I've directed over a hundred productions at theaters across the country. The through-line is language: Shakespeare, mostly, but also Beaumont and Fletcher, Chekhov, new works, and devised pieces built from scratch with companies of actors. My job is to do the dramaturgical and imaginative work that helps actors put the story first; to make the language clear, the stakes real, and the world specific enough that an audience can live inside it.
In recent years, my work has moved increasingly toward adaptation and devised theater; taking myths and epic narratives and reshaping them for small, intensely trained companies. The Odyssey, East of the Sun, West of the Moon, Tales from Ovid: these are pieces where the writing and directing are inseparable.