IMPOSSIBLE THEATER
I was a founding member of a collaborative company that used large-scale mapped projection with live stage action to convey social critique. The group worked by collaboration and consensus - there was no director and every participant could act, write, design imagery, etc., using theatrical lighting and scrim, movable sets and stylized acting.
Kirby Malone in a reworking of Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein.
Performance or installation venues included:
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, NYC
Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian National Museum of American History (installation), DC
Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC
Washington Project for the Arts, DC
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Theater Project, Baltimore, MD
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Ordway Music Theater, St. Paul, MN
Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
The collaborative company included: Adai Baharmast, Joy Erlich, Rosemary Malone, Kirby Malone, Donna Squier, Laurie Stepp. Music: Bob Boilen.
Grants and Residencies included:
National Endowment for the Arts, Opera Musical Theater.
National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts Program.
The Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Alberta, Canada. Residency.
Similar work outside of Impossible Theater, with musician Bob Boilen included:
Yellowstone Arts Center and Washington Project for the Arts artist exchange.
Projections of historic imagery for a World Saxophone Quartet jazz opera.
From a series of my pastel drawings (above), animated for Whiz Bang: A History of Sound, installed at the National Museum of American History. Other images from productions based on Howard Zinn's People's History of The United States, works by social critic and historian Russell Jacoby, and Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.