Past Projects

Assassians

Lighting Designer, Spike Tape

Show Dates : 11/3, 11/4, 11/5 2023

A Wesleyan Spike Tape Fall season production of Assassins, co-directed by Sadie Goldstein ’24 and Miranda Simon ’24.

Assassins is Stephen Sondheim’s musical about those people who have killed - or attempted to kill - presidents of the United States. It explores their lives, motivations, and attempts to understands how they - and we - became disillusioned in the American dream.

The lighting designed received positive reception, with The Wesleyan Argus's Arts & Culture Editor, Sabrina Ladiwala, writing "... in one of the most powerful images in the show, the red light cast on both Booth and the Balladeer, [hinting] that both characters ended up going down the same path."

The Three Musketeers

Director, Geffen Academy at UCLA

Show Dates : 2/4, 2/6, 2/7 2020

Original adaption of Alexandre Dumas' Three Musketeers by Sebastian Bader. As D'Artagnan attempts to win the trust and partnership of the three Musketeers, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos , she learns how to balance her quest to belong with hiding her idenity as a women. Follow our four Musketeers as they cross paths - and swords - with spurned ex-lovers, scheming cardinals, and power-hungry lords.

Drowsy Chaperone

Assistant Stage Manager, UCLA MTSI

Show Dates : 7/13, 7/14 2018

In UCLA's Little Theater, Jeff Maynard directed UCLA's musical theater summer institute production of The Drowsy Chaperone.

The Drowsy Chaperone follows The Man in Chair, a mousy, agoraphobic Broadway fanatic, seeking to cure his sadness, by listening to a recording of a fictional 1928 musical comedy, The Drowsy Chaperone. As he listens to this rare recording, he is transported into the musical. The characters appear in his dingy apartment, and it is transformed into an impressive Broadway set. This show-within-a-show follows our leading lady Janet Van De Graaff as she plans to give up her life on stage to marry the love of her life, Robert Martin. However, debt-ridden producers, gangsters disguised as pastry chefs, and a confused Latin lothario threaten to derail the happy wedding day. Drowsy Chaperone has music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar

Nothing Comes to Mim

Light Board Operator, Senior Capstone

Show Dates : 4/28, 4/29, 4/30 2022

A Senior Theater Capstone Project by Will Blumberg, class of Wesleyan '22.

While taking care of a sick friend in their Brooklyn apartment, Mim starts experiencing what can only be described as divine back pain…

Stuck in the past—somewhere between the beginning and the end—Mim untangles their childhood, desperate to understand how a family history of anxiety and grief has brought them to the present. As the pain continues, Mim faces a reckoning about their identity and the tense relationship with their family.

At its core, this story explores how individuals balance personal identities against the continuation of familial and religious traditions. Together we ask: How can we be One in a line of Many?

Content Warning: This play contains themes and representations of gender dysphoria, homophobia, transphobia.

25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Assistant Director, Geffen Academy at UCLA

Director : Blake Harris

Show Dates : 4/16, 4/17, 4/18 2019

An eclectic group of sixth-graders arrives at the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, each eager to win for very different reasons. Sweet and shy Olive brings only her best friend (the dictionary) with her to the bee; bold and hyperallergic speller William Barfee uses his “magic foot” to propel him to greatness; former champion Chip is struggling with his burgeoning puberty; easily distracted Leaf is unconvinced that he’s smart enough to be a challenger; overachiever Marcy is disappointed by her consistent success; and politically aware Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre only wants to impress her gay dads. In hilarious, touching, and catchy songs, each speller reveals his/her hopes, struggles, and passions as they make their way through the competition. Score by William Finn and book by Rachel Sheinkin.

Pippin

Assistant Stage Manager, UCLA MTSI

Show Dates : 7/15, 7/16 2019

In UCLA's Little Theater, Jeff Maynard directed UCLA's musical theater summer institute production of Pippin (revival).

The musical uses the premise of a mysterious performance troupe, led by the Leading Player, to tell the story of Pippin, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance. Pippin has music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson