Choreography for Theatre

Peter and the Starcatcher

Director: Gillian eaton
Credit: Movement Coach

Peter and the Starcatcher is a play by Rick Elice. with music by Wayne Barker and based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. The play was directed by Gillian Eaton and presented by the Department of Theatre & Drama at the Power Center, Ann Arbor, MI December 8-11, 2016.

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Mr. Burns

Director: Daniel Cantor
Credit: Choreographer Act III, Movement Coach

Mr. Burns, a post-electric play is a dark comedy by Anne Washburn. The play was directed by Daniel Cantor and presented by the Department of Theatre & Drama at Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI February 16-19, 2017.

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Sense and Sensibility

Director: Priscilla Lindsay
Credit: choreographed 5 transitional scenes

Sense and Sensibility is a classic novel by Jane Austen adapted by Kate Hamill. The play was directed by Priscilla Lindsay and presented by the Department of Theatre & Drama at Arthur Miller Theater, Ann Arbor, MI October 3-13, 2019.
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Men on Boats

Directed by Emily Lyon
Written by Jaclyn Backhaus
Credit: Choreographed 6 scenes, Movement Coach

In 1869, a team of 10 men led by naturalist John Wesley Powell set out on an expedition to catalogue the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon—the first white settlers to do so. In 2015, playwright Jaclyn Backhaus set out to satirize the expedition and its bold yet arrogant explorers in a comedic tour-de-force that Time Out New York called a “thrilling, gender-flipped slice of manifest destiny.”

With a cast made up entirely of women, Men on Boats pokes fun at what New York Magazine calls the explorers’ “cockiness and cluelessness” in their attempts to exert their control on an unfamiliar (and already populated) environment. “The tone is comic, but never cute or camp,” says the New York Times. “And ultimately, you feel, the play respects its bold if fallible pioneers, in all their natural bravery and fearfulness.”

Antigone

Directed by Sam White
Credit: helped with a couple of scenes

In one of the most compelling pieces of classic theatre, Sophocles tells the tale of Antigone, daughter of Oedipus and sister to Eteocles and Polyneices, former rulers of Thebes who have just battled to the death. In their absence, their uncle Creon has ascended the throne and declared it illegal to bury the rebel Polyneices. Antigone refuses to obey Creon’s order, setting off a tragic conflict of morality vs. law, cruelty vs. love, and man vs. woman. Guest Director Sam White (founder of Shakespeare in Detroit), who led the Theatre & Drama students in last year’s production of Romeo & Juliet, will return to helm this production. David Mulroy, Professor of Classics Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, faithfully reproduces the literal meaning of Sophocles’ words while also reflecting his verbal pyrotechnics in this translation from 2013. Using fluid iambic pentameters for the spoken passages and rhyming stanzas for the songs, it is true to the letter and the spirit of the great Greek original.