parade and community performance in Barrydale, South Africa
National Day of Reconciliation, December 2012
created by Handspring Puppet Company with Net vir Pret and Magpie Art Collective
directed by Marina McClure with Aja Marneweck and Karen Zasloff
by Marieluise Fleisser
directed by Marina McClure
CalArts Ensemble Theater, May 2012
design by Drew Foster, Kate Fry, Simon Harding, Anna Cecilia Martin, Jenn Peterson, Erin O'Donnell
featuring Jacob Loeb (Roelle), Megan Rippey (Olga), Sophia Wang (Clementine), Kaiso Hill (Christian), Ernie Long (Peps), Chynna Skye (Hermione), Michael Pignatelli (Berotter), Sandy Simona (Roelle's Mother)
by Aleshea Harris
directed by Marina McClure
workshopped at American Conservatory Theater (January 2014) and Vox Fest at Dartmouth College (July 2014)
nominated for the 2014 Kilroy List
Leisure, part one of the play cycle Leisure, Labor, Lust
by Sara Farrington
directed by Marina McClure
developed and presented at JACK, Brooklyn, NY (August 2014) and presented in the Drawing Room at Edith Wharton's estate, the Mount, Lenox, MA (January 2015)
performers: Alexis McGuinness & Stephanie Regina (The Mount), Megan Emery Gaffney & Erin Mallon (JACK)
photographs by Rob Strong
"Invoking Wharton, they have given their leading woman a strong intellectual and emotional intelligence." "The play moves freely in time...as the heart does." - Kate Abbot, Berkshire Eagle
Leisure is the first in a three-part play cycle inspired by the dramatically contrasting worlds of Edith Wharton and Jacob Riis. Leisure, Labor, Lust explores the class system, sexual politics, decadence, and treatment of mental illness in turn-of-the-century New York.
Unspeakably rich novelist Grace Hunter and her Irish immigrant maid, Lucy take us on an intoxicating replay of dinner parties, theater dates, and romantic missive exchanges as they grapple with the suicide of Grace’s husband Harry. Time is not linear in Leisure, rather is presented in a knot, untangled by the actress playing Lucy, who portrays all the men in Grace’s life in quick succession. Moving and funny, Leisure is a highly theatrical tragedy of manners that reveals itself through experimental movement, psychological gesture, theatrical jump cuts, and multiple character shifts.
adapted and directed by Marina McClure
design by Keith Skretch
workshopped at HOUSE, Los Angeles (October 2011) and Vox Fest at Dartmouth College (July 2013)
a theatrical installation of the David Bowie music video by the same name
written by McFeely Sam Goodman
directed by Marina McClure
featuring Stephanie Regina, Kyle Stockburger, Seth Braley, Gilbert Molina, Justin Montalvo
Columbia University (February 2014) and chashama (June 2014)
a new opera written and composed by Alexander Vassos
conducted by Travis Kane
directed by Marina McClure and Deena Selenow
by Sarah Kane
directed by Marina McClure
created collaboratively with designers Frances Angevine, Nick Benacerraf, Jackson Campbell, Lesley Fairman, Amanda Lee, Erin O’Donnell, Shelly Rodriguez, Ruey Sun, and the cast
CalArts Ensemble Theater, May 2011
an experiment in light
by Martin McDonagh
directed by Marina McClure
design by Shelly Rodriguez, Amanda Lee
featuring Jacob Loeb, Casey Jackson, Ernie Long, Nikhil Pai, Richard Pluim, Amanda Washko, Nora King, Zan Headley
