In Summer 2021, with Raja Feather Kelly, Laura Snow, Tuçe Yasak, Brandi Holt, we were commissioned by ImPulsTanz in Vienna, Austria for the third part of UGLY trilogy - Blue. This past summer (2022), we presented this piece at Kampnagel International Sommer Festival in Hamburg, Germany. In part 3, the alien is going home... After these two European trips, we are finally bringing this piece back to our home New York City this December!
Walden by Amy Berryman, produced by TheaterWorks Hartford, has won 5 awards at Connecticut Critics Circle this year!
It was one of the projects that I was very proud of. I loved the team that I was working with. I was and still am so grateful for all the support and people in this journey.
I started teaching at Muhlenberg College this semester. For this semester I am teaching [Scenic Design I] and [Visual Experience & Analysis].
In addition to these two classes, I am designing the school production Call Me By Any Other Name ...Just As Sweet. (link) It is a queer deconstructed Romeo and Juliet mashed with 2nd realm of hell in Dante's Inferno and the ball culture in 1980s documented in Paris is Burning.
The show is running Oct. 21st -Oct. 24th, 2021. Directed by Nigel Semaj
Watch all episodes here
Filmed at Playwrights Horizons during the pandemic, and inspired by the 1963 dystopian novel Kill One, The KILL ONE Race is a reality competition game-play created by Raja Feather Kelly and his dance-theatre-media company the feath3r theory. Over the course of seven days, seven contestants compete in a social and ethical obstacle course to be proven the most ethical—and earn the singular prize of death. Replete with ice-breakers, speed dates, confessionals, sacred rituals, murder plots, and copious dancing, The KILL ONE Race is part-documentary, part-theater, and part-reality TV game show.
I was invited to be part of shapelight by one of my favorite artists and human beings Noelle Ghoussaini. shapelight is an intersection where installation, performance and rituals meet. It is also a space/time where people connect to our bodies and minds, to each other, and to the surroundings and the universe.
Noelle and I collaborated on the first iteration (of this format) while she was an artistic fellow at Target Margin Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. Noelle continued workshopping this idea in the same philosophy in the places she traveled.
In January 2021, shapelight has its official website! Check it out HERE
We are having one workshop per month starting February 2021 for total of 5 workshops. Each workshop we will explore one of the elements. We start with water on Feb. 7th.
In Quintessence Theatre Group's 2020 holiday show, I am designing both set and props. There are some fun props, miniature sets and shadow puppets involve. Oh, and there are moments when audience and characters are interacting with each other!
To find out more, click here.
During the end of this pandemic summer, I was remotely production designing a short film which my good friend Shariffa Ali was developing and directed. I wished I could be there, but the pandemic situation made travel and work much more complicated. Thanks for the support from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and local artists, the film was poetic and beautiful.
You can watch the film here.
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