Directing Projects
Playing May 10-12 UC Santa Cruz
Playwriting work currently in development.
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52
In August of 2020 wildfires raged through California. My family and I were evacuated from our home for almost three weeks. When we returned, we were under a “don’t boil don’t drink” mandate with the water department. And we were the lucky ones.
The 52 is a series of impressions, one artistic exploration for every week of the year beginning in August of 2022, the second anniversary of the fires. These mediations will take a variety of forms: poems, flash fiction, short plays and monologues, photography or visual art. The series will conclude in August of 2023.
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Grendel’s Mother
A radical feminist retelling of the Beowulf story as seen through the eyes of Grendel’s Mother by Kirsten Brandt.
Cast of 5.
Grendel’s Mother received a staged reading at the Center for Monster Studies’ Festival of Monsters summer of 2022 at UC Santa Cruz, the performance starred Patty Gallagher as Grendel’s Mother, Kinan Valdez as Beowulf, and Artis Anderson, Zoe Adams, and Abi Coomes as The Disir.
Photo: Adobe Stock: Beneath The Surface by David Edwards
40 Elephants
A musical about an all female Victorian era crime syndicate that terrorized London for over 100 years. Book and lyrics by Kirsten Brandt
Photo: Adobe Stock image by razoomanetu
Gewgaw: or the shit all over the house
Cast of 6
A dutiful trip to grandma’s goes awry when everyone arrives to an empty house. Catherine, along with her three feuding daughters and granddaughter, contend with sibling rivalries, entitlement, betrayal, and all the damn tchotchkes grandma left behind.
Image: Dalle-2 AI