Third Law
Third Law is an interactive theatrical experience, working to maximize audience agency and bring them into the heart of art making using technology. Through a digital game board, the audience has the unique opportunity to shape the world of the play and the characters in it, collaborating with the artists and each other to co-create a performance that can only happen live and in person. Combining high-concept art installation design with performance and gameplay, Third Law brings us together in space in a visceral and dynamic way - and it’s never the same twice.
Third Law, will receive its world premiere in a Co-Production with Culture Lab LIC and What Will the Neighbors Say? Theatre Company this May. More info and tickets available here.
Wresting Place - Short Film
Wresting Place is my first foray into filmmaking. I wrote the script in the summer of 2020 and shot the short film in May 2022. The film will premiere in early 2023.
In a small, secluded bungalow in Los Angeles, Ilana has been living with her mom, Leeza after the death of her grandmother a few months before. Ilana increasingly feels isolated and pulled into the vortex of her mother’s life and wants to return home (across the country, where she left her partner during a conflict). Due to some alarming behavior she’s witnessed, Ilana feels like she cannot because she’s worried that her mother won’t be ok. Over the course of 24 hours, the women clash over spoken and unspoken tensions between them. Tonight, the spirit stirs the women’s unspoken resentfulness and they messily fight.
In the Kitchen
In the Kitchen was originally conceived as a multi-disciplinary performance event with cooking, dance, and original music exploring cross-generational Arab-Jewish womanhood. After a sold out workshop in October 2019, a full live production was planned, but a global pandemic got in the way. In the Kitchen was adapted as an audio play, paired with a mail-order food box, curated by Annabel Rabiyah of Awafi Kitchen, in a one-of-a-kind culinary-art experience. Listeners are led by creator Hannah Goldman through a tapestry of stories examining the intersections of Judaism and Arab culture, feminism, and culinary heritage, while they prepare Ba'abe Beh Tamur, a delicious Iraqi cookie, in the comfort of their homes. It's an integrated theatrical experience unlike anything else.
Between The Threads
(Jewish Women Project)
Between the Threads (Jewish Women Project) is a devised theatre piece about Jewish women in America exploring their relationship to their Judaism. What does it mean to be part of a tiny minority with a disproportionate representation in the national consciousness? How does our identity as Jews intersect with our identities as women? How important is our Judaism to our lives now? What is our responsibility as a historically oppressed people in the face of blatant injustice in our own country, and injustice done in our name in another?
Beauty Freak: Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia”
by James Clements
"Beauty Freak" is a new multi-media play exploring the complex and controversial life and legacy of the German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl. Riefenstahl was born in Germany and rose to prominence as a silent film actress. In the 1930s, she turned her astonishing talents as the pioneering female filmmaker of her time to the service of the Nazi regime. Her films, made in the 1930s, altered the course of modern cinema, but also immortalized and celebrated the murderous cult of Hitler and the Nazis. Though cleared by de-Nazification courts, she remained forever tarnished by her association with the Third Reich.