I create object performance and object videos for many different literary and theatrical undertakings.

In 2021, I created and directed object work for Hope Mohr Dance in San Francisco for a live trans-centered dance theatre performance, “Bacchae Before,” which opened at the Joe Goode Annex, and ran again in 2022, with a new interactive object installation, at the Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco. It toured to Johns Hopkins University in Spring 2023 and continues to tour. The 30-minute video prelude, “Before Bacchae Before,” for which I created object video sequences, was an official selection of the 2021 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival.

In 2024 I began two new projects. The first is an experimental adaptation of Homer’s Iliad for puppet and object theatre, in collaboration with poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo and director and choreographer Hope Mohr. It is tentatively entitled Men with Names: A Puppet Iliad. The second project is a combined short book and multimedia project called Diocletian: A Reckless Autobiography.

Also in 2024, my book Life: The Natural History of an Early Christian Universe, an experiential exploration of the intersections between late ancient science, philosophy, and religion came out with the University of California Press. It is available for order in paperback here. You can read the introduction here.

I have run workshops at Stanford, USC, UC Davis, and the University of Michigan on puppetry and on integrating art, play, and research. If you work in an academic setting and would like to host a lecture or workshop on integrating research, performance, art, and play, please feel free to contact me.