Creative
Theater - Directorial
Methusalem: oder der ewige Bürger (2023)
by Yvan Goll
Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, Portland State University
The Yes-Sayer / The No-Sayer (2023)
by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
With Rebecca Stewart; Holden Chapel, Harvard University
by Elaine Chen & Team
Collab24 Devised Theater Festival, online
Der zerbrochne Krug (2022)
by Heinrich von Kleist
Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, Portland State University
Dantons Tod (2019)
by Georg Büchner
adapted by Elaine Chen and Jeffery L. High
With Jeffrey L. High;Players Theater, California State University, Long Beach
Emilia Galotti (2019)
by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Theatre Threshold, California State University, Long Beach
Outlaw Brecht (2016)
by Elaine Chen and Rebecca Stewart
with music by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill
Multicultural Center, California State University, Long Beach
Criminal Lost3 (2017)
by Elaine Chen and Jeffrey L. High
With Jeffrey L. High; Players Theatre, California State University, Long Beach
Creative
Theater - Dramaturgical
Theater - Dramaturgical
Director: Evgeny Titov, Dramaturg: Janine Ortiz
Salzburger Festspiele; Salzburg, Austria
Internship - Dramaturgy (2019)
Head Dramaturg: Theresa Taudes
Schauspielhaus Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria
Internship - The Shakespeare Institute (2018)
Director: Louis Fantasia
The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles; Los Angeles, California
Dramaturgy - Deutsche Hörer! Radio Addresses by Thomas Mann (2018)
Performed by Eric Braeden
Translation & Adaptation with Jeffrey L. High
Villa Aurora; Pacific Palisades, California
Creative Director - New Play Festival - Event A (2018)
Theatre Threshold; California State University, Long Beach
Post-Show Symposium - We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884–1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury (2018)
Directed by Chris Anthony
California Repertory Company & the CSULB German Club; California State University, Long Beach
Assistantship - Dramatic Reading of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (2018)
Director: Louis Fantasia
The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles; City Hall, Los Angeles, California
Seminar Participant - Schillertage Festival (2017)
“Lügen (Oder So)” with Tobias Rausch & “Ist alle Kunst politisch?” with Akin Sipal
Nationaltheater Mannheim; Mannheim, FRG
Assistant Director to Robert Pienz (2017)
On Der Theatermacher by Thomas Bernhard
Schauspielhaus Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Internship - Dramaturgy (2017)
Head Dramaturg: Theresa Taudes
Schauspielhaus Salzburg; Salzburg, Austria
Internship: Dramaturgy, PR & Marketing (2015 – 2016)
Dramaturgy: Eva Wagner, PR & Marketing: Caroline Auchter
Kevin O’Day Ballet, Nationaltheater Mannheim; Mannheim, FRG
Creative
Mixed Media
A Stroll through the Avian Umwelten of Massachusetts (work in progress)
https://sonicmaps.xyz/player/?p=1081
This project consists of five imaginative interventions, inspired by Jakob Johann Freiherr von Uexküll’s concept of animal Umwelten (environments), into the lives of the birds who live on the Harvard Campus. For each text, I take the unique sensoria of a specific bird into consideration and develop narratives intended to interface between human and animal worlds of perception.
Design for a Multi-Media, Multi-Species Theater of the Future
[Images & script forthcoming]
For a seminar on immersive experiences, I developed a plan for a theater designed to bring human and animal “spectators” into a single space through a variety of virtual interfaces. Touch screens, interactive audio / visual installations, and sensors in public and natural spaces, as well as inside of the theater, would allow human and animal actors not only to engage with live performances on their own sensorial terms, but also to shape certain pre-determined variables of spectacle. I also composed a part of a libretto for an opera entitled Anguilla Anguilla, about a woman who falls in love with an eel; this piece was designed to be unperformable except on a stage outfitted with the virtual interfaces described above.
Obituaries for Dead Insects
[Images & prose forthcoming[]
Over two years or more, in an attempt to cultivate attention to and empathy for the small souls around me, I photographed dead insects that I happened to find and composed short prose texts in commemoration of their lives. The forms varied, from obituaries to online dating profiles to murder mysteries, but all approached the insect from an grotesquely anthropomorphic perspective that (I hoped) cast the uniqueness of insect life into relief through its very inappropriateness.
Website for Alexander von Humboldt’s “Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse”
https://physiognomikdergewaechse.wordpress.com/
While reading “Ideen zu einer Physiognomik der Gewächse,” I created a website that paired images of the 16 plant forms that Humboldt argued could be found in all of nature with his explanations.