Directing Highlights
Molly Thom as Hecuba in Trojan Women, by Gwendolyn MacEwan. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
trojan women
Adapted from Gwendolyn MacEwan's translation of Euripides' classic. 2011.
Hecuba and the women of Troy await their fate at the hands of the conquering Greeks. A sung chorus with music direction by Lily Ling based on a Maryem Hassan Tollar composition.
Jason Jazrowy as Said in Khalida by David Fancy. Photo by Lindsay Ann Black.
khalida (Toronto + new york)
Canadian premiere of Khalida by David Fancy. Summerworks. Also workshopped at Lincoln Center Directors Lab, 2009.
A monologue for one actor. Set in an oil-producing nation. A recent arrival to this country, Said attempts to come to terms with the losses he has endured; to find his way back to love through the art of Meyerhold's biomechanics.
(from left to right) Laura Burns, James Gangl, Robin Archer. Independent re-mount at the Bread & Circus Theatre. 2009.
James Gangl as Larry in HONK! if you can hear me. Original site-specific Summerworks production. 2007.
HONK! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME
By Laura Burns. Summerworks (2007). Re-mount (2009).
A site-specific comedy about commuters. An oratorio of overlapping, syncopated dialogue.
Workshops
battered
by Arthur Holden. A staged reading at Infinitheatre, Montreal. 2015.
THE HANGING MAIDS, A cabaret
Adapted by Alexandra Seay from Margaret Atwood’s novel The Penelopiad. A site-specific musical intervention performed by 6 women developed with 7th Stage Theatre Productions.
First workshopped with Burning Passions Theatre (2010). Original Workshop Cast: Kiran Friesen, Elena Jucato, Heidi Lynch, Michelle Polak, Lauren Spring, Astrid Van Wieren.
Lyrics by Margaret Atwood. Original music written and performed by Reza Jacobs.