Here is where I am going post some things I’ve worked on.
During my first week of grad school we had to do one of those exercises where you go stand in an area of the room based on what you want to do with your life. The options were something like Commercial/Broadway Theatre, Academia, Avant-garde, or Something Else. After a few minutes I found myself standing with one other dude in the “Something Else” part of the room. It may seem ridiculous to get a master’s degree in something when you aren’t exactly sure what it is you really want to do, but the more time I spend in the tech world the more I am feeling like this is my “something else”. If one of the options had been, “work on cool new high impact projects with smart creative people while making a great salary, having great benefits, and constantly solving creative problems” I think there would have been more than 2 of us over there.
With that being said, I am still immensely proud of all the work I did in the theatre/live entertainment realm. Here are a few choice snippets from both worlds!
Grown Up Theatre Kids Run The World - check out this article in the NYT. The power of the theatre is alive and well.
I was recently a guest on the Data Standard Podcast
Dropmix
I was lucky to be featured in a couple videos about Dropmix by the Harmonix marketing team. These were fun to make. Links below.
This was the first project I worked on at Harmonix. I was a producer for the character/crowd team and narrative/cinematics. I also did VO casting & direction, motion capture performance & direction, and some writing. I learned a ton from this project and it was a real dream to work on an Oculus launch title. Some reviews:
Few People Will Ever Know How Great Rock Band VR Is- Kotaku
Rock Band VR Shreds The Rhythm-Game Paradigm- Wired
Rock Band VR Is The Dorkiest Game and I Love It- Endgadet
Rock Band VR: It Will Make You Actually Feel Like A Rock Star- British GQ
Rock Band VR
The Walking Dead Experience
Jordan Woods Robinson and I had previously worked together for Blue Man Group.
This was a crazy thing that I worked on in 2015. It was a real fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants kind of adventure. This was before Fyre Festival, but looking back there would have been a lot of Fyre Festival jokes going on. I told director Michael Counts that no matter how many things went wrong, people still seemed to roll through and say good things about it. This job made me start smoking again (I quit a few months later for good) and it was the first time I held a real gun (this had nothing to do with the show and everything to do with the people we had hired). Our entire set up was almost blown away by a storm and in Jersey we had to heat the thing with heaters that I am pretty sure were just jet engines.
The Walking Dead Experience: Behind Its Secret Avant-Garde Theater Credentials- Variety
I am going to just post a bunch of random stuff here that I’ve worked on. It was all wild. It was all a dream. And a lot of it was definitely “something else”. Pics include: “Persona” and “Angel’s Bone” with Beth Morrison Projects. My own shows “The Corsair” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, “Emilie”, and “The Dwarfs”. Winning a softball division championship with Blue Man Group in the Broadway Show League. Amazing hats designed by Machine Dazzle for Pig Iron’s “I Promised Myself To Live Faster”. And several rad months working on a.r.t.’s “Pippin” with circus choreographer Gypsy Snider.
