2023 | nyc | firebird
You will know more than you do now…
What happens when we grow up? How do we cope with change, growing apart, becoming someone we don't recognize? Follow a young girl’s epic journey through the seasons of the year as she seeks to rescue her best friend. Devised by a viewpoints quartet of teen artists.

2023 | nyack, ny | phoenix
Here today, in next week tomorrow!
A high-paced physical theater rendition of Kenneth Graham’s beloved Victorian fairy tale. Join Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad on a both hilarious and nostalgic outdoor adventure that celebrates the joys of community, found family, and the profound beauty of the outdoors.

2023 | nyc | firebird
It is better to be alive.
This futuristic thriller from 1920, which coined the word “robot,” explores the ethics and decision-making behind robotics and AI. Why do we insist upon creating tech in our own image, and where it will end?

2023 | nyc | phoenix
You bring the tea, we spill it.
A regency-era roleplaying game, with audience-created rumors. Imagine if Austen and the Brontës got drunk and wrote a Choose Your Own Adventure.

2022 | nyack, ny | phoenix
What’s the point of all this!?
In this flashmob-inspired solo show, a speech at a fundraising event goes a little off the rails. Based on the short play by Anton Chekov, adapted for NYC downtown legend John Lenartz.

2022 | nyack, ny | phoenix
Style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
A glitzy, dollhouse-styled outdoor staging of Wilde’s farce of Victorian ideals and double identities. Mainstage at Phoenix Festival, named “Top 10 of 2022” by Theatrescene.

2022 | fordham university studio
Knowledge is stronger than memory.
BA Thesis. A nonlinear interactive retelling of Stoker’s gothic opus. Explore epistolary scenes while piecing together the secret timeline of an extinction-level threat.

2021 | online, university of toronto
Maybe it feels unreal?
A poem in Zoom-dates. A couple separated in the early days of COVID try to overcome a physical border by meeting somewhere in-between.

University of Toronto FOOT (Forum of Original Theatre, Theory & Thought) Conference 2021.

2020 | online | firebird
Blood will have blood.
A multi-media rendition of ‘Macbeth,' remotely devised by seven teen artists, examining the violent and disturbing ways we fulfill or defy our fates, as well as the bloody legacies we inherit and those we pass on to the generations to come.

2020 | nyc | phoenix
Death happens to other people!
At a group therapy session for dead people addicted to life, a recently-dead man gives his final confession. US Premiere of Steven Sharkey’s adaptation.

2019 | nyc | firebird
The people don’t need any new ideas.
A dreamlike scandinavian noir. A family and a town are torn apart by the discovery of a virus in the water. How far will you go with the whole world against you?

2019 | nyc | firebird
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.
Rugrat Romans play to the death in this apocalyptic daycare. Where does the hunger for power come from? How early does it set in?

2018 | nyc | firebird
Our little life is rounded with a sleep.
The island is alive in this highly physical arena staging of the classic poetic comedy, newly-adapted in a fast-paced, raw, modern telling by Zoe Senese-Grossberg and Leo Lion.

2018 | nyc | firebird
It is better to be alive.
Sometime around 2000, an indie dev team on an island lab unveil their invention: a synthetic android. A Y2K and Apple-infused vision of humanity’s last days, in a horror-fueled alternate history by Zoe Senese-Grossberg and Leo Lion.

2018 | nyc | firebird
This is the way we were.
A tech rehearsal becomes a meditation on community, on waiting, on time… life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. Thornton Wilder’s haunting chronicle seeps through the fourth wall in this metatheatrical staging.

2017 | nyc | firebird
These are the hands that cut our youth in twain.
Generations clash, role models fail, and love stories don’t come true. A modern staging with a half-adult, half-teenager cast gets at the heart of the disconnect between parents and children -- a rift that too often turns deadly. Original adaptation by Zoe Senese-Grossberg and Leo Lion.

2016 | nyc | firebird
We must go on, because we can't turn back.
A shanty-fueled epistolary quest on the high seas, brought to life by a bare-bones set and a ship-shape ensemble of teen actors. In this original adaptation, a stolen pirate map sends a young boy on a swashbuckling search to find glory, a father figure, or the wrong end of a blade.

2015 | nyc | firebird
Little hands make vain pretence our wanderings to guide.
A deeply playful, visually poetic, dreamy iteration of the beloved nonsense-novella. Riddled with puppets, visual effects, live foley sound, ballet, and more, this original adaptation performed with a cast of teen actors celebrates the precious, fleeting magic of childhood play.

2014 | nyc | firebird
Show me where it says I can’t have a cow in here.
A tonally bizarre farcical drama about an indie coffee shop’s battle against monopoly. Co-written by a dad and his thirteen-year-old son in the wake of Occupy Wall Street, eXpresso is a fiercely odd fable about the chaos of capitalism.

2013 | nyc | firebird
So much time and so little to do. Wait. Strike that. Reverse it.
A homeschooled theater community mounts their spring play: a questionably legal staging of the 1971 Willy Wonka movie. Performed in a sold-out off-Broadway theater, directed by a 13-year-old kid, an iconic retelling of the strangely dark candy fairy tale.