Philadelphia tour of Nobody's Home with The Medium Theatre Company. I am performing the show in 7 different host homes across Philadelphia. Seating it limited however, and I expect that all of the shows might sell out, so get your tickets now by filling out this form.

Finally, at the end of the month, I am very much looking forward to a trip to Rhode Island to work with Strange Attractor and Roger Williams University on the develop of a new work called Sans Everything.

I can hardly believe it myself, but it is already mid-May and before the month is over I will have performed in three brand new dance works.

May 16th-19th I will be dancing as part of The Jobs Project, an original dance inspired by interviews with 25 Philadelphians, from CEOs to sanitation workers.

May 19th at 7pm I will perform an improvised interdisciplinary collaboration with Murmuration, a genre-crossing ensemble focusing on free improvisation based on Western classical music. This performance is part of thirdbird's Blind Date series.

May 22nd-24th and 27th-29th I will be performing in shatter ::: dawn, a performance event merging installation art and dance, for ten audience members and five performers.

Check out the kickstarter campaign for shatter ::: dawn, a dance installation event where I will be performing under the direction of Zornitsa Stoyanova. There are 5 performers and only 10 audience members each night, so stay tuned for more information about tickets. 

On Sunday May 19th I'll be performing as part of Thirdbird's Blind Date series.

Blind Date is an evening of improvised performance where musicians and dancers are matched with someone they have never worked with and challenged to: “make a plan, or plan not to."

I've been paired with Murmuration, an amazing group of classically based improvisors with Eric Coyne on cello, Russell Kotcher on violin and Andrew Marsh on vocals/trumpet. I'll be dancing/talking/singing on the spot. It is sure to be a wild night for everyone involved.

Just getting home after an exciting rehearsal for Punkmonk with Alex Torra in the room.

Although I have been working on and researching this piece for almost a year, it is still very much in the "emergence" phase. In this phase of the rehearsal process, I'm willing to try lots of ideas that may or may not be scrapped later on. I am still discovering the physical and verbal language of the world I am creating.

This month or so of rehearsal is about playing around in the world of performance art. Taking inspiration from artists like Franko B and Marina Abramović, artists that focus on their own bodies performing (sometimes extreme) concrete actions.

I have some rehearsal experiments coming up involving boxing, blood, beer and karaoke. Some wild risky stuff happening. Looking forward to sharing it with you in the near future!