other projects

I am fundamentally a multimedia artist, even if writing has remained my chief passion. I perform and create music, I dance, I dabble in photography & other visual arts, I act, I direct, and I am an experienced theatrical lighting designer. I thrive on rhythm, passion, violence, drama, disturbance, and color. Here is a CV of my non-written work.

Theatre

With Flat Earth Theatre (Boston):

  • Pygmalion, 2014 (director, script adaptation, assistant lighting designer)
  • What Once We Felt, New England premiere, 2014 (lighting designer)
  • The Memorandum, 2013 (language consultant)
  • The Pillowman, 2012 (light board operator)
  • Pirate Lives! The Musical!, world premiere, 2012 (cast, dialect coach)
  • Copenhagen, 2012 (language consultant, light board operator)

With the Derryfield Summer Repertory Theatre (New Hampshire):

  • Bat Boy: The Musical, 2009 (lighting designer)
  • All Shook Up, 2009 (lighting designer)

Other:

  • Overhire work for I.A.T.S.E. (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) Local 11, 2013-2014 (stagehand)
  • Bard Summerscape Music Festival, 2008 (lighting crew)
  • Bard College Electrics Crew, 2006-2009, training under John Musall, former lighting designer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, independently produced, 2006 (director)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest, independently produced, 2005 (director)

Modeling & dance

For a few years, I took a journey into modeling & dance on Boston’s alt/goth scene. These activities are now on pause, but my alter ego appeared in:

  • Xmortis @ TT the Bear’s/The Middle East, 2015-2018 (go-go dancer)
  • Alternative Culture Couture @ Boston First Night 2015, a multimedia fashion show & burlesque organized by Brooke Morgan, 2014 (runway model)

Music

Pending.

Visual arts

Pending.

Languages

One day I hope to get back into conlangs (constructed languages), but in the meantime, here’s a rundown of exactly which languages I speak, since some people seem to get curious about this.

English – fluent, native speaker; several accents at varying degrees of realism
Swedish – proficient; best at reading/writing; actively studying
French – highly proficient with previous borderline fluency
Russian – intermediate level
Welsh – beginner level; actively studying
Mandarin – beginner level
Spanish, German, Italian, and a handful of other Romance, Germanic, or Slavic languages – rudimentary listening/reading comprehension and phonetic confidence
Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, possibly some others – morphosyntactic familiarity and faint phonetic confidence
Arabic – tried it and have forgotten nearly all of it, but one day…

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