Instructions for a Séance A DIY magic show for stay-at-home moms and anyone else who’s considered escape. Part seance, part historical drag Instructions for a Seance is one woman’s attempt to contact and resurrect the late great escape artist Harry Houdini. Inspired by the Houdini archives at The Harry Ransom Center Instructions is a compact shiny diamond … Continue reading In Development
Plays
Survivors, an Alamo Play Survivors, an Alamo Play is based on the historically documented group of women, children and enslaved people who survived the battle of the Alamo. An epic historical drama told by a diverse ensemble of people who didn’t make it into the history books, it’s also an intimately drawn look at the … Continue reading Plays
In collaboration
NEXT YEAR PEOPLE Bender/Mars/Reisman Part choral narrative, part group fabulation, NEXT YEAR PEOPLE follows three people as they build a life together on an abandoned island in the Azores. Grappling with the ecstacy, ugliness, and awkward intimacy of collaboration, NEXT YEAR PEOPLE irreverently charts the making and unmaking of a new society: an interrogation of … Continue reading In collaboration