Helsinki
An actor's Zoom interview for an infomercial reveals conflict & collusion between art & commerce. Kool-Aid. Shakespeare. Male pattern baldness. Such stuff as dreams are made on?
Featuring Tony Travostino.
Flamingo
Bonnie never thought she'd be at the center of Florida's catastrophic response to COVID-19. But suddenly she's on TV, explaining it all.
Featuring Rebecca Kush. Directed by Andrew Bellware.
Let The Darkness In
A public health official's last message to her team explores the collision of science and politics in a time of pandemic. A new play featuring Christa Kimlicko Jones.
A Pair of Shoes
Ancient Romans accepted endless wars, a debased currency, and mass execution of rulers' political opponents. Sound familiar? A new play featuring Maduka Steady.
Day 21
The frenzy of pandemic is unleashed. How does illness lay bare the fragility of our lives?
"Actor Cathy Conneff turns in a stunning performance .." -- DC Theatre Scene
An Evening
with Lola Montez
World premiere:
July 2019 at the Capital Fringe Festival
Three Suitcases
Semifinalist
2019 Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference
New York 1939: A landscape of political refuges, growing fascism, and attempts to rewrite history.
Nero/Pseudo
"[A] bona-fide hit musical, from the pen of Richard Byrne." - Broadway World
"... a fun romp that effortlessly links ancient themes of imperial deification & the 20th century cult of rock and roll." - MD Theatre Guide
Recent Writing
How did the streets of Hong Kong become a teeming laboratory for protest in a surveillance state?
How the Velvet Revolution - and an American grad student - sparked a classic book by Bohumil Hrabal.
“I think that we can get a lot from Lonely Crusade in our exact political moment,” says Lawrence P. Jackson, author of a new biography of Chester Himes.
An interview with the Ernst Toller Gesellschaft on the relationship between art and politics in Toller's work, and his continuing importance.
Ivan Sviták, the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 -- and the continuing relevance of his thought in a post-truth age.
The connections between the 1919 victory of Munich revolutionaries at Dachau & the Nazi creation of a death camp there in 1933.
Exploring "weaponized interdependence" and how global networks shape foreign policy with scholars Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman.
A conversation with one of America's great actors - John Astin - about teaching a new generation the tricks of the trade.
