Sound Break
Creator, Director, Performer, Producer with Lightning Rod Special
Lightning Rod Special Podcast 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically shifted the landscape of live performance in March 2020, Lightning Rod Special began experimenting with new forms of remote collaboration. The result was Sound Break, a series of stand-alone audio works that bring LRS’s explosive and trickster style into the audio medium.
Nosejob
Crossing medieval legend with American sexual politics, Nosejob tells the story of a 9th century abbey of nuns who cut off their noses to repel a pack of rapacious vikings, and a 21st century college where boys are “burying” their faces in girls’ cleavage as part of a schoolwide prank. At the center of this wicked satire is college student Devon Chase, a feminist in search of a fantasy life she can live with. Nosejob charts the contours of consent, power, and fantasy to ask what has changed about rape culture in the last 13 centuries?
We Are Trying to reach You
Centered around actual voicemails left on Lead Artist Katie Gould’s phone while she was undergoing in vitro fertilization, We Are Trying to Reach You is an original audio work that dives into the medical, financial, and emotional realities of one woman’s experience with infertility. Making the personal public, We Are Trying to Reach You casts listeners as a patient besieged by a litany of medical information, overwhelming advice, and conflicting emotions. Though silence and stigma around infertility abound, the CDC reports that “12% of women aged 15 to 44 years in the United States have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term.”
SUPERHOST
A Halloween audio thriller that unfolds over a series of voicemails to Adrian, the owner of a beautiful Airbnb in rural Maine. Get away from your stressful and conventional lives. Extend your stay. You deserve to be alone. You deserve hospitality. You deserve luxury. You deserve self-care. Because, wherever you come from, you belong here.
