Directing / Devising
walking without direction
interactive audio experience
NYC Municipal Art Society Jane’s Walk, May 2023.
Featured in Refugia Design’s multi-award winning exhibition, The Inner Landscape, at The Philadelphia Flower Show, 2022
The Listening Lab, Trusty Sidekick Theater Company, 2021
The Tank, CyberTank Digital Series, 2021
The Society of Historic Sonic Happenings
sound art installation and interactive performance
Childsplay Theatre and TYA/USA National Festival and Conference, 2023
The Listening Lab, Astoria Performing Arts Center, Trusty Sidekick, 2021
UpClose Theater Festival, New Ohio Theater, 2020
“There’s magic brewing in a tucked away spot… conjured by some of the most exciting downtown artists.”
Photos: Hyphen Photography
Scurry
created in collaboration with Trusty Sidekick, written by Spencer Lott
commissioned by Lincoln Center Kids and Family Programming
Trusty Sidekick Theater Company
Lincoln Center, 2019
The Emperor’s New Clothes & More Magical Stories
created with Barbara Zinn Krieger, New York City Children’s Theater Company
Theatre Row, 2018
Nominee for Best Family Play, Off Broadway Alliance
“[The show] is as devoted to making children reflect as to making them laugh.”
Photos: Nick Mayfield
The Ancient Mariner
immersive, interactive, and multimedia adaptation of Coleridge’s poem
Strike Theater Company, workshop showing, 2017
Light, A Dark Comedy
created with Greg Steinbruner and Paper Canoe Theater Company
Triskelion Arts, 2016
New Victory LabWorks, Duke Theater, 2014
“a great opportunity to get lost in a strange and mysterious land - isn’t that what all good theatre should allow us to do?”
Stephen Kaplan, Theatre is Easy
Photos: Hyphen Photography
Photos: Christopher Ash
Washeteria
site-specific, immersive piece created with Louisa Thompson and Sarah Benson, and featuring work by Cesar Alvarez and Charise Castro-Smith
SoHo Rep, 2015
Washeteria has “…washing machines that burp butterflies… Carts that double as fishing boats… Genies who scarf granola bars… Who needs permanent press when you could have such untidy magic?” Alexis Soloski, The New York Times
https://vimeo.com/119153159
Love is Love
original play with music
created with students at Pace University
Sibiu International Theater Festival, 2015
Pace University, 2015
Wanda’s Monster
by Barbara Zinn Krieger, New York City Children’s Theater
Vineyard Theatre, 2013
Mint Theater, 2012
“Briskly directed by Adrienne Kapstein … sweet but also sublimely silly”
Eurydice
by Sarah Ruhl
Brooklyn College, 2012
Photos: Hyphen Photography
Beast
site specific flashmob with accompanying audio track
An adaptation of Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” created with members of Trusty Sidekick Theater Company
Figment Festival, Governor’s Island, 2011
Speak Easy
staged radio drama with live foley
created with SaBooge Theatre and Jodi Essery
Centaur Theatre, Montreal, 2007
Photos: Rachel Roberts
Every Day Above Ground
original adaptation of Ondaatje’s “Collected Works of Billy the Kid”
written by Jodi Essery with SaBooge Theatre
Performance Space 122, 2007
The Wilma Theater Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, 2006
Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland 2006
Centaur Theatre, Montreal 2006
“Another strikingly original work, both visually and textually… actors move through a dusky dreamworld of hidden entrances, unseen faces and sudden surfacings, [the show was] at once deeply moving and brilliantly chilling.” Belinda McKeon, The Irish Times
“Visually inventive and finely crafted [with] exquisite physical performance.” Jeff Lewonczyk, Time Out New York, 2007
Fathom
created with SaBooge Theatre and Jodi Essery
“The staging, so imaginative it can make your eyes water… SaBooge is be a gale force to be reckoned with.”
Helen Shaw, The New York Sun
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, 2006
Ohio Theatre, Soho Think Tank's Ice Factory Festival, 2005
Project Arts Center, Dublin, 2005
National University of Ireland, Galway, 2005
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, 2004
The New Classical Theatre Festival, Montreal, 2004
Queens University, Ontario, 2004
Photos: JJ TIziou
Hatched
created with SaBooge Theatre
“…a beautifully-realized fantasy that comes charmingly and hauntingly to life... This is beautiful theatre, important in its complex simplicity.” Emer O’Kelly, The Sunday Independent, 2003
“Watching them is pure joy - not a wasted movement, not an insignificant gesture ... inventive and playful; as entertaining as it is intelligent." Susan Conley, The Irish Times, 2003
HERE Arts Center, 2004
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, 2004
The Theatre, Kingston, Ontario, 2004
Centaur Theatre, Montreal, 2004
Project Arts Center, Dublin, 2003