105 is presenting a dance excerpt of Part 1: Walking Days at FronteraFest.
Presented by Hyde Park Theatre in collaboration with Scriptworks, FronteraFest is one of Austin's longest running Fringe Festivals, now in its 24th year of highlighting new, alternative and offbeat theatre.
Faster Than Bullets was presented at Here Arts Center on February 14, 2017 as part of Sanctuary, presented by Less Than Rent Theatre.
The reading featured Amanda Salazar and Leslie Malaika Lewis with Harrison Densmore directing.
Faster Than Bullets has been named a Semi-Finalist in NYCPlaywright's Women in the Age of Trump.
We did a closed reading of 893 | Ya-ku-za at 440 Studios, this past week. So great to have such brilliant minds in the room.
Huge Thanks to: Holly Chou, Rachel Lin, Kristan Seemel, and Sarah Haber.
Here's to making new work better.
Director Graham Schmidt asked me to step on to be Playwright-in-the-Room for the devised piece, "The Sonnets Project."
“The Sonnets Project” is an immersive, site-specific storytelling experience that invites audiences to consider, “If you had a chance to make a statement as you crossed over into the next life, what would you say?” Infused with music, dance, physical theater, and tons of love, “Sonnets” takes as its springboard the life of Wendy Johnson, a character from Jose Rivera’s play, "Sonnets for an Old Century." This is a performance about what we hold on to, and what we are able to leave behind, in an imagined waiting room between this life and the next.
The Sonnets Project ran from November 16-18th, 2016 at The University of Texas at Austin.
Director: Graham Schmidt
Playwright-in-the-Room: Daria Miyeko Marinelli
Scenic Designer: Iman Corbani
Lighting Designer: Alex Hanna
Costume Designer: Lirit Pendell
Ensemble: Miles, Agee, Jacob Basquez, Darlesia Carter, Jose Alejandro Figureoa, Oluwaseun Samuel Olayiwola, Elise Peterson, Tori Robertson, Hunter Sturgis, Oktavea Williams
Kana Hatakeyama and Isabella Sazak in Faster Than Bullets' debut at The Oneness Project.
Faster Than Bullets is part of the 2016 Going to the River Festival!
It will be performed on Wednesday, July 16th, at 7pm at Ensemble Studio Theatre, with the talents of Leslie Lewis and Amanda Salazar, with Elizabeth Van Dyke directing.
Untameable is a finalist for the 2016 Dionysia New Play Competition, sponosred by Khaos Company Theatre. An excerpt of the piece will be presented during the the New Play Competition, and the winning play will receive a full production. It will be directed by James Mannan, and will be performed Friday May 20th and Saturday May 28th.
If you're in Indianapolis, IN- check it out!
A short piece I wrote called Coax Me is being performed as part of Rising Circle's Spectrum Series, "Love in Living Color." The event will be happening on February 9th, at Jimmy's No. 43.
It'll be featuring the talents of Oladimeji Akinwande, Siho Ellsmore, Kevin R. Free, and Matthew Barbot, with Kana Hatakeyama directing.
Would be delighted to see you all there!
A Serialized Version of Daria's Red Runs The Stories, called Who I Killed for You is playing at The Flea as part of #serials! It's starring Crystal Arnette, Hye Young Chyun, and Brendan Sokler, with Kristan Seemel directing.
You can catch it this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 11pm. It will be awesome.
And maybe next week, IF it gets voted back.
Come out and support!
Guys, it's finally happening. Love & Diamonds & 5 Years of Rewriting. And here we go.
The cast honors me, the design astounds me and it's a cutting good time.
Grab your tickets here! Because who ever said no to an immersive diamond heist?
See you there.
More Info about Untameable (like, what it's actually about) found here.
Untameable is a co-pro between The Unsoft War & Highly Impractical Theatre.
Faster Than Bullets will be presented on July 26, 2015, at Access Theatre as part of The Oneness Project, an collection of theater dedicated to social justice. The piece examines how to right a wrong, and asks what superheroes look like when justice itself is a murky term. Faster Than Bullets will be directed by Erin Daley, and features Kana Hatakeyama and Isabella Saka.
After You will be going up in Carrboro, NC as part of 10x10 In the Triangle, a short play festival presented by The Arts Center. Show runs July 10th-26th.
Here's the whole line-up!
* Broken by James McLindon directed by David Berberian
* Work by Catherine Castellani directed by Tamara Kissane
* As We Knew It by L. Robert Westeen directed by Hope Alexander
* Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? by Jack Karp directed by Monet Marshall
* Alban’s Garden by Rich Espey directed by Brook North
* Two Mothers at a Roadside Cafe by Allan Bates directed by Gregor McElvogue
* Couples Therapy by Matt Crowley directed by Meredith Sause
* After You by Daria Miyeko Marinelli directed by Laurel Ullman
* The Third Person by Dan Borengasser directed by Jules James
* Stop/Frisk by Rich Rubin directed by Lormarev Jones
Untameable was asked to the next round of submissions in Theatricum Botanicum's Seedling Program, a Development Series for Playwrights, out in Topanga, CA. Stay tuned for more!
After You was named a Semi-Finalist in the 10 by 10 in the Triangle Short Play Festival in Carrboro, NC!
The Louboutin was presented at plumage.'s 5-10: Still Winter on March 9, 2015.
It featured Irene Rivera & Rachel Lin and was directed by Eric Powell Holm.
It was an evening of 6 10-minute plays featuring the talents of the plumage. writers. It was a packed house and evening full of connective lines and references to the cold. Thanks to everyone who came out!
We Are Samurai is being published in Fourth Wall Review's 2014 Winter Issue. Fourth Wall Review is a print and online journal of plays, essays, interviews, audio, film and art.
Check it out here!
It's happening. Elana McKelahan of Highly Impractical Theater and I are teaming up to bring you an amazing immersive devised piece of theater. Coming to a theater near you, likely in Spring of 2016. Or so. We'll see.
But until then, check back here for updates/photos/and snippets as we work to bring you a piece of theater all about our American values, mythologies and history. It's going to be insane, unbelievable, and a whole lot of everything. Much like our nation itself.
Huge congrats to Deborah Randall, Venus Theater, and the AMAZING cast of We are Samurai for this lovely accolade. Y'all ARE the best.
Thanks to everyone who came out to plumage.'s first 5-10: Loving & Leaving!
It was night full of great work, exciting stories, and one very full theater. My piece After You, was presented alongside some truly excellent work. Lesson: Relationships are hard. Or to quote the indelible Taylor Swift, life makes love look hard.
You all rock. Check out some photos from the event.
After You will be part of plumage.'s 5-10: Loving and Leaving, a night of 5 10-minute plays based around a theme. Karen Eilbacher will be directing the amazing talents of Rachel Lin, Matthew Jeffers, Jordan Ho, and Lynnese Page. It should be a spectacularly fun night- come check it out!