Directing at Mercury Store

Mercury Store Directing Lab Cohort

(Winter 2025)

I had such an amazing experience in the Mercury Store Directing Lab developing my current project, Donald Barthelme Humors You, and getting it ready for the start of rehearsals in March. The show will run at Theaterlab from April 10-13, 2025. More info to come soon!

Actors Frankie Placidi as Laura

Actors Maya Smoot as Amanda and Zachary W. Desmond as Tom

Mercury Store Directing Technique Cohort

(Fall 2024)

I had so much fun “drafting in three dimensions” with my cohort of four fellow directors! Above you can see my take on a scene from Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.

And here’s my version of an excerpt about planes from Gertrude Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography:

Audience members "boarding the plane"

Actors Jesse B Koehler, Amanda Centeno, Karin Curet, and Roberto Tolentino making a "painting"

"Flying" over the water

During the program, we had to complete several short-term assignments that pushed us to think on our feet and create dynamic scenes using only the actors from the Mercury Store company and the materials available to us around the Mercury Store building. (I really liked incorporating ladders and books into my scenes.) You can check them out above. 🙂