Artistic Statement

I create performances about isolated bodies and the dilemma of community and interactivity. I am interested in all kinds of bodies: politicized bodies, marginalized bodies, dancing and singing bodies, happy bodies, sick bodies and bodies that need a little extra love.

After being sick as a young adult, I became fascinated with unique bodily experience and how it is conceived, discussed and witnessed by others, leading me directly into my current performance work. By creating experiences where one consciously gazes or is gazed at, current projects all (playfully) challenge an audience to participate in the performance creation.

EDUCATION

Queen Mary, University of London | Phd, Performance | Expected 2011 Queen Mary, University of London | MA, Performance | 2008 (Distinction) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | BA, “Performance and Social Identity” (Honors Individualized Concentration – Highest Honors) and Political Science | 2003.

Performances | Exhibitions

Carpe Minuta Prima | Brixon Village Market (21 February-10 March, 2011) | Bristol Old Vic, Bristol | BAC, London | Central School of Speech and Drama, London | Supper Club | Basement Arts, Brighton | 2009-2011

Cruising for Art | Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Forest Fringe, Edinburgh | 2009-10

BALL & Other Funny Stories About Cancer | OUTBURST Festival, Belfast | Queen Mary, London | University of Glamorgan, Cardiff | 2010-2011

Hold My Hand and We’re Halfway There | Sadler’s Wells, Shunt Vaults, Queen Mary Univeristy, London | Forest Fringe, Edinburgh | Supper Club at Basement Arts, Brighton | As a 5-day installation in New York City, as part of a LMCC Swing Space Grant | 2008-2010

The Three Minute Panto (with Rachel Mars) in Cabaret Simon by Lone Twin | Barbican Pit Theatre and Covent Garden, London | 2009-2010

love, Self- | Atelier du Passage, Paris | Seggau Castle, Austria | Maastricht University, The Netherlands | Stoke Newington International Airport, London Queen Mary, London | Around the Coyote, Chicago | 2008-2009

An Appreciation | Duckie, Bar Wotever, London | Chelsea Theatre, London | Add-Wood Festival, Purex Clube, Lisbon | Bristol Old Vic, Bristol | PSi, Toronto | Work Gallery, Ann Arbor | The Basement, Brighton | 2009-2011

BALL | Performing Medicine (Clod Ensemble), London | Bailiwick Repertory, Chicago | First Person, Philadelphia | Makor, New York City 2005-2011 

Other Funny Stories About Cancer | Live Bait Theater, Chicago | Empty Space Theater, Tempe, AZ | The Tank, New York City | 2006-2007

Festival of Lights Alive | Around the Coyote, Chicago| Jewdas, London | JCC, London | 2007-2009

Making the Cut |  Duckie, London | Brick Box, i'm with you, London | 2010

Georgia's O | Collaboration with Eirini Kartsaki and Olga Raciborska | Duckie's Gay Shame, London | 2009

asdfjkl; and Happy Happy Turkey Day | David Gale's Peachy Coochy | ArtsAdmin, London | 2009

WankBank | Duckie’s Gay Shame & ACT ART, London | 2008

The View From My Side of the Nose| Live Bait Theater, Chicago | 2007

Notches | SMUT @ Galapagos, New York City | 2007

Professional Experience

Queen Mary, University of London | Visiting Lecturer, Practice Based Research Course in the School of English and Drama | 2009-Current

Live Art Development Agency | Research Coordinator for The Many-Headed Monster, by Joshua Sofaer | London | 2008-2009

Clod Ensemble – Performing Medicine | Course Coordinator at King’s College Medical School and Barts and The London School of Medicine | Researcher for Symposium with Tate Modern | 2008-Current

Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Med. | Performer/Educator | New York | 2005-2007 | Performed BALL for 30 medical schools in the U.S., Canada and Israel. Facilitated workshops with medical students, local cancer organizations and various theatre departments.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company | Artistic Apprentice | Chicago | 2004-2005

Seeds of Peace International Camp | Evening Program Coordinator/Drama Counselor | Maine, New York City and Amman | Summers 2001-2005

Publications

BALL | in Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies | Routledge, 2010 | edited by Henderson and Ostrander.

Performance Research | 'Playing More than the Cancer Card' | June 2010

Text and Performance Quarterly | BALL and “Introduction to BALL” | Winter, 2008

Beyond Masculinity | Other Funny Stories About Cancer | Online Journal, June 2008

Steppenwolf Backstage | “4.48 Psychosis: The Struggle of a Young Playwright” | Winter, 2005 | “The Wine of Kings, the King of Wines” | Spring, 2005

Dispute Resolution Journal | "Labor Negotiations & the International Arena." | Spring 2002