Play by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Rebecca Wright
Dramaturg for production at Bard College.
"Puntila, a rich farmer, has a split personality: when drunk, he is generous and kind; when sober, mean and selfish. Sober, Puntila wants his daughter Eva to marry a Foreign Office diplomat; drunk, he leads her to his chauffeur and drinking companion, Matti. Although Eva prefers Matti, she fails to attract him, and a party is arranged to celebrate her engagement to the diplomat. During the party Puntila gets drunk and insults the diplomat, who leaves. Puntila now wants Matti to marry Eva. Matti puts her to the test to see if she is good enough to be a proletarian's wife, but she fails to meet his requirements, and Matti leaves to join his working-class comrades."
Play by Diane Wagner
Directed by Diane Wagner
Dramaturg for original production at Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts.
"A group of former friends finds the same note in their lockers telling them to go to an abandoned house in the middle of the night. They show up and find themselves in the very room where their friend Dani died years ago. As they confront long-buried secrets, uninvited guests—both spectral and real—force them to face the messy, often painful realities of growing up."
Play by Annie Baker
Directed by Jonathan Rosenberg
Lighting design observer under the mentorship of Thomas Dunn.
"The action takes place entirely in a sterile corporate conference room in which a group of young-to-middle-aged people assembles to help create some kind of story under the supervision of a mysterious, guru-like figure named Sandy. As days pass, the group focuses increasingly on the nature of storytelling itself, and also on the nature of time. Eventually the group’s collective case of writer’s block transforms into a crisis of faith. The atmosphere becomes increasingly oppressive. Like exhausted Scheherazade's, the team members—especially one named Adam strive to keep the story ideas spinning to save their skins (or at least their hefty paychecks)."