Resume
WORK
All My Fathers, La MaMa E.T.C., New York, N.Y. (2019)
Faust 3: The Turd Coming, or The Fart of the Deal, Judson Memorial Church, New York, N.Y. 2017
Curtain Wall Part 4: Hero's Watch, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space, Governors Island, N.Y., 2015; screening at Hercules/Art Studio Program 2017
Curtain Wall Part 3: An Immersive Landscape Theater Performance of Christopher Marlowe's "Hero and Leander," New York Harbor/Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Residency, Governors Island, N.Y., 2015; screening at Emily Harvey Foundation, 2015; screening at Hercules/Art Studio Program 2017; exhibited in Water Works presented by Works on Water and Underwater New York, Governors Island, 2018
For You (when I’m not there), Mykonos Biennale 2015
Kentucky Cantata, HERE, N.Y., N.Y., 2015
Curtain Wall, Unchained Theatre, L.I.C., N.Y., 2014
Kentucky Cantata, Emerging Artists Theater New Works Series “Nontraditional Forms,” N.Y., N.Y. 2013 (staged reading)
Clown Play, N.Y. Int’l Fringe Festival, N.Y., N.Y., 2013
Trayvon, I have my eyes on you, The Brick, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2013
In the Summer Pavilion, 59e59 Theaters, N.Y., N.Y., 2012
In the Summer Pavilion, Living Theatre, N.Y. Int’l Fringe Festival, N.Y., N.Y., 2011
nOt tHERE, (in collaboration with Niall Jones), Marlborough Gallery, N.Y., N.Y., 2011
Balcony Scene 2010, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1, N.Y., N.Y., 2010
David & Ira, Scripts Up!, Theater at Joria Productions, N.Y., N.Y., 2010
Christians Having Sex in Silence, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, Lion Theatre, N.Y., N.Y., 2010
Fireplace Poker, Red Room, N.Y., N.Y., 2010; (published by Indie Theater Now)
Waking Up With Strangers, Kraine Theater, N.Y., N.Y., 2009
Balcony Scene, LMAK Projects, N.Y., N.Y., 2008
Mimesis, (in collaboration with Trajal Harrell), apexart, N.Y., N.Y., 2008
Times and Places, (in Icelandic), Kaffileikhusid, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2000
Translations from German:
Heiner Müller: After Shakespeare (Macbeth; Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome), with Carl Weber, PAJ/MIT Press, 2012.
The Art of C.G. Jung, W.W. Norton & Co., 2018.
Art and Crime, Seven Stories Press, 2022.
Selected Play Readings
Arlington Heights, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, N.Y. 2018
All My Fathers, Abingdon Theatre, director Evan Yionoulis (with Mary Beth Piel), N.Y. 2016
All My Fathers, Cygnet Theatre, director Robert Lutfy, N.Y., N.Y. 2016
Anatomy Titus Fall of Rome by Heiner Müller (translated by Paul David Young and Carl Weber); director Robert Woodruff (with Bill Camp, Reg E. Cathey, et al., CUNY Segal Theater Center, N.Y., N.Y. 2013
No One But You, Alliance Theatre, director Freddie Ashley, Atlanta, GA 2010
Aporia, Palo Alto Arts Center, Palo Alto, CA, 2010
No One But You, New York Theater Workshop, director Adam Greenfield, N.Y., N.Y.2009
Aporia, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., 2009
No One But You, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., 2009
No One But You, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
Aporia, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
Aporia, Living Theatre, N.Y., N.Y., 2008
No One But You, Primary Stages PrimeTime Reading Series, director Carlos Armesto, N.Y., N.Y., 2007
Times and Places, (in English), La Mama E.T.C., N.Y., N.Y., 2001
Residencies
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Residency, August - December 2015
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency, September 2011 – June 2012
Pearlman Fellow, Djerassi Artists Program, 2010
Kerr Foundation Fellow, Millay Colony for the Arts, 2009
Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Waterford, CT, 2009
Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Summer Conference, Lexington, N.Y., 2006
Artist-in-Residence, Byrdcliffe Colony, Woodstock, N.Y., 2005
Video Collaboration
For You (when I’m not there); title, text, voiceover and performer; with choreographer Shaun Boyle; Moving Frames video dance exhibition, Prato, Italy, 2011.
Playwriting Awards
No One But You, Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, 2009
No One But You, runner-up, Kendeda Playwriting Fellowship, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta; 2009
Aporia, finalist, Kennedy Center John Cauble Short Play Award; 2009
Aporia, New Works of Merit Playwriting Competition --Third; 2009
Christians Having Sex in Silence, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, Semifinalist, 2011
Curatorial ProjecT
“Perverted by Theater” at Apexart, New York, New York, October – December 2008 (co-curator with Franklin Evans); review Ken Johnson for The New York Times, Nov. 14, 2008, thereafter The New York Times “Weekend” listings as a selected exhibition weekly until closing of exhibition; Time Out New York listings, starred as “recommended or notable” exhibition; reviewed in Art Lies: A Contemporary Art Quarterly, No. 60, Winter 2008
EDUCATION
Yale University, B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Distinction in the Major); 1981
Fulbright Scholar, Universität Bielefeld, Germany; study with Reinhart Koselleck; 1981-1983
Columbia University Law School, J.D. (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar); 1986
New School for Drama, M.F.A. Playwriting; May 2009
ACTING/PERFORMANCE
Principal Performer (with Janie Geiser and Michael Buscemi), Patricia Thornley’s THIS IS US: Don’t Cry For Me, New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde, Lincoln Center, 2013
George Zimmerman, Good Eyes, Bad Eyes, The Brick, 2013
Abraham, a homeless drifter, Rachel White’s Blank, Hudson Guild Theatre, Strawberry Festival, 2011
Town Drunk, Melissa Friedling’s McCabe, 2007, video, part of Chris Doyle’s 50,000 Beds, Aldrich Museum and other venues