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lively debates of the inconsequential

A project-manager’s reflections on human-centered problem-solving, client communication, and user feedback in agile web development.

A fragmented memory of friendship – navigating fluid genders, relationships, and bodies that resist order, category, or completion. Inspired by Margaret Clap, and the many myths of Hermaphroditus.

Art installation featuring a mix of pieces from Riding SideSaddle*, PROPHETIA VETITUM MUNDI, Gods on the Lam, and elsewhere. I also put together an original diptych for this show.

Trans-femme 90’s-alt sad-girl rock

I was invited to perform a Vagina Monologue, and ended up writing my own.

lively debates of the inconsequential

an un-rehearsed play by Greg Wohead

Script for My Body, My Gender rogue Vagina Monologue.

A family struggles to find humanity and normalcy in a world made uncertain and strange after the transformation and “othering” of one of their own. This physical theatre piece imagines what happens on the other side of the iconic door in Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

lively debates of the inconsequential

A queer adaptation of the classic novel

We are not here to flatter egotism, or prop up humbug; we are merely telling the [queer] story. We value what is good in the book; but we believe in the existence of other, and more vivid kinds of goodness.

lively debates of the inconsequential

by Christopher David Rosales

lively debates of the inconsequential

It’s been a month since our country pseudo-elected a bigoted blow-hard for president. I’m heading to DC to protest his inauguration in January, visit friends, and go on a mixed-media resistance tour…

The Denver Quarterly vol 51 no 2 features side-by-side excerpts from Riding SideSaddle*, and Buntport’s adaptation: 10 Myths on the Proper Application of Beauty Products.

A stage adaptation of my novel, Riding SideSaddle*, created with Buntport Theater and Teacup Gorilla.

It’s been a month since our country pseudo-elected a bigoted blow-hard for president. I’m heading to DC to protest his inauguration in January, visit friends, and go on a mixed-media resistance tour…

Founded in 2001, The UMS is an annual three-day celebration of music featuring hundreds of bands across multiple venues.

Try to locate the moon. Look longingly at the sky. Talk to others. Don’t lose track of where you are. This is the invitation from the Warbler to the other canyon inhabitants of the audience.

Award-winning stage adaptation of Riding SideSaddle*, weaving myth with everyday ritual

Riding SideSaddle* has gone vertical – all 250 cards displayed in a gallery show.

A stage adaptation of my novel, Riding SideSaddle*, created with Buntport Theater and Teacup Gorilla.

This interview serves as a follow up to my performance of The Obsolete Book in a Post-Obsolete World as Represented by a Post-Obsolete Book About Dance at the Media Archeology Lab.

Riding SideSaddle* has gone vertical – all 250 cards displayed in a gallery show.

A joint tour for Teacup Gorilla’s debut album The Holes They Leave, and my debut novel Riding SideSaddle*.

We’re excited to be part of the single release for Species of the Stars by our good friends Open to the Hound!

Teacup Gorilla’s debut album

Teacup Gorilla’s debut album

An interview with the insightful Ryo Yamaguchi at Michigan Quarterly Review.

A fragmented memory of friendship – navigating fluid genders, relationships, and bodies that resist order, category, or completion. Inspired by Margaret Clap, and the many myths of Hermaphroditus.

Story panels for PROPHETIA VETITUM MUNDI (available as prints)

An archival rhizome ecology in ten parts, and a reflection on the obsolescence of obsolescence – documented on the cloud, and open-sourced as a defense against post-post-obsolescence.

Not our album, but we did write a few of the songs…

An artist residency at the Media Archeology Lab, working on development of The Post-Obsolete Book.

Part 7 of Fuck the Muse

Part 6 of Fuck the Muse

Part 5 of Fuck the Muse

by James Belflower

Part 4 of Fuck the Muse

Part 3 of Fuck the Muse

Part 2 of Fuck the Muse

a series of articles on creative process

interview with Richard Wall of the Boulder Writers’ Workshop

An archival rhizome ecology in ten parts, and a reflection on the obsolescence of obsolescence – documented on the cloud, and open-sourced as a defense against post-post-obsolescence.

Studied writing and performance with E. Tracy Grinnell, Michelle Ellsworth, and Caroline Bergvall – resulting in early drafts of The Post-Obsolete Book and Riding SideSaddle*.

A novel about new love, moving apart, and what comes next. A love story, and an after-love story – told wiith poetry and pictures.

For a few years, Teacup Gorilla performed & recorded music with Rachel Eisenstat – initially as Iron City, and later as Raven Jane.

For a few years, Teacup Gorilla performed & recorded music with Rachel Eisenstat – initially as Iron City, and later as Raven Jane.

Thanks to Chuck Mee for some borrowed words…

A modern, theatrical interpretation of the Catholic Mass – created by Grapefruit Lab and Teacup Gorilla.

Combining the sacrifice, transcendence, blood, and circumstance of the Catholic Mass with history, live music, science, dance, literature, and pop culture to find a wholly modern communion experience. What we have left is our selves, broken and battered, but surviving together.

Part science lab, part disco, Roller Skating With My Cousin is a lively, dark romp in which synchronized roller skaters build a tower under a star-flecked mirror ball sky.

She is a plain and pensive woman. He is a rather ordinary man who lives in an extraordinary house. This house does algebraic equations and plots violence. One evening, woman, man, and house collide; not all of them survive.

The citizens are easily roused and swayed, as a culture of fear infects the city with the constant threat of execution.

Inspired by Georg Büchner’s unfinished masterpiece, Woyzeck, The LIDA Project reinterprets the story of a young soldier returning from the horrors of war.

A parable play and fantastic spectacle, warning of the dangers of a desperate populace handing over power to a corrupt leader.

We created this site-specific and interactive performance as an opening act for the Dresden Dolls – performed in the lobby.

A parable play and fantastic spectacle, warning of the dangers of a desperate populace handing over power to a corrupt leader.

Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. She was killed when she tried to obstruct a Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer o perated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF.)

Founded in 1995, The LIDA Project is a meta-media art collective dedicated to experimental live performance.

Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) was an American member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who traveled to the Gaza Strip during the Al-Aqsa Intifada. She was killed when she tried to obstruct a Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer o perated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF.)

Countdown to Zero is a political theatre collective established in 2007 by Brian Freeland & Julie Rada. The collective has committed to a series of 10 theatrical works (10 counting down to zero) at which time the collective will disband.

Blues-inflected bright/dark music

A live action comedy, inspired by the movies, and created by our ensemble.

An action comedy for the stage, based on our favorite movie tropes. The script was devised by the entire ensemble, lead by Michelle Milne, Miriam, Emily Swora, and Ben Jacobs. I don’t believe this is the final script…

A sister and brother dig through the rubble of their lives…

OCD and love produce the same chemical in the brain…

a ten minute play, and short film

We hurt ourselves for love…

Based on a series of interviews with Annie in 2003, this play was produced first by Goshen College as a runner-up for the International Peace Play Contest, and then in collabiration with New World Arts for my senior thesis production.

It’s not a great script, but it was my full-length directorial debut.

Another day in the lives of Milo & Sam.

a play in one act, and a short film

a play in one act, and a short film

Reflections of a Mennonite holocaust survivor after the war

a play in one page, and a short short film

A glittering tragedy, a passionate romance, and an internship opportunity.

Some brutal Sam Sheppard…

The play by Wendy MacLeod.

My first forray into professional theater, as a lighting designer for New World Arts.

Founded in 1998 as New World Players, we produced original & alternative ensemble theater for over a decade – along with an art gallery and event space.