Work Sample #1: VINEGAR TOM by Caryl Churchill

This production of Churchill's 1976 play juxtaposed the 17th Century British witch trials with a modern day feminist rock band. I collaborated with composer Teresa Lotz to set Churchill's lyrics to original Riot Grrrl style music. Actors changed time periods in front of the audience, as if shedding the chains of their witch ancestors. 

Work Sample #2: GRAVEYARD SHIFT by Korde Arrington Tuttle

                                                       

graveyard shift is a new play loosely inspired by the legacy of Sandra Bland. When Janelle relocates to Texas for the opportunity of a lifetime, she and her partner, Kane, are reminded that the consequences of being in the wrong place at the wrong time can be horrific. For three Waller County police officers, how might those same consequences manifest themselves along racialized and gendered lines? graveyard shift is a love story about collision, opposing ideologies, interests, truth, and how the characters in this play make sense of them. Or don't.

Work Sample #3: A ROLLER RINK TEMPTATION by Catherine Weingarten

A Roller Rink Temptation​ is a coming of age dark comedy romp about six teenage girls who fall in love at a lesbian roller rink. Rootabega is confused about her sexuality and might be in love with from Hebrew school buddy, but luckily one of the rink’s employees, Lemonade, is ready to show her around. It's Poppy's 16th birthday and her and her BFF Clementine are super excited to celebrate; too bad a fat, scary, girly repressed secret threatens their friendship. Salmonella says she’s “straight” but a chance encounter with an awkward artist named Bluebell complicates everything. 

Work Sample #4: SCUM devised by Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn and Ensemble

SCUM is fantastical burlesque/theater piece that uses dance, music, comedy, stripteases, and text to look at two female figures: Valerie Solanas and Carolyn Sapp. Valerie shot Andy Warhol and wrote the SCUM Manifesto, which calls for the extermination of all men. Carolyn was Miss America in 1992. They both have strong ideas on how to be a woman, but neither of them can quite get it right.

Directed by Daniella Caggiano
​Created by Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn in collaboration with the SCUM cast and creative team

Work Sample #5: NOVAYA ZEMLYA, OR A STRANGE NEW LAND by Mila Golubov

This new play is a darkly comedic folktale about two siblings, Dascha and Serge, who live in an idyllic Ukrainian village oblivious to the outside world for over ten years. Many things happen in that time: the Chernobyl meltdown, the fall of Communism, and the fame of Roseanne Barr among them. As the Apartov children become aware of life beyond their dacha, they resolve to start a new life in America, no matter what the cost. 

BONUS ROUND: Photos from 2018 Drama League First Stage Residency for Brewsters