SCRAPBOOK
This page is a running scrapbook of memories of my journey as a playwright and an artist
Seattle Opera
Opera in the Making: Libretto-Writing This aria, Amir, I love you, was an assignment from an online class I took with Jessica Murphy Moo and the Seattle Opera. This aria from a sketch from White Nights by Dostoevsky, but reset in Teheran. The video is used with permission of Seattle Opera Afarin Mansouri - Composer Alan Olejniczak - Librettist Cheryse McLeod Lewis- Mezzo Soprano Li-Tan Hsu - Piano |
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Death of Ivan Ilych
A World Co-Premiere Opera Music by John Young and Libretto by Alan Olejniczak In Partnership with Orlando Opera and Thompson Street Opera Company. FRIDAY | February 19 at 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY | February 21 at 5 p.m. ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART |
Photos by Opera Orlando & the photographer, Bearded Lens
- 2020 -
Phil Whelan, host of Morning Brew on RTHK Radio 3 interview with Nicholas Atkinson and myself about The Proscenium's production of Helt Texas
23/11/2020 (starting at 1:59:28)
LISTEN HERE
23/11/2020 (starting at 1:59:28)
LISTEN HERE
Final Read-through of The Proscenium's A Christmas Carol
November 2020
Nick Atkinson, Alan Olejniczak, Carl Prekopp, Mina Anwar, Simon Paisley Day, Michael Therriault, Chris Nayak, Jonathan Broadbent,
David David Ricardo Pearce (and family), Nat Ramabulana, and Belinda Pinto
David David Ricardo Pearce (and family), Nat Ramabulana, and Belinda Pinto
Zoom Libretto Reading of Minute to Midnight
June 2020
Proscenium On Line Theatre
June 2020
- 2019 -
NES Writer in Residence
November 2019 - Skagaströnd, Iceland
November 2019 - Skagaströnd, Iceland
Artist in Residence for Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
September 2019
September 2019
Punch Presentations
September's recording session of Helt Texas in Hong Hong
MicroGalleries
Disrupting Climate Disruption: A Day of Creative Action
September 21st, 2019
Disrupting Climate Disruption: A Day of Creative Action
September 21st, 2019
Sea Level 2080 is a simple and powerful, open-source art project that I installed with musician Liam Fien on Punau'u Black Sands Beach on the Big Island of Hawaii. Sea Level 2080 is the brainchild of artist and sculptor Adam Kuby and installed by 26 other artists, activists, and students worldwide to coincide with the UN Climate Summit on September 21st and The Climate Reality Project: 24 Hours of Reality: Truth in Action.
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Recoding the Demo of Scene Six from Death of Ivan Ilych
With John Young, Alex Boyd, Hanna Brammer, and George Hemcher
Sarasota, Florida, July 2018
With John Young, Alex Boyd, Hanna Brammer, and George Hemcher
Sarasota, Florida, July 2018
The 38th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival Val-Kill A PlayLab Reading, Friday May 24th at 3:30pm Independence First United Methodist Church 200 S Penn Avenue Independence, Kansas |
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Google Sustainability Team
Google Headquarters, Mountain View CA
April 2019
The Developmental Reading, directed by Cole Ferraiuolo, dramaturgy by Austin Owen,
with Eliza Bovin, Andrew Chung, Adam Niemann, Ashely Gennarelli, and Gabriel Montoya
with Eliza Bovin, Andrew Chung, Adam Niemann, Ashely Gennarelli, and Gabriel Montoya
FaultLine Theater's Reading of HELT TEXAS
Directed by Cole Ferraiuolo, Dramaturgy by Austin Owen,
with Eliza Bovin, Kevin Glass, Phillip Wong, Ashely Gennarelli, and Gabriel Montoya
with Eliza Bovin, Kevin Glass, Phillip Wong, Ashely Gennarelli, and Gabriel Montoya
Micro-Galleries Collective
Artist Residency: November 2018, Katmandu, Patan, Nepal In partnership with Kaalo 101, Blue Diamond Society, and UNESCO. Micro Galleries International Arts Collective is a global arts initiative that uses art as a vehicle to create positive change, through creative interventions in public spaces, workshops, art tours, symposiums, think tanks, and residencies. |
The Road Theatre Company
SUMMER PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL 9 August 5th 2018 Transgress Directed by Laura Stribling with Lucia Towers, Kathy Bell Denton, Chet Grissom, and Eddie Kehler |

The Arctic Circle:
SUMMER SOLSTICE EXPEDITION
The International Territory of Svalbard
June 10th to 27th, 2018
Playwrighting Residency
The mission of The Arctic Circle Residency is to foster communication and collaboration between artists, scientists, educators and activists. The Arctic Circle is a biannual expeditionary residency program, which sails the high arctic, bringing together international artists of all disciplines.
READ THE TRAVELOGUE OF THIS ADVENTURE
SUMMER SOLSTICE EXPEDITION
The International Territory of Svalbard
June 10th to 27th, 2018
Playwrighting Residency
The mission of The Arctic Circle Residency is to foster communication and collaboration between artists, scientists, educators and activists. The Arctic Circle is a biannual expeditionary residency program, which sails the high arctic, bringing together international artists of all disciplines.
READ THE TRAVELOGUE OF THIS ADVENTURE
FaultLine Theater Conference in The Sea Ranch, California
February 3rd to the 4th
February 3rd to the 4th
- 2017 -
ArtSpan:Open Studios
November 10th -12th
November 10th -12th
Rehearsing and recoding a sample of GALOIS
O+ Festival in Kingston, NY
October 7th, 2017
October 7th, 2017
The Bechdel Group and The Drama League
New York City, September 25th, 2017
New York City, September 25th, 2017
UNFORGIVEN
Theatre Bay Area Celebration
Z Space, June 2017
Z Space, June 2017
Photoshoot for PROGRESS
Salton Sea, California May, 2017
Salton Sea, California May, 2017
The 36th Annual William Inge Festival
Independence Kansas
Independence Kansas
- 2016 -
Bicycling to Afghanistan
by Karl Schnecke with At Last Theatre
November, 2016
by Karl Schnecke with At Last Theatre
November, 2016
Lethe with the San Francisco Olympians Festival
October 2016
October 2016
A surprise belated birthday and retirement gift from Jeff and Mike.
A beautifully restored 1939 New Remington DeLuxe Model 5.
A beautifully restored 1939 New Remington DeLuxe Model 5.
DOMINION
with At Last Theatre
April, 2016
with At Last Theatre
April, 2016
Costume Renderings by Arthur Oliver
Production and Rehearsal Photos
if then(-else)
with Dover Little Theatre
with Dover Little Theatre
Unhappy Birthday with Theatre Pub
January, 2016
January, 2016
- 2015 -
Hylas with San Francisco Olympian's Festival VI
November, 2015
November, 2015
Original graphics by Cody Rishell
www.codyrishell.com
www.codyrishell.com
Workshop Reading of Dominion
at The Foundry in Berkeley, October 2015
at The Foundry in Berkeley, October 2015
Present Tense
with At Last Theatre
Pictures taken by Jim Norrena
Production and Rehearsal Photos for Present Tense
- 2014 -
A Staged Reading of Bloodline
Playwright Center of San Francisco
Directed by Laylah Muran de Asserto and produced by Laylah Muran de Asserto
June 16, 2014
Playwright Center of San Francisco
Directed by Laylah Muran de Asserto and produced by Laylah Muran de Asserto
June 16, 2014