Plays

Still Wants, Reading (with Wants), Stissing Center for the Arts, May 2023

Feeding on Light, premiere, Undermain Theatre, Dallas, TX November 2022

Excerpts from Feeding on Light in Attention

I.C./I See, work-in-progress staged reading, Dixon Place, October 2015

Memory's Storehouse, Goethe Institute, Tokyo, May 2014 Invisible Dog Art Center, January 2012, New Ohio Theatre May 2012

Photo Finish(ten minute play)
Created in collaboration with Adrienne Kapstein and the performers
New Georges Perform-a-Thon, October 2, 2010

Staying Afloat
Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory Festival, Ohio Theatre, July 2010
Dixon Place (workshop presentation), January 2009
New Georges (workshop presentation), December 2008
Ohio Theatre (workshop), September 2008
Voice and Vision Envision Festival (reading), May 19, 2009
Developed as Writer-in-Residence, Voice and Vision's Envision Residency, Bard College, June 2008
"Priscilla" excerpt, presented and recorded as part of York/New York: a space, a voice, a text, at York/St. John University, York, England, September 2008

TRACES/fades
Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory Festival, Ohio Theatre July 2008
in development at HERE Arts Center & 3LD:
January 2007; Part II. November 2005, January 2006; Part I. May 2006, Aug. 2006, May 2007

L'heure blue
performance for MacDowell Colony Centennial, Peterborough, New Hampshire, August 11, 2007

LA RECHERCHE DU PAIN PERDU
a performance intervention for the Purchase College Neuberger Museum benefit, November 4, 2006

Photo by Carl Skutch

MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPER solo
Ohio Theatre, February 2004, Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory, July 2003
Developed at Dixon Place at Patio, Feb 2003; SUNY/New Paltz, Oct 2002; SUNY/Purchase, Sept 2002 and April 2003
Exerpts performed at New Georges Perform-a-thon, Oct 2002; Hemispheric Institute Conference, NYU, July 2003

MEMOIRS OF A CAJUN-AMERICAN PRINCESS (compilation of performance texts)
SUNY/Purchase College, April 2003

THE MAMA DRAMAS solo
HERE Arts Center, Jan 2001, SUNY/Purchase, March 2001, Ohio Theatre, Feb 2002

COATICOOK
Undermain Theatre at Dallas Theatre Center, March 2000; at Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival, NY, August 2000
Just Add Water Festival at New York Theatre Workshop, March 2000
Finalist, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s One Act Marathon, 2000

DUSK solo
Dixon Place, Dec 1999, Tonic, May 2000, New Dramatists, Oct 2000 (DUSK became Part II of The Mama Dramas)

THE SINGING: a cyberspace opera (book and lyrics) with composer Daniel Levy
York Theatre, 1999; New Dramatists, 1998; Dance Theatre Workshop’s Hit & Run Festival, 1997
Richard Rodgers Award, 1999; Frederick Loewe Music Theatre Award, 1998

WANTSsolo
Dance Theatre Workshop, Oct 1996 (premiere, commission); Vineyard Theatre, Watermark’s WordFire Festival, March 1997
NY Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theatre, New Work Now!, May 1997

WANTS play for 3 actors
Ohio Theatre, 1998 (workshop co-produced by New Georges and Soho Think Tank for Ice Factory ‘98)
Theatre 1774/Playwrights Workshop of Montreal, 1995 (workshop, staged reading)
Finalist, 1997 Weissberger Award; Honorable Mention, 1996 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award

MY NEBRASKA, play inspired by Willa Cather’s MY ANTONIA! with music by Bill Ruyle
Australian National Playwrights Conference, 1997 (workshop,staged reading) 
Additional workshops and readings: Nebraska Repertory Theatre/Wagon Train Project (Lincoln, NE), 1995
New York Theatre Workshop, New Dramatists, Classic Stage Company, 1996

FLYING HOME
Primary Stages "American Myths" Festival, 1996

VALENTINE’S DAY, 1980 (bis)
Ensemble Studio Theatre, "Hell’s Kitchen Sink" series, 1996

Photo by Vivian Selbo

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE solo
Downtown Art Co., Ohio Theatre (Project 3 and TWEED New Works Festival), Primary Stages, Dixon Place, Alice’s Fourth Floor, New York Theatre Workshop (studio), Atelier Trigon (Paris), Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Oberlin College, Portland Art Museum (OR), 1993

THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE play for 3 actors
Classic Stage Company; Company One (Hartford, CT) (staged readings) , 1994

A TOURIST’S GUIDE TO THE BIG EASY solo
Cucuracha Cabaret, 1994; New Dramatists, 1996

CREOLE, A TROPICAL FANTASY solo
Primary Stages "Planet Project" Festival, 1993
Text for THE CORPORATION WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, a film by Joel Katz

THE KNOWLEDGE PROJECT
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992
Interactive solo with installation (created with Vivian Selbo) for "The Art Mall As Social Space" show

WITH YOU THE REST OF….
Downtown Art Co., Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Maryland Art Place (Baltimore), 1991
Finalist, 1992 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award

ISABELLA DREAMS THE NEW WORLD full cast version
Ohio Theatre, Directed by Champagne, music by Zeena Parkins, set by Liz Prince, 1990
Ohio Theatre, Directed by Robert Lyons, 1994
HERE Arts Center, Directed by Ruth Margraff for Tiny Mythic’s U.S.A. Project, 1997
Readings: Seven Stages Theatre (Atlanta), Louisiana State University
Native Voices/Native Visions Playwriting Award, 1993

ISABELLA DREAMS THE NEW WORLD solo
Alice’s Fourth Floor, Downtown Art Co., Dixon Place, Movement Research, the Gas Station, MacDowell Colony, M.K., Under One Roof, 1990-91

OH, SAY, CAN YOU SEE? solo for People’s Flag Show 20th anniversary, Judson Church, 1990

DR. CHARCOT’S HYSTERIA SHOWS
A collaboration with Judy Dworin, Dianne Hunter, Jerry Rojo.
Ohio Theatre (NYC), Oberlin College, Trinity College (Hartford), New York Theatre Workshop (studio), 1988-89

OUT FROM UNDER solo
Classic Stage Company, Soho Rep, Real Art Ways , Berkeley Rep, Westbeth Theatre, Irish Arts Center, Ingber Gallery, Movement Research, Dixon Place, Performance Space l22, Home for Contemporary Theatre, 1989

Photo by Vivian Selbo

WOMEN WITHOUT PARTS
LaMama, Yale Cabaret, Home for Contemporary Theatre, Continental Life (LMCC), 1988

SARAH BERNHARDT MEETS HER WATERLOO
DIA Art Foundation, 1987
 
FRACTURED TALES FROM THERE TO HERE
Boston Film and Video Foundation, Grove Street Gallery (Worcester, MA), 1987

WINTER HEAT
Set by Claudia Fitch, films by Jim Hubbard. Performance Space 122, 1987

AS READY, APART FROM HERSELF
Installation by Claudia Fitch. Franklin Furnace, 1986

Photo by Vivian Selbo

HOME
Set by Claudia Fitch, films by Jim Hubbard. Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Real Art Ways (Hartford), 1986

THE EYE OF THE GARDEN
Commissioned ollaboration with sculptor Claudia Fitch and composer Glen Velez. Creative Time’s Art on the Beach, 1985

FRACTURED JULIET
B.A.C.A.’s Downtown Cultural Center (Brooklyn), Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Hallwalls (Buffalo), Pyramid Arts Center (Rochester), Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church , 1985-86

FROM THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT
Performance Space 122, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), 1984-85

REPTILE WARMTH
Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, Basement Workshop, Central Halls Gallery; Trinity College, 1984-85

THE WAY TO THE RIVER
Solo for Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America Franklin Furnace, College of New Rochelle, 1984

FLYING HOME
Just Above Midtown/Downtown, Franklin Furnace, Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), 1983-84

MANNA
New Museum of Contemporary Art, Franklin Furnace, 1983

GETTING OVER TOM
Franklin Furnace, l982, College of New Rochelle, Performance Space 122, Trinity College, 1984-85
Williams College "New Voices" Playwriting Festival, Playwrights Horizons, 1992

WOMEN IN RESEARCH
Collaboration with Cindy Carr and Patricia Jones; music by Jim Farmer. Inroads, 1981-82