Assistant Direction
BY ARTHUR MILLER
Directed by Ivo van Hove
Scenic and Lighting Design by Jan Versweyveld
Costume Design by An D'Huys
Sound Design by Tom Gibbons
Sound Design Associate Alex Twiselton
Associate Directed by Jeff James
Assistant Directed by LILLETH
With Danny Binstock, Catherine Combs, Alex Esola, Andrus Nichols, Howard W. Overshown, Dave Register, Thomas Jay Ryan, Frederick Weller
Performed at Ahmanson Theatre, LA and Kennedy Center, DC
By Robert Whitman
Duration: 30 minutes
Re-performance presented by FIAC at Musée du Louvre, 2017
Assistant Directed by LILLETH
Performers : Clarisse Chanel, Paula Pi, Malika Djardi
Prune Flat, conceived specifically for a proscenium stage, combines live performers, film projection and evocative props. Large film images envelop and flatten performers, who then appear in full three-dimensionality on the stage, echoing the actions they perform in the film. When the actions of a third performer coincide exactly with the film that is projected on her, the line between film and reality dissolves in magical sequences of images.
By 600 Highwaymen
International Tour Assistant Directed + Company Managed by LILLETH
The life of one person told by five girls under the age of 11. EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR intimately investigates the process of transformation over a lifetime. With text by Silverstone and Browde, and original songs by Obie-winning theater artist David Cale, the work intersects storytelling with a distinct, stark choreographic landscape, as these five young performers guide us through a life.
World premiere at FIAF/Crossing the Line Festival in 2014.
Following the world premiere at FIAF/Crossing the Line Festival in 2014, EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR toured internationally for two years at Noordizan, The Holland Festival, The Public Theater, and more. The performers began the project as 9 year-olds and were 12 years old by the final performance.
In Brooklyn, NYC
Houseworld made its debut in 2014. In Houseworld, guests enter an old house and step inside a dream. The basement embodies the underbelly of the psyche, while serenity radiates on the upper floor, and a playfulness inhabits the floors in between. One locked door in the house has never been opened. This door is said to lead to The Light. Due to the arrival of the outsiders, the house’s residents believe that maybe tonight is the night that the door to The Light will finally be unlocked. The project went on to develop into myriad other projects including The Sensitive Ear at Ars Nova and Storybank with The Future of Storytelling.
Direction & Associate direction by LILLETH
At Mabou Mines, NYC
Inspired by the poetry of Marie Howe and William Carlos Williams; writings on PTSD by Bessel van der Kolk, the films of Roy Andersson; the Icarus myth; ornithology and object theory. BADrum seeks to investigate the terrible privacy we all carry with us.
Presented at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in 2015.
Performers: Emily Reilly, Stephanie Hayes Tanya Marquardt and Jack Moran.
Contributing artist: Masha Tsimring, Laura Bernstein and Michael McQuilken
Assistant Directed & Stage Managed by LILLETH
An ornithologist lays dying and hallucinates his way through his repertoire of knowledge. His end of life care nurse harbors dreams of being an horse racing jockey as she tends to his ailing body. Meanwhile, the ornithologist’s wife, desperate to avoid the reality of the situation, spends all her time in the bath, hiding.
BADrum is a dance theater work exploring traumatic memory, voyeurism, privacy and the social codes of a decaying domestic space. Fragments accumulate - BADrum wonders how memory is kept alive; what carries through from before, how the traces live in our bodies and what ails us in an empty room.
At the Flea Theater, NYC
Witten by Niegel Smith + Todd Shalom
Directed by Niegel Smith
Assistant Directed by LILLETH
Featuring Tommy Bernardi, Rachel Lin, Ashton Muñiz, Chris Murphy, Rad Pereira, Brittane Rowe, Isabella Sazak, Ryan Stinnett, and Catherine Woodard, Hye Young Chyun, Taylor Edelhart, Ethan Hardy, Jax Jackson, Matthew Stango, and Jennifer Tchiakpe.
Daniel Soule (scenic design)
Amith Chandrashaker (lighting design)
Claudia Brown (costume design)
Miles Polaski (sound design)
Ethan Hardy (choreography)
Taylor Edelhart (dramaturgy)
Cristina Pitter and Hye Young Chyun (props masters)
Keith Paul Medelis (production stage manager)
Take Care is a participatory performance that investigates the ways we respond to present and imminent danger. This evening-length performance gathers and reconfigures our personal language around emergency preparedness, abandonment, and consolation. Niegel Smith writes: “I wanted to make a piece for our resident acting company, The Bats, that engages them as interpretive and generative artists. I invited my long-time collaborator Todd Shalom (Elastic City) to create a performance that explores The Bats’ most urgent personal and global concerns. So, we’re inviting theatergoers inside a vicious hurricane — a perfect storm to expose the ways we take care of and neglect one another.”
Take Care includes individualized prompts for audience participation alongside scripted moments for The Bats. Audiences will have the opportunity to choose their desired level of participation—they can be on stage or around it.
At the Signature Theater, NYC
By Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Lila Neugebauer
Assistant Directed by LILLETH
Scenic Design by Laura Jellinek
Costume Design by Gabriel Berry
Lighting Design by Matt Frey
Sound Design and Original Music by Brandon Wolcott
Chorography by Raja Feather Kelley
Production Stage Manager: Amanda Spooner