Directing
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Murder in the Key of Death
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The New York chapter of Opera On Tap has commissioned composer/librettist team Sankaram – Reese to create an environmental, operatic, Agatha Christie style murder mystery. Our preliminary workshops on the piece have received an astounding response and the premiere has been tentatively scheduled for Spring of ’14.
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Viva Pablo Neruda
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Voice Afire’s My Life with Pablo Neruda is an original “Pocket Opera” Written and composed by Ramond Leudeke which tells the story of the revolutionary Nobel Prize winning poet and his long suffering wife Matilde.
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Yahweh’s Follies (developmental readings)
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By Rob Reese Composed by Eric Brenner and Matt Schloss The Musical Comedy Revue Of Biblical Proportions! Our developmental process included a series of readings with a divinely talented cast. Click here for info on our appearance at the 2013 Ars Nova ANT Festival
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Survivor: Vietnam!
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By Rob Reese This ripe, ribald parody of reality television puts a group of eager contestants in the middle of the War in Vietnam, where they vie for a $1 million grand prize, if they survive. Read the script at indie theater now
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Frankenstein
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Adapted for the stage by Rob Reese Original music by Weldon T. Anderson A text-faithful, experimental, music and movement rich adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterwork presenting The Monster as a psychologically divided chorus. The show has been subsequently licensed and produced in Wisconsin and Malaysia. Read the script at indie theater now
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Keanu Reeves Saves the Universe (NYC)
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By Rob Reese New York, NY “Nothing less than theatrical alchemy.” ” A kind of gay fantasia on Keanu Reeves Themes” -J. Claude Deering, OffOffOnline
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The Flatiron Scriptless Theater Laboratory
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Improvisation New York, NY The Flatiron Lab is a collective of theatrical improvisers, musicians, and dancers combining to create an immediate and unique “total theater piece” without a script.
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In Search of Red River Dog
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By Sandra Perlman A striking naturalist drama about young Ohio woman’s journey beginning with nursery rhymes and ending with the confrontation of her husband’s fears and lies, her mother’s manipulation and her father’s lost dreams.
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Something Different
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By Carl Reiner The hilarious absurdist comedy featuring a semi-naturalistic 1930’s kitchen, a very naturalistic dead turtle, and two complete sets of real life twins!
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The Tempest
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By William Shakespeare Four Beers + Four Bars + One Bard = The New York Shakespeare Exchange’s ShakesBEER pub crawl!