new beginnings

new name

new work to launch in early 2024: short film + perfume line

graphic design of late

totally got hitched -- best graphic design I've pulled off yet -- go ahead, take a gander:

REWOUND : a night directed by Kellen Stanley

Solo show at TRANSIT: A cooperative for emerging artists (San Antonio TX)
Opening performance : WED 3/23, 7pm
Closing performances : FRI 3/25 & SAT 3/26, 8pm

show infos HERE, yall.

marnie slides

"this is a long story... if you need to rest, just lay down."

the scanner reads

some scans of the weeks passed and the weeks ahead,
though i keep having to remind myself to live in this moment
ya never gonna bog me down

the VHS sleeve where the marnie tape resides...
(a post-it still attached with my 5th-grade-handwriting of people i want to invite to my birthday)

i love my dad's handwriting so much

first pages of the script-- with musical, director's, and babbling notes included



hey, thanks, notes on directing.

my later install mockup, inspired by a dream. the dream told me everything my aesthetic choices needed to hear

rehearsal notes of this week


without those notes and this planner, this thing would never get done

looking,

currently:

ANOUK KRUITHOF, Temporary Cakes




LISE SARFATI, Austin, TX series


Playwrite SARAH RUHL

Theater Company THE WOOSTER GROUP

Theater Company REDMOON THEATER

Redmoon's Production of THE ASTRONAUTS BIRTHDAY at the Chicago MCA

and... the making of

Guy Maddin's THE HEART OF THE WORLD

Allan Kaprow's Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Annnnd, here we go THESIS

Thesis Two with two capital 'T's.

SOURCES OF INSPIRATION.

The boat installations of Swoon




The installation works of Monica Canilao





The video performances and set design of Mika Rottenberg





The... well... everything of Improv Everywhere



The performances of Miranda July




The electronic opera, Tomorrow in a Year, created in collaboration by the brother-sister band The Knife





Cites :

Krapp's Last Tape (1958) - Samuel Beckett

Notes On Directing: 130 Lessons in Leadership from the Director's Chair - Frank Hauser and Russel Reich

Improv Everywhere - Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places with Improv Everywhere - Charlie Todd, Alex Scordelis

Synecdoche, New York - (2008) Written and Directed by Charlie Kaufman

Music of Roger Sellers -- local San Marcos experimental musician who uses layering of ambient audio with rhodes, banjo, vibes, loop pedal, and other instruments

WNYC's Radiolab Shorts podcast episode - "Moments," "The Ring & I," and "Memory and Forgetting"