Past Project Highlights
826LA Workshop - Power Up! Build Your Own Superhero
YouthSpeak
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3-month Theatre of the Oppressed workshop with affordable housing resident youth dealing with bullying, family issues, housing conditions, peer pressure, money, and crime within communities. The workshops culminated in a Forum performance for 50 community residents, who intervened in the scenes youth had made and made their own scenes in response. |
Teatro Politico ImiaruHelped found the first Indigenous Shuar theatre company in Makuma, Ecuador, to fight against oil extraction and work on youth issues in a changing landscape. Three months of workshops in conjunction with the NASHE indigenous government and anthropologists, with several performances for the community and notable figures including the provincial governor and a presidential candidate.
Spoke on Shuar perceptions and domestication of theatre at the 19th Annual Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference in 2013. |
2013 Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Conference talk on the project.
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Excerpts from scenes in a Forum session about women, tradition, and modernity in Makuma in 2012, with English subtitles.
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Los Gorgeous Dead
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LA ensemble workshop on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story 'The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World'. Worked with theatre, puppetry, clowning, music, and dance to create a piece that reflected not only Marquez's world but Los Angeles. The piece was about desolate places, larger-than-life characters, materialism, possession, celebrity, and creation myths.
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UNDERROADS
Theatre production asking the question: what do we do when we run out? Created by an ensemble using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques as the research component of 1st Class MA Dissertation entitled 'Toward a Green Theatre'.
Winner of the Prize for Innovative Research in Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews 2011. 4* reviews from The Saint and The Tribe. |
The Dirty Pint Pub Crawl
The National Association of American Leprechauns (NAAL)
Music Video: Put Your Hands Up
Conceived and directed a music video for prominent Scottish-Nigerian rapper Mena. Cinematography and editing Igor Slepov.
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George Orwell's 1984
Original adaptation of Orwell's classic in the Butoh style, presented in association with the University of St Andrews Student Union and Amnesty International Society on the week Britain mandated ID cards for immigrant residents.
Won 'Best Director' St Andrews 2008 from The Saint. |
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