“Sometimes I feel like a juggler running out of hands.”

Elvis Costello

Projects

Solo Touring Shows - A Queer Divine, Melancholy, A Comedy, Out of Sight, June Bride, Shtik!, Some Antics and Semantics

Queer Wedding Sweet (website)- originally commissioned by ReJEWvenation 2005, this is a fabulous Jewish wedding musical and queer vaudeville extravaganza starring irresistible juggler Sara Felder, Yiddish superstar Adrienne Cooper, hot jazz pianist Marilyn Lerner, and world music mavens (and Grammy winners!) Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg. Combining stories from actual queer weddings, klezmer and Yiddish songs, juggling, poetry and more, this moving and funny new work brings to the stage original insight on love and commitment in the 21st century.

Finding Paoli’s Marbles – video project with director/clown Paoli Lacey about the burdens and blessings of dealing with both mental illness and breast cancer. (It’s a comedy.)

Jewish Joke Project – archive of people telling their favorite jokes on camera. Soon to be a major motion picture. Does your group/institution want to participate?

Keeping Up With the Joans – commissioned by the Irvine Foundation’s New Works Fund, this multi-actor play tells the life stories of three Bay Area giants of theatrical/political theater: Joan Holden, Joan Mankin and Joan Schirle. It was workshopped at Brava Art Center in San Francisco.

The Lady Upstairs - a multi-actor play that tells the story of the making of the atomic bomb against the backdrop of a lesbian love story. Written as part of the Intersection for the Arts artist-in-residence program, The Lady Upstairs was produced at Intersection for the Arts and Theatre Rhinoceros, both in San Francisco. It was nominated for various awards, including Best Play at the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Nomination.

Bravo Team-building – Philadelphia’s Painted Bride launches a program for companies to use the performing arts to help their employees with conflict-resolution, risk taking, etc.

“Work It Out” – a show that uses juggling to teach the skills of conflict-resolution in elementary schools. http://www.rocksteadyjuggling.com/conflict_resolution.html

Variety shows, private events, community centers – I’ve performed at too many to mention and always have a great time. Keep ‘em coming.