Lighting Designer

In this new evening of dance and music, two boundary-breaking duos—choreographers AMOC* member, Bobbi Jene Smith & Or Schraiber, and composer/musicians Caroline Shaw & Danni Lee Parpan (known together as Ringdown)—collide, converse, and create.

“Seven Scenes” at Little Island

Little Island

Orlando’s adventures begin as a young man, when he serves as courtier to Queen Elizabeth. Through many centuries of living, he becomes a 20th-century woman, trying to sort out her existence. An adaptation of the “longest and most charming love letter in literature,” written by Virginia Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space, time, and gender.

Orlando

Pershing Square Signature Center

Public Obscenities explores the pleasures and pitfalls of living in translation as it follows a queer studies PhD student returning to his family home in Kolkata with his Black American boyfriend.

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Public Obscenities

Polonsky Shakespeare Center

NYTW Usual Suspect & Former 2050 Artistic Fellow Hansol Jung‘s Merry Me is an intoxicating queer cocktail of restoration comedy and the Greeks, served with a heavy garnish of ridiculous. NYTW Usual Suspect & Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman directs.

Lighting Designer

Barbara Samuels

Events

Past events

Apr 22, 2025

“Seven Scenes” at Little Island · AMOC / American Modern Opera Company

Apr 2 - May 12, 2024

Orlando · Signature Theatre Company

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