Outdoor Phenomena
With Walkabout Theater I directed a series of summer spectacles, pop-up events, and roving performances that we called Outdoor Phenomena. Fundamental to this work has been a six-year long partnership with the Chicago Parks District, whose support has helped facilitate free performances in Chicago parks across the city. The most recent outdoor performances include…
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Monuments (2019)
A dynamic flock of technicolor colossi explore the deep human connection to place through a celebration of impermanence, remembrance and change.
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A Persephone Pageant (2018)
An interactive pageant weaving together mythic tales of nature gods and true stories of the Great Lakes—including their history with Chicago, and the great victories and challenges associated with their preservation.
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Tall Girl and the Lightening Parade (2017)
A bilingual adaptation of a Tz’utujil Mayan story told by Martín Prechtel in his book The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun — a tale about Tall Girl’s great and illicit love for the pint-sized Hummingbird boy.
