Book Chapters:

Forthcoming from Futures of Theatrical Experience: Mediatized Cultures and Postdigital Praxis.  Edited by Sean Bartley and William Lewis. 2026. Routledge.

“Access Through Animation: developing performance about mediated spectating.”

Animation is a theatrical principle that dominates the digital interface. As theatre makers, what tools can help us get beneath the surface of the interface? The research, prompts, and exercises presented here aim to help anyone developing new performance about mediated spectating and/or performances with, about, or through (animate) interfaces.

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From Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists.  Edited by Sean Bartley and William Lewis. 2022. Routledge.

“Theatrical Immersion in Alternate Reality Games”

“Post Digital Response” Co-authored with Eric Hoff

Published Essays:

“Alive and Life-Like: Animation and Theatricality (Through Duck Amok).” Animation. Volume 20:3. 2025

With the help of Daffy in the 1953 film, Duck Amuck, this article argues for pursuing animation historiography and theory through the lens of theatricality, demonstrating along the way how animation reveals (and revels in) the theatricality of cinema.

“The Lightest Distinction.” Published in InVisible Culture 2014.  http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/portfolio/the-lightest-distinction/

Using Anne Washburn’s brilliant dissection of light in the theatre, Mr Burns,  this essay makes the argument that the transition from gas light to electric light is the moment that Theatre becomes electric media aligned with such technologies as TV and should therefore be a locus of historical investigation for entangled technological histories.

“Diectic Feet: Performance as the Index of Animation.”Published in Mimesis Journal 2014. https://journals.openedition.org/mimesis/357?lang=en

This essay explores how theories of the foot and walking relate to construction of animation and our own relationship to viewing animated matter.

“Notes From a Star-Struck Fan: MARY-KATE OLSEN IS IN LOVE.” Published in The Brooklyn Rail 2014. http://www.brooklynrail.org/2013/11/theater/notes-from-a-star-struck-fan

An experimental interview using an obsessed fan character to investigate a playwright who uses fan culture in her work.

Plays

The Whole Day Down – 2014

Teen garage music and ghosts from Thornton Wilder’s Our Town haunt a family after a son violently upsets a school production of the famous play.

Midnight Reading Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 2014
Construction Zone Workshop at A.C.T. Seattle 2014
Link to longer synopsis and sample pages.

Boomer-Banns – 2025

A post Trump administration has declared war on the Boomer generation, stripping them of their rights.  Despite their differences, Dee hides away her elderly, injured father who is obsessed with a conservative radio host stoking the flames of inter-generational war.

X-mas Carols: Being a Ghost Play of Christmas – 2019

A bitter, old actor–only ever cast in Christmas Carol–trolls his fellow cast-mates until three ghosts and a near death experience reel him back toward a life worth living.

Nuclear Family Apocalypse – 2015

The last married couple on the run tries to hide their conjoined telepathic twins from global Queer Utopian agents who have different plans for the family of the future.