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2 Days of Cordwainery

@ Colorado Shoe School

Erin and I spent a couple days last week at the Colorado Shoe School in Bellvue, CO – learning, designing, and making our own sneakers. Yes, actual sneakers, fit for wearing, and built from scratch. Only the soles come pre-formed out of recycled plastic.

Pity+Fear (a travesty)

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What does it mean to be a person – to have a body, and live in it – to make choices, and change over time – to tell the truth?

The Better Selfs

–

A Denver-based rock/punk/Americana band featuring members of Teacup Gorilla, Altas, PEZZ, Rat Bites, and Out on Bail.

Monkey Writr

A monkey hitting keys at random for an infinite amount of time will eventually want some help writing Hamlet (or whatever). You’re the monkey. We’re here to help.

Fallout

–

I wrote this at the start of the Iraq war (2003), and later made the short film. It’s been on my mind again during COVID-19 isolation.

Vagina Monologues

– @ It Grows Wild

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

Outside The Room

– @ Denver Center for the Performing Arts

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.

Ersatz Robots

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Trans-femme 90’s-alt sad-girl rock

JANE/EYRE

– @ The Bakery

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.

Some Kind of Resistance Tour

–

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…

User Unfriendly

–

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

The In-Between

–

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.

Underground Music Showcase

–

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

Riding SideSaddle*

– @ SpringGun Press

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.

The Obsolete Book

– @ post-obsolete.com

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.

Raven Jane

– @ BandCamp

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

Iron City

@ BandCamp

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

Script: Missa Populi

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

Missa Populi

– @ PackingHouse Center for the Arts

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.

Teacup Gorilla

since March 2010

Teacup Gorilla inhabits the venues of Denver, CO with dark indie-rock soundscapes and evocative poetry – often compared to early Modest Mouse, Explosions in the Sky, or the Velvet Underground.

Roller Skating With My Cousin

– @ BINDERY | space

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.

A Murder One Less

–

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.

Grapefruit Lab

since August 2009

We want to make art without assumptions – art that humanizes and entertains and challenges and brings people into conversation.

RAIN/ of terror

– @ BINDERY | space

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

Untitled #39 | Dresden Dolls

@ Bluebird Theater

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

The LIDA Project

–

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

(#10) My Name Is Rachel Corrie

– @ Countdown to Zero

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

–

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.

Dirt Circle Dogs

–

Blues-inflected bright/dark music

Script: Bigger Guns III

@ New World Arts

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…

In a Time of War

–

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.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

–

I worked on Antony & Cleopatra with Penny Metropulos and the wonderful OSF ensemble, as a Stage Management Intern. I also got to work with the lighting & electrical department while I was there.

Goshen College

–

I worked as Master Electrician of the college theater and music performance venues, while I studied theater, writing, and visual art.

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.

Everything 'Art'

2 Days of Cordwainery

@ Colorado Shoe School

Erin and I spent a couple days last week at the Colorado Shoe School in Bellvue, CO – learning, designing, and making our own sneakers. Yes, actual sneakers, fit for wearing, and built from scratch. Only the soles come pre-formed out of recycled plastic.

Pity+Fear (a travesty)

–

What does it mean to be a person – to have a body, and live in it – to make choices, and change over time – to tell the truth?

The Better Selfs

–

A Denver-based rock/punk/Americana band featuring members of Teacup Gorilla, Altas, PEZZ, Rat Bites, and Out on Bail.

Monkey Writr

A monkey hitting keys at random for an infinite amount of time will eventually want some help writing Hamlet (or whatever). You’re the monkey. We’re here to help.

Fallout

–

I wrote this at the start of the Iraq war (2003), and later made the short film. It’s been on my mind again during COVID-19 isolation.

Vagina Monologues

– @ It Grows Wild

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

Outside The Room

– @ Denver Center for the Performing Arts

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.

Ersatz Robots

–

Trans-femme 90’s-alt sad-girl rock

JANE/EYRE

– @ The Bakery

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.

Some Kind of Resistance Tour

–

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…

User Unfriendly

–

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

The In-Between

–

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.

Underground Music Showcase

–

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

Riding SideSaddle*

– @ SpringGun Press

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.

The Obsolete Book

– @ post-obsolete.com

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.

Raven Jane

– @ BandCamp

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

Iron City

@ BandCamp

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

Script: Missa Populi

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

Missa Populi

– @ PackingHouse Center for the Arts

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.

Teacup Gorilla

since March 2010

Teacup Gorilla inhabits the venues of Denver, CO with dark indie-rock soundscapes and evocative poetry – often compared to early Modest Mouse, Explosions in the Sky, or the Velvet Underground.

Roller Skating With My Cousin

– @ BINDERY | space

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.

A Murder One Less

–

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.

Grapefruit Lab

since August 2009

We want to make art without assumptions – art that humanizes and entertains and challenges and brings people into conversation.

RAIN/ of terror

– @ BINDERY | space

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

Untitled #39 | Dresden Dolls

@ Bluebird Theater

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

The LIDA Project

–

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

(#10) My Name Is Rachel Corrie

– @ Countdown to Zero

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

–

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.

Dirt Circle Dogs

–

Blues-inflected bright/dark music

Script: Bigger Guns III

@ New World Arts

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…

In a Time of War

–

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.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

–

I worked on Antony & Cleopatra with Penny Metropulos and the wonderful OSF ensemble, as a Stage Management Intern. I also got to work with the lighting & electrical department while I was there.

Goshen College

–

I worked as Master Electrician of the college theater and music performance venues, while I studied theater, writing, and visual art.

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.

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