Rain City Projects

In his own personal purgatory French poet Paul Claudel struggles to make sense of his "mad" sister Camille’s life; his love for her as both muse and mentor; and his betrayal of her at her most vulnerable moment. A poetic drama whose structure (a vortex) is inspired by Camille Claudel’s sculpture La Valse.

A young woman must have a late-term abortion, and chaos ensues on several realistic and metaphysical planes.

Plucked from the audience, three contestants live and die their way through a myriad of American incarnations as they compete for the ultimate prize, perfect enlightenment. The entire history of United States becomes their playing field, from Jamestown to the World Trade Center attack and beyond, as they struggle towards their individual goals. In between lives, the contestants visit the bardo realms, wacky worlds between death and rebirth where Stonewall Jackson and Harriet Tubman are husband and wife; and people reincarnate as corporations. Even when things seem like they couldn’t get weirder, they do, as the contestants start to reincarnate as each other and the understanding begins to dawn that enlightenment is now here and nowhere; a trillion light-years and just a blink away.

Stage adapation of John Gardner's outrageous novella retelling the Beowulf epic from the monster's existentialist point-of-view.

A dying playwright writes the first act of a ten-minute play hoping a computer will finish it. With its crew of sub-atomic crew particles, the New You Boat sets sail through a sea of quantum uncertainty on its last mission of kill or be killed versus live and let live.

Two men and two women make up the four voices of this classic fugue, charting the demise of rock star Kurt Cobain and the author’s career as a New York window cleaner.