CREATIVE PRODUCER
…OR “COLLABORATIVE CURATOR”
I am a freelance Collaborative Curator. I have worked professionally as a Creative Producer, Line Producer and Executive Producer.
I enjoy meticulously composing teams based on talent, experience, and energetic affinities. I have curated full length theatrical productions, one act plays, concerts, and events.
I specialize in producing site-specific performances and events in non-conventional theatrical settings. I have presented work in an Art Gallery, a Warehouse, a Coal Barge, a park, an abandoned house on Governors Island, and in the basement of a church.
I care about representation and theater accessibility deeply. For both audiences and artists.
See below some projects I got to Produce!
“the leg.” BY notamuse theater (MAY 2025)
I am Line Producing “Dead Awaken”, a surrealist experimental theater movement piece, produced by Samieva Theater, created and directed by Sophie Amieva, premiering at Mitu580 in May 2025
ELLEN WINTER’S “YIKES” ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT AT JOE’S PUB (MAY 2024)
Another fabulous collaboration with one of my favorites, Ellen Winter! I Co-Produced and assisted Ellen in curating the album release concert of “YIKES”, at Joe’s Pub, What a blessing to get to follow an artist’ journey from conception to the stage. I Art Directed the album’s cover and all of the singles’ covers, and line produced another concert of hers at C’mon Everybody last fall. You can now listed to YIKES on all music platforms!
“CHRISTIE” at the Waterfront Museum (October 15-23, 2022)
A site-specific, eco-feminist reimagining of Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize winning play ANNA CHRISTIE. Produced by eco-theatre company On The Hook. An immersive re-imagining of a classic American play, told through an “eco-social” lens. Audiences climbed aboard the Lehigh Valley Barge #79 docked in Red Hook, Brooklyn NY, to unpack how humankind’s domination of the Earth is echoed in patriarchal attitudes past and present.
“ For a play set aboard a barge being performed aboard a barge that existed when the play debuted 101 years ago…feeling fully transported was just what the doctor ordered.” — Brad Vogel, REVIEW - Little Cat Feet…With Claws: Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie Takes to Sea in Red Hook
CREATIVE TEAM
Federica Borlenghi (Casting Director & Co-Producer), Nathan Mullen (Stage Manager), Raphael Anastas (Press & Marketing Consultant), Michi Zaya (Social Media Manager & Graphic Designer), Alyssa Chetrick (Music Director/Performer), Nathan Mullen (Stage Manager), James Vincent Murray (Production Manager), Adrian Yuen (Lighting Designer), Patricia Marjorie (Scenic & Props Designer), Jules Peiperl (Costume Designer), Alex Allwine (Fight Coordinator), Jenn Robbins (Associate Producer/Community Teaching Artist), Malikka Advani (Production Assistant). Directed by theatrical curator Nicky Maggio (N/they/them)
CAST
Rick Benson, Covi Loveridge Brannan, Mike Sause as the leads, and Alyssa Chetrick and James Vincent Murray in the ensemble.
“REMINISCENCE”, DEVISED PIECE, ITALYTIME CULTURAL CENTER COMMISSION
In February 2022, I was commissioned by the Italytime Cultural Center to curate a project I have been wanting to develop in a while. I grouped 6 international actresses aged 21 to 36, and lead a community-based experiment investigating themes of language, cultural expression, and familial separation, this piece invites audiences to consider what it means to exist between places called "home". I ended up curating a lyrical sensorial piece featuring music and movement to highlight the confusion and ecstasy of translingual communication, and a key aspect of living abroad: gaining fluency in a new language at the expense of your mother tongue. On “Reminiscence”, I worked as Producer, Director, Writer, Casting Director and Costume Designer. It is thanks to this experience that I discovered how much I enjoy curating events from head to toe, and delivering compelling and visually cohesive work.
CREATIVE TEAM
Covi Loveridge Brannan (Dramaturg & Director of Community & Sustainability), Clara Wiest (Movement Direction), Julia d’Angelo (Choreography) Adrian Yuen (Lighting Design), Marieli Pereira (Graphic Designer)
CAST
Dorina Amina Abubakar, NiKi Chernitska, Tania Kass, Maria Müller, Michi Zaya, Juana Zavalía.
“HERE WE GO”, a Site-Specific THEATER PRODUCTION Company
I was the founding Co-Artistic Director at HERE WE GO, a Site-Specific theater company, where I served as Creative Producer from 2018 to 2021. The company was a platform for emerging artists based in NYC, focused on producing summer and winter short play festivals, featuring live music.
With HERE WE GO, I creative produced 2 in person festivals, in the basement of a church in the West Village, and in a Warehouse in Bushwick. We premiered 8 original short plays, and featured around 50 artists based in NYC. After receiving over 300 submissions for our second operating year, we launched a reading series at Areté Gallery in Greenpoint, and presented 4 short new plays.
With the global pandemic, we went virtual, and produced a lockdown-themed 24h Zoom Festival, featuring various artist from all over the globe. We were featured on Italian and Brazilian magazines and on the Argentine news. We then produced a second iteration in response to the Black Lives Matter protests, offering 5 black writers space to process, mourn and heal through storytelling and community. Our last iteration was dedicated to writing stories for kids.
The company was dissolved shortly after, as the team aspired to grow in different directions, and as I cared to not contribute in making indie theater inaccessible to young artists.