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RECENT Projects
SOFA KING QUEER
A WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL with NOTHING WITHOUT A COMPANY
A vibrant pop-punk musical about fu*king, family, and queer resistance.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Kevin Sparrow
Directed by JD Caudill
Music Directed by Ron Attreau
TWIHARD!
A TWILIGHT MUSICAL PARODY at OTHERWORLD THEATRE COMPANY
DIRECTOR / BOOKS & LYRICS: TIFFANY KEANE SCHAEFER
COMPOSER / MUSIC DIRECTOR: BRIAN RASMUSSEN
Cast album coming soon!
Learn more at: https://www.twihardthemusical.com/
Now available! Stream the cast album on YouTube, Spotify, and more!
About my work.
I create, develop, and produce theatrical experiences rooted in the necessity of community. Often building from original, adapted, or collectively-devised narratives, my artistic work offers symbolic, imaginative landscapes that move between desire and reality, belief and action, cynicism and faith.
I’ve been an actor, director, facilitator, scenic designer, and producer. Additionally, I leverage performance as a form of knowledge-building through applied, community-engaged, and research-based processes. My theatre training is grounded in principles of narrative realism and Meisner Technique, which I often blend with other modes of performance. I’m currently interested in hybrid approaches that fuse theatre, dance, film, and authentic forms of participation.
ORIGINAL WORKS.
Always Greener, a new musical
Creator, Artistic Producer
Alone/Together, a short film
Adapter/Director
Gray Area: a new play about consent
Creator, Director
Held. a dance/theatre hybrid
Creator, Performer
Always Greener
Always Greener is a radically different musical that shatters the barriers between the disabled and non-disabled worlds. Five individual artists, in collaboration with Tellin' Tales Theatre, are creating Always Greener, an original musical that foregrounds the world of people with disabilities, using adaptive and inclusive casting, design, and direction.
Always Greener aims to validate experiences of disability and illuminate better understanding in those without by:
Advocating for the talent and professionalism of people with disabilities onstage.
Busting myths spread through stereotyped representation.
Placing people with disabilities back in the driver's seats of their own stories.
Reframing public understanding of disability as socially-constructed.
Expanding thinking about disability relationships, work, and sexuality.
Visit www.alwaysgreenermusical.org to learn more.
Book by Tekki Lomnicki & Erin Austin
Music & Lyrics by Noa/h Fields
Based on a concept developed with Thrisa Hodits, Jacob Watson, and Tellin’ Tales Theatre
Alone/Together, or Time Passes, or Isn’t it Interesting this Boredom?
a filmic-theatrical quarantine experiment, after V. Woolf.
Adapted and directed by Jacob Watson
Text: To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Music: Under an Ending Sun by krackatoa and Escaping the Past by stacxk From the Free Music Archive
Narration by Alyssa Sorresso
Filmed + performed in isolation by Christopher Acevedo, Vanessa Chung, Rose Connelly, Jordan Koffman, Conrad Kuzmick, JeeYeun Lee, Joe Pinto, Alyssa Vera Ramos, Deanalís Resto, Kelby Siddons, Laura Stratford, and Abby Zan.
Gray Area: a new participatory play on consent
Many of us "get" consent: yes means yes, no means no. But what if the reality is more complicated than that? When our culture lacks a shared vocabulary for active consent, we are left lost in the space between definitions spelled out in black-and-white. Gray Area asks the difficult questions about where our ideas about consent come from, how they get enacted in our lives, and what happens when our reality doesn’t live up to our ideals. How do we navigate these murky waters, and -- when something goes wrong -- how do we, and our communities, heal?
Conceived by Jacob Watson, Micah Bernstein, and Vince Pagan
Written by Micah Bernstein and Elon Sloan
Produced by the FYI Performance Company
Envision Unlimited, May 2017
Directed by Jacob Watson
Lighting Design by Tony Santiago
Space Design by Brandi Lee
Costume Design by Nik Zaleski
Projections Design by Nic Park
Held.
a dance-music-theatre collaboration
Created by Ava Untermyer, Agasthya Shenoy, and Jacob Watson
for HybridSalonHGSE
Performed at the Bok Center for Teaching + Learning at Harvard University, April 2018.
For an archive of past design projects, click here.