Shows I have Directed
My primary career focus is directing. I love collaborating with other creative people to tell a story.
10/2/2021-10/3/2021
Seascape by Edward Albee
Edward Albee is a genius when it comes to playwrighting. I picked this show as an Advance Directing Project because I felt it was going to be difficult. I interpreted the show as a love letter to what it means to be human. We see the two human characters, Charlie and Nancy, trying to teach Leslie and Sarah, two lizard creatures, what it means to be human. The play is a passing of the baton to a new dominant race. It says "this is ours. It is not perfect but it's ours and we love it" and in a time when people feel as disconnected from each other as every, I felt this was an important message.
2/20/2021
Goin' Through Changes is a short film I wrote and directed for a student theater festival that a theatre company on campus hosted. This was during lockdown so we were not able to include an audience so I decided to use the constraints to make something out of my comfort zone. Mark is an up-and-coming actor who is waiting to hear if he landed a major movie role but he has some doubts. His mom walks him through every time his life had a drastic change and shows him that it was for the better.
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11/20/2020
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
I directed the last two scenes of Arthur Miller's amazing play Death of a Salesman as a Workshop project. Willy Loman is one of the most interesting characters to me and the final scene is his heart breaking demise. I saw Willy as a past-his-prime Superman. Louis Lane no longer needs saving, he's let himself go a little bit, and he does not look like he is up to saving the world anymore. However, Superman is blissfully ignorant to this. The entire show is the Loman family walking around on a cracking foundation that finally breaks in the final two scenes.