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TRACES

Spy thriller meets participatory performance art in this immersive, site-specific work. Co-created by Brooklyn-based theater artist Ivan Talijancic and Minnesota-based playwright Rachel Jendrzejewski, TRACES unfolds in real time across downtown Minneapolis.

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The Skriker

The Skriker blends Irish and English folktales to tell the story of an ancient fairy pursuing two young women in 20th century London. A stunningly imaginative play about the consequences humans must face when we exploit the natural world. Produced at the University of Minnesota in 2020.

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Basic Instinct 1:1

Basic Instinct 1:1 was an exact copy of the film Basic Instinct staged as a contemporary performance with all of the male parts omitted. My role was that of Hazel Dobkins a convicted family murdered.

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Something About a Bear

New play by Constance Congdon, commissioned by Theatre Novi Most. Inspired by Russian writer Evgeny Shvartz’s play An Ordinary Miracle, Something About a Bear is a contemporary fairy tale featuring a mischievous wizard, a bear turned into a man, a cross-dressing princess, an epic snowstorm and a hysterical tyrant king; it is a play about the exquisite and terrifying power of love and will delight and inspire audiences of all ages with its magic, humor and heart.

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Picnic on the Battlefield

This play blends one act absurdist plays — Fernando Arrabal’s Picnic on the Battlefield (1961) and Slawomir Mrozek’s Enchanted Night (1952) — into one slapstick-funny and dead-serious narrative, with unique connections between the characters in both pieces.

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M2

M2 begins when the life of Russian poet and playwright Vladimir Mayakovsky ends: his suicide in 1930. From there, a non-linear narrative flashbacks through his relationships with Lili Brik, his lifelong lover, and with Filippo Marinetti, author of the Futurist Manifesto.

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Oldest Story in the World

Novi Most’s adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh is both a reliving of the great story of Gilgamesh and an examination of human limits as we experience them here and now. At the center of the story are essential questions of how to define, and live, a human life.

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