Theatre
The anatomy of melancholy
Target Margin, June 2024
The Eno River Players’ adaptation directed by Leo Egger at Target Margin Theater. A condensed version of Anatomy’s 1,200 pages into a one-hour, form-bending play posing vital questions : Why are we so melancholy, and what are we supposed to do about it? What’s the point of living a life devoted to reading and writing? For that matter, what’s the point of living at all?
Steppe
Rattlestick Theater, June 2023
A new play by written and directed by Masha Makutonina as a part of Rattlestick’s Global Forums Theatre Festival. Steppe is a play about war’s devastating effects on the lands we try protect as we follow Dmytro and Daryna, two desperate Ukrainian refugees battle over who between them will granted parole in the US.
Small Mouth Sounds
Playwrights Horizons Downtown, November 2022
A play about a group of wayward individuals looking for the answer to what it means to be at peace with a world that makes less sense to them, all while trying to build relationships with one another on a retreat where they are not allowed to speak.
The Lower Depths
Abe Burrows Theater, October 2021
A play that depicts a group of impoverished Russians living in a shelter near the Volga.The theme of harsh truth versus the comforting lie pervades the play from start to finish, as most of the characters choose to deceive themselves over the bleak reality of their condition.
