PRODUCTIONS

THEATRICAL

Production, stage direction, and direction of photography for Pippin by Stephen Schwartz, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Wesleyan University, 2023.Production, stage direction, and direction of photography for Pippin by Stephen Sc hwartz, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Wesleyan University, 2023.
Production, stage direction, and direction of photography for Pippin by Stephen Schwartz, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Wesleyan University, 2023.Production, stage direction, and direction of photography for Pippin by Stephen Shwartz, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Wesleyan University, 202
Production, stage direction, and direction of photography for Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin, live in front of a studio audience: Wesleyan University, 2023.  

A club-produced show which incorporated a triple live-camera setup. Encompassing the tech needs of a full scale musical and film set, Pippin took nine months of hard work to bring to the stage.  
Production, stage direction, and direction of photography for Pippin by Stephen Schwartz, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Wesleyan University, 2023.
Production, stage direction, and direction of photography for Pippin by Stephen Schwartz, Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Wesleyan University, 2023

Our musical was meant to offer an alternative interpretation of Sondheim’s circus--What if the voyeurs forcing Pippin to chase his dream were in fact a camera crew, staging his life as a reality show? What if we could see this show as it was made?

  • We scaled up as far as possible, renting two Hollyland wireless video transmitters for ease of movement. 
  • We would construct an entire film, night after night, with the shots and cuts preplanned. Every night of tech we had to load in three C100 cameras, >10 lights, eight lavalier mics, a Roland video switcher, tripods and transmitters and monitors and all the cords to connect them--and subsequently strike it all.
  • I took on the role of director of photography, “calling” each shot and cut, directing both the camerawork and live editing, and leading three camera operators and a video switcher operator via headset. 
Photos by Max Soley 

 Production and direction for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner: Wesleyan University, April 2025.

We reinterpreted Lily Tomlin’s Broadway debut as a series of vignettes with eight different actors. The connecting thread, as opposed to the acting itself, would be a full tech setup mimicking Tomlin’s “time travel.” Along with gaudy audio design and lots of flash warnings, our aim was to transition through worlds physically: clunkily, loudly, and very brightly.  

  • Acquisition of theatrical rights 
  • Projection design & mapping 
  • Hollyland wireless video transmitters for live camera
  • QLab design 
  • Set design, construction, and dressing
Rear-projection of the outside of a moving vehicle to simulate a car scene.
Projection of a pre-filmed segment, matched to blocking, to recreate a mirror effect in an aerobics studio.


MUSICAL

Production of a show for the NYC band PincLouds: Wesleyan University, 2024.

A documentary about the process of bringing PincLouds to Wesleyan. By John Earling and Mae Cohen, 2024.



Production of a DJ set for Andrew VanWyngarden, 1/2 of the band MGMT: Wesleyan University, 2025.




DRAG


Tech oversight and  production for DRAG 101 with the Queen St. Divas: Wesleyan University, 2025.

The last drag show on Wesleyan’s campus occurred in 2021, staging three performers. It was three years later that we realized forming a resilient drag collective would first be about understanding–and then sharing–what drag was: Leading us into the apt theme of DRAG 101.

Photos by Jasmin Wong. Featuring Nolan Lewis, Nettie Hitt, Minyoung Huh, Georgia Reed-Stamm, Mae Cohen, Evelyn Grandfield, and Harmony Hoogs.