IZADORIUS
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DIRECTOR / WRITER / MULTIDISCIPLINARY THEATRE ARTIST
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ABOUT ME
Leading with joy, hope, and curiosity, I strive to cradle the broken, lost, nostalgic, humorous, endangered, and ephemeral souls of humanity. I believe in radical honesty and vulnerability both in process and content. I value the worst ideas in the room to promote a culture of investigative brainstorming.
I have an affinity for work centering queer joy, the working class, the inner clown, and work that has a strong tie to it’s setting. I love a play that uses horror to personify a personal or societal turmoil, or one that uses dystopian themes to reflect on how we engage in today’s world. I pursue work that is engaging and applicable beyond the regular theatergoing audience.
I also aim to entertain. I would hate to bore you. Part of my responsibility is to take care of your time. I seek to inject my work with a vigorous sense of movement and energy. I work with a text to detect it’s rhythm and bring it to the space through music, dialogue, and rigorous timing. I am passionate about the power of spectacle. I use the grand and epic to turn poignant moments into profound sensorial memories. My work features a collusion of comedy and drama. Laughter is my window into tears.
I am passionate about investing in local community and the cycle of mutual aid. I feel strongly about using recycled materials and community resources as tools for storytelling. I let the tools available to me inspire the way the story is told. I let the nature of the space available cultivate the way it is occupied and moved through. Each borrowed object that takes part in a story as a prop or piece of furniture has it’s own rich history to endow into the space as it finds a temporary home in the play.
MY WORK
Directing credits include: The Berlin Diaries (Arts Judaica), Bye Cubed (BYOT Productions), I Got Good at Feeling Bad (Out of Ink Productions), Since We First Met: A Radio Play (Project: Panic), Off the Rails (Mudlark Theater Co.), Sender, How Might We (Carnegie Mellon University), Secret Sauce, Just Out of Reach, The R Word, 69 Love Songs: A Queer Fantasia (staged readings at Carnegie Mellon University).
As a writer, I additionally co-created the musical 69 Love Songs: A Queer Fantasia and I led the devising process for a site-specific adaptation of Death of Orpheus.
Assistant Directing credits include: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (regional premiere dir. Tome Cousin at Carnegie Mellon University), Love and Information (dir. Rebecca Wahls at Carnegie Mellon University), Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Andrew Biliter at Mudlark Theater Co.), The Returning (dir. Lee Peters at Akavit Theatre), Art (dir. Tony Lawry at Theatre Above the Law)
TV/Film credits include: Targeted: A Short Documentary (TREE Labs).
Other Artistic Affiliations: Script Committee Reader Freshly Brewed at The Understudy Coffee & Books and Subtext Studio Theater Company; Clayton in Safe Landing: How The Owls Saved Me at Authentic Chicago Ensemble Performer for This is Art at New Wave Theatre Company; Properties Designer for [Title of Show] at PrideArts.
Relevant Skills: Directing, Devising, New Play Development, Writing for the Stage and Screen, Dramaturgy, Script Reader and Consultant, Music Composition, Stage Management, Sound Design, Props Design, Overhead Projection Shadow Puppetry, Viewpoints, Laban Technique, StageWrite Software, Adobe Premiere Pro, Aspirational Clowning, Dialect Supervision, and Cello.
EDUCATION: Directing Internship (Red Bull Theater), Literary Internship (Vinyard Theater), BFA in Drama (John Wells Directing School at Carnegie Mellon University).
