I’ve been making theater and video in New York City since 2009, and more often than not you’ll find me in dark rooms for long hours—places where artists still rely on nearly forgotten practices to engage the imagination.
Theater has felt like home for as long as I can remember.
My father founded Rogue Music Theater in Southern Oregon, just down the road from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I started acting in plays and singing in musicals at the ripe age of six. Growing up I participated in hundreds of productions, eventually studying acting at Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1998 and later at the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, where I graduated in 2001.
As my creative inclinations broadened, video design became one of my favorite mediums. Over the years I’ve had the good fortune to collaborate with extraordinary artists across theater, film, television, and installations that live somewhere in between.
In the early 2000s I was making theater and music in Portland with InsightOut Theatre Collective, The ReTheatre Instrument, Portland Center Stage, and several productions at PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival, along with many other West Coast collaborators.
Experimental theater eventually led me to New York City, where I began working regularly in 2008.
In 2015 I also teamed up with my friends at Figure 53 to create tutorial videos for one of my favorite pieces of theatrical software: QLab 3.
Below are a few examples from some of my favorite designs.
My first show designing for Reggie Watts and Tommy Smith. One of many collaborations that paved the way for me to New York City.