POSITION: PRODUCER / DIRECTOR / PERFORMER
Produce, choreograph, write and perform comedic works for festivals, theaters, galleries and films. Curate and spotlight comedic talent as a producer and host.
CHALLENGE: Stir attention and cultivate a mass audience for small independent projects without institutional pedigree or much advertising budget.
TACTICS: Media stunts
Aggressive press solicitation
Significant audience engagement
RESULTS: See below.
Peoples Improv Theater
Producer, Performer, Host
Transit Museum Stunt
Leveraged media savvy: I leaked an unauthorized subway performance, resulting in coverage from DNA Info and the New York Times, which led to a cease and desist letter from the MTA.
Created a loophole: I pitched and secured a commission for my subway themed performance from New York Transit Museum. I then applied, and won, for a community engagement grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council.
Incorporated audience participation: Using crowdsourced stories, I translated real life subway experiences into a 30 minute dance, recruiting people of all ages and backgrounds to dance in historic subway cars.
Pitched new story: I updated local press about how I overcame being banned and am now bringing communities together through dance.
Comedy In Dance Festivals
Official Selections
Le Grand Continental
Outreach Coordinator / Rehearsal Director
Mass Transit
Bootleg Theater Commission
Go Metro
Highways Performance Space
Awards
Princess Grace Awards Nominee for Cornish College of the Arts. There is only one allotted per school each year.
Community Engagement Grant, 3/18/2015, Brooklyn Arts Council: to produce a piece inspired by public transit stories, recruiting people of all ages and backgrounds to dance in historic subway cars.
Film Festival Official Selections: Philly Sketchfest (5/2019) Battle of the Sketches (5/2019) New Filmmakers (6/2019) and Portland Comedy Film Festival (11/2019) for comedic short “Avenue WTF”. Salamanca Moves (9/2016) Bucharest International (11/2015) Danza Havana (4/2015) Athens Video Proj (2/2015) Cinedans (1/2014) for dance films.
Dance Commissions: NY Transit Museum (1/2015) Bootleg Theater (1/2011) for transit-based works. Rudy Perez Ensemble (1/2009) for solos at Luckman Arts, Highways, Pasadena Armory.
Creation Residency, 1/28/2013, Joyce Theater: to initiate Shakedown Dance Collective.
