Research Keywords
- The creative process
- Shakespeare
- Political theatre
- Physical Theatre
- New work
- Movement
- Intimacy Choreography and Direction
- Dramaturgy
- Devised theatre
- Collaboration
- Classics
- Acting, Directing
Creative Research
- Director, THE WRECK OF THE QUEEN THOMASINA by Connor Johnson, Footpath Theatre Company at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Curatorial/Production, completed
Curatorial/Production,
completed
08/19/2023.
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/wreck-of-the... - Director, Pioneer Theatre Company Play-by-Play Festival reading of WILL IT GO ROUND by Matthew Ivan Bennett
Curatorial/Production,
completed
06/10/2023.
https://pioneertheatre.org/season/2022-2023-season... - Director, Salt Lake Acting Company New Play Sounding Series Reading of LET DOWN YOUR HAIR by Matthew Ivan Bennett
Curatorial/Production,
completed
05/01/2023.
https://saltlakeactingcompany.org/about/latest-new... - Director, THE SWEET SCIENCE OF BRUISING by Joy Wilkinson. Produced by the University of Utah Department of Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
02/26/2023.
https://theatre.utah.edu/sweetscience - Director, a developmental production of TO SAINTS AND STARS by Jordan Ramirez Puckett. Produced by Good Company Theatre, Ogden, Utah.
Best friends Sofía and Zoe speak to each other every day. They have since childhood, when the planet was cooler and the possibilities of their futures seemed endless as they stargazed together. Now, Zoe has a master's degree in Theology and serves as the dutiful wife of her husband, a priest. Sofía is a NASA astronaut with ambitions to travel to other planets and save humanity. When Zoe reveals her pregnancy and Sofía becomes scheduled to be on the first manned mission to Mars their faith and friendship is put to the test.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
11/20/2022.
https://www.goodcotheatre.com/to-saints-and-stars - Director, workshop and staged reading of SYMPATHIZER by Serena Collins, the University of Utah Department of Theatre.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
11/17/2022.
https://ne-np.facebook.com/events/studio-115/sympa... - Director, premiere of THE WRECK OF THE QUEEN THOMASINA by Connor Nelis Johnson, produced by Footpath Theatre Co and presented by spit&vigor, Brooklyn, New York.
Two rhyming pirates, Wake on an island, Look for a lifeline, Find the sublime.
Two rhyming pirates, Wake on an island, Look for a lifeline, Find the sublime.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
08/21/2022.
https://www.spitnvigor.com/marooned - Director, Play-by-Play Series reading of MACBITCHES by Sophie McIntosh. Produced by Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
06/11/2022.
https://pioneertheatre.org/season/2021-2022-season... - Co-Director with Rob Scott Smith, premiere of LIMINAL, New Work Project | Stage Play by Troy Deutsch, Based on an Original Story by Also Sisters
A cosmic event leads to a group of strangers being trapped together in a sealed room.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
02/27/2022.
https://theatre.utah.edu/liminal?highlight=WyJsaW1... - Director, the regional premiere of STORM STILL by Gab Reisman. Produced by the University of Utah Department of Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
10/03/2021.
https://theatre.utah.edu/this-season/storm-still?h... - Director, the premiere of RONALD AND EDITH by Connor Nelis Johnson at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Society. Produced by The Fairy Story Society in partnership with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory. Company Jessica Graham and Connor Nelis Johnson.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
08/08/2021.
https://www.greatsaltlakefringe.org/2021-shows/ron... - Director, the Virtual Theatre/Live-Stream premiere of THE NIGHT WITCHES by Rachel Bublitz. Produced by the University of Utah Department of Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
11/01/2020.
https://theatre.utah.edu/this-season/2020-2021-sea... - Director, THE INFLUENCER by Jenifer Nii with Actor Isabella Reeder and Sound Designer Joe Killian. A world premiere short play produced by Plan-B Theatre in their Radio Slam on a KUAA-FM broadcast. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
05/08/2020.
https://planbtheatre.org/radioslam/ - Director, the premiere of AT THE BOTTOM by Christopher Madsen, Adapted from THE LOWER DEPTHS by Maxim Gorky. Performed in Salt Lake City, Utah at The Gateway. Produced by Pinnacle Acting Company.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
03/08/2020.
https://www.pinnacleactingcompany.org - Co-Creator, a re-imagining of THE LIVE CREATURE & ETHEREAL THINGS in ALLEGORY performed in Salt Lake City's historic Capital Theatre| Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory, inspired by the Red Fred Project in collaboration with Ririe-Woodbury Artistic Director/Choreographer Daniel Charon, Playwright Troy Deutsch, Video Projection Designer Nico Ridruejo, Composer John Paul Hayward.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
02/01/2020.
https://www.ririewoodbury.com/performances/calenda... - Dramaturg, MARY STUART by Jean Stock Goldstone and John Reich. Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Director Shelley Butler.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
01/10/2020.
https://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2019-2020-se... - Director, THE ODYSSEY by Homer | Adapted and originally directed by Mary Zimmerman from the translation by Robert Fitzgerald
Curatorial/Production,
completed
11/17/2019.
https://www.theatre.utah.edu/this-season/the-odyss... - Dramaturg, THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT By Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell & Gordon Farrell. Based on the essay/Book by John D’Agata & Jim Fingal. Pioneer Theatre Company. Director Wes Grantom.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
11/16/2019.
https://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2019-2020-se... - Director, Utah Premiere of DEATH OF A DRIVER by Will Snider | Salt Lake Acting Company.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
10/20/2019.
https://saltlakeactingcompany.org/this-season/item... - Director, the world premiere of THE NIGHT WITCHES by Rachel Bublitz. Commissioned and produced by the Egyptian YouTheatre, premiering at the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
08/11/2019.
https://www.egyptiantheatrecompany.org/our-next-sh... - Actor, Reading of THE ROBERTASSEY by Kathleen Cahill | Unitarian Church Fundraiser, Salt Lake City, UT Performance, completed 05/25/2019.
- Actor, Roberta in THE ROBERTASSEY by Kathleen Cahill. Salt Lake Acting Company | New Play Sounding Series Reading. Director Penelope Caywood.
Performance,
completed
04/29/2019.
https://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org/about/itemli... - Co-Creator, THE LIVE CREATURE & ETHEREAL THINGS | Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company and Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory | Choreography by Artistic Director Daniel Charon, storyline in collaboration with Alexandra Harbold and Robert Scott Smith of Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory, and original score created by John Paul Hayward with lyrics by Troy Deutsch.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
02/02/2019.
https://ririewoodbury.com/performances/2018-2019-s... - Director, Plan-B Theatre Script-in-Hand series reading of DONNA
by Jenifer Nii
Company Colleen Baum, Dee-Dee Darby-Duffin,
April Fossen, Yolanda Stange
Stage Manager Cate Heiner
A re-imagining of DON QUIXOTE: modern-day women find and face their own windmills – which, it turns out, warrant more than tilting.
From the author of WALLACE (co-written with Debora Threedy, 2010), THE SCARLET LETTER (2012), SUFFRAGE (2013), RUFF! (2015), KINGDOM OF HEAVEN (2016) and THE WEIRD PLAY (2018).
Curatorial/Production,
completed
10/24/2018.
https://planbtheatre.org/scriptinhandseries/ - Director, a public staged reading of 'At the Bottom' by Christopher Madsen
A flop house in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of a large city is home to a rag-tag group of people struggling to survive from one day to the next. When a mysterious stranger comes to live there, he brings hope to the hardscrabble lives of the residents.
Adapted from Russian playwright Maxim Gorky’s classic play ‘The Lower Depths’, ‘At The Bottom’ shines a light on those living at the margins who are, almost literally, invisible to the rest of society. Reimagined for the 21st century, with elements of the fantastic, the play explores the tension between pessimism and hope and asks which is better, the truth, or the comforting lie?
"At the Bottom" will be produced by Pinnacle Acting Company Fall of 2019
Special Thanks to Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts and Parks, Salt Lake City Arts Council, and Utah Humanities
Curatorial/Production,
completed
10/15/2018.
http://www.pinnacleactingcompany.org - Director, Salt Lake Acting Company's production of 'The Wolves' by Sarah DeLappe
Curatorial/Production,
completed
10/10/2018.
https://saltlakeactingcompany.org/ - Dramaturg, Pioneer Theatre Company's production of 'Oslo' by J.T. Rogers | Director Karen Azenberg
Curatorial/Production,
completed
09/14/2018.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2018-2019-sea... - Director, Pinnacle Acting Company's production of 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare
June 14-16, 22-23, 29-30 at 7:30PM
2:00PM matinee on June 30
Courage Theatre, Westminster College
Curatorial/Production,
completed
06/30/2018.
http://www.pinnacleactingcompany.org - Co-Director with Flying Bobcat Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director Robert Scott Smith, the world premiere production of JUMP by Austin Archer. JUMP was a a Plan-B co-production with Flying Bobcat in partnership with The David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
04/15/2018.
https://planbtheatre.org/jump/ - Actor, Sackerson's Late Night Play Reading: 'There's an Ocean to Swim In' by Matthew Ivan Bennett, Hosted by Sackerson and Plan-B Theatre. It's about a woman who gets pregnant before she's ready, finding yourself spiritually, and unrequited love.
PLAYWRIGHT: Matthew Ivan Bennett
DIRECTOR: Shawn Francis Saunders
ACTORS: Eliza Shoell, Alexandra Harbold, and Robert Nelson
Performance,
scheduled
03/02/2018.
https://www.facebook.com/events/147955699184283/ - Dramaturg, Salt Lake Acting Company's Playwrights' Lab 2018 |DEATH OF A DRIVER with Playwright Will Snider, Director Kareem Fahmy, Actors Cassandra Stokes-Wiley and Patrick Ssenjovu, and Stage Manager Jennie Sant
SLAC Playwrights' Lab 2018 also included: SPARKS FLY UPWARD by Eleanor Burgess
Director - Tlaloc Rivas
Dramaturg - Megan Monaghan Rivas
Actors - Latoya Cameron, Tony Campisi, Merry Magee, Topher Rasmussen, William Richardson
Stage Manager - Ash Crystal
Resource Artists:
Adam Booth (Storyteller)
Mark Bly (Dramaturg)
David Kranes (Playwright/New Play Development Guru)
Camille Litalien (Movement Specialist)
Shannon Robert (Scenic Design)
Steffan Soule (Stage Magician)
Curatorial/Production,
completed
02/25/2018.
https://saltlakeactingcompany.org/new-play-develop... - Actor, UtahPresents' reading of 'Molly Sweeney' by Brian Friel in partnership with the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities and the Department of Theatre | Cast/credits:
Molly Sweeney – Alexandra Harbold
Mr. Rice – Mark Fossen
Frank Sweeney – Nico Cheek-O’Donnell
Reader – Gretchen Case
Dramaturg – Sydney Cheek-O’Donnell
Dialect Coach – Sarah Shippobotham
Director – Robin Wilks-Dunn
Performance,
completed
02/02/2018.
https://utahpresents.org/uncategorized/molly-sween... - Director, University of Utah's Department of Theatre production of 'You Never Can Tell' by George Bernard Shaw | Babcock Theatre
Stage Manager Kallie Erickson
Dramaturg/Assistant Director Kali Scott
Set Design Halee Rasmussen
Costume Design Kerstin Anderson Davis
Hair and Makeup Design Amanda French
Properties Design Arika Schockmel
Lighting Design David Butterballs De Carolis
Sound Design Gavin Yehle
Choreographer Aaron Eskelson
Fight Choreographer Adriana Lemke
Production Dialect Coach Sarah Shippobotham with Kali Scott
Assistant Stage Managers Chloe Mason, Allison Harkness
Communications Maven: Josiane Dubois
Producer: Gage Williams
Company Lindsie Kongsore, Jesse Klick, Payton Bowen, Kalla Nielsen, Mary-Helen Pitman, Morgan Werder, PJ Volk, Louis Hillegass IV, Brandt Garber , Jake Watt, Gavin Yehle, Jacob Weitlauf
Curatorial/Production,
completed
11/19/2017.
http://theatre.utah.edu/productions/you-never-can-... - Dramaturg, Pioneer Theatre Company's regional premiere of the 2015 Tony Award Winner for Best Play, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' A play by Simon Stephens, based on the novel by Mark Haddon
Director Karen Azenberg
Curatorial/Production,
completed
09/30/2017.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2017-2018-sea... - Director, Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory and Sackerson's Co-production of 'How Long Can You Stand on the Train Tracks: a game for two sisters' by Morag Shepherd | Company Merry Magee, Nicki Nixon, Shaun Saunders, Robert Scott Smith | Stage Manager Macarena Subiabre, Sound Designer Adam Day, Lighting Designer Martin C. Alcocer, Co-Producers Dave Mortensen, Alex Ungerman, Special Thanks to Gage Williams and the University of Utah Department of Theatre
Curatorial/Production,
completed
07/16/2017.
https://sackerson.org/project/train-tracks - Actor, Salt Lake Acting Company's production of 'Hand to God' by Robert Askins | Director Christopher DuVal | Company Daniel Beecher, Alexandra Harbold*, Riley O'Toole*, Nathan Vaughn, Amy Ware*
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Performance,
completed
05/14/2017.
http://saltlakeactingcompany.org/this-season/item/... - Director, Plan-B Theatre Company's Script-in-hand series reading of 'The Art of Floating' by Jenny Kokai | Company: Anne Cullimore Decker, Kay Shean, Amy Ware, Benjamin Young | Stage Manager/Reader: Michael Scott Johnson | Director Alexandra Harbold
Curatorial/Production,
completed
02/22/2017.
http://planbtheatre.org/scriptinhandseries/ - Actor, Pioneer Theatre Company’s Play-by-Play reading of 'i' by Jeff Talbott
Director Wes Grantom | Company Colleen Baum, Susanna Florence Risser, Todd Gearhart, Alexandra Harbold | Stage Manager John Geertsen
Performance,
completed
01/2017.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2016-2017-sea... - Actor, a staged reading of 'INFORMED CONSENT' by Deborah Zoe Laufer. Utah Presents in partnership with the University of Utah Department of Theatre and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science.
An electrifying new play by Deborah Zoe Laufer, "Informed Consent" is a powerful examination of medical ethics and the sometimes-murky lines between privacy and research. This staged reading featuring U of U Theatre faculty suggests that we question the lengths to which we might go to save a life.
Performance,
completed
11/18/2016.
https://tickets.utah.edu/uncategorized/informed-co... - Director, University of Utah Department of Theatre's production of SELF DEFENSE, OR DEATH OF SOME SALESMEN by Carson Kreitzer, Performing Arts Building | Studio 115, October 21-30, 2016
Curatorial/Production,
completed
10/2016.
http://theatre.utah.edu/productions/self-defense-o... - Dramaturg, Pioneer Theatre Company presents the regional premiere of THE LAST SHIP | Music & Lyrics by Sting | Book by John Logan and Brian Yorkey | Directed by Karen Azenberg | September 16-October 1, 2016
Curatorial/Production,
completed
10/2016.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2016-2017-sea... - Director/Co-Deviser, the Utah Pride Center's 2016 'Sapphire Spectacular - A Sensory Experience!' presented by Mark Miller Subaru.
Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory provided the entertainment for the Sapphire Spectacular gala dinner and awards presentation for the 2016 Dr. Kristen Ries Community Service Award, and the Pete Suazo Political Action Award.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
06/01/2016.
https://utahpridecenter.org/event/sapphire-spectac... - Actor, Pygmalion Theatre Company production of REMINGTON & WEASEL by L.L. West, Director Robin Wilks-Dunn, April 22-May 7, 2016.
Performance,
completed
05/2016.
http://pygmalionproductions.org/about/past-product... - Director, The Grand Theatre's American Classic Series production of PICNIC by William Inge, March 17-April 2, 2016.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
04/2016.
http://grandtheatrecompany.com/ - Director, the World Premiere production of CLIMBING WITH TIGERS, Adapted for the stage by Troy Deutsch, based on the book by Nathan Glad and Dallas Graham, Salt Lake Acting Company in collaboration with Flying Bobcat Theatrical Laboratory and the Red Fred Project, March 4-26, 2016.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
03/2016.
http://saltlakeactingcompany.org/this-season/item/... - Dramaturg, Pioneer Theatre Company's production of AN INSPECTOR CALLS by J.B. Priestley, Directed by Mary Robinson, February 19-March 5, 2016.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
03/2016.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2015-2016-sea... - Director, the Utah Premiere of Nina Raine's TRIBES at Salt Lake Acting Company, October 21 – November 15, 2015.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
10/2015.
http://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org/this-season/i... - Director, Workshop of Troy Deutsch's CLIMBING WITH TIGERS | Salt Lake Acting Company.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
09/2015.
http://www.saltlakeactingcompany.org/this-season/i... - Director, Salt Lake Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL in the Babcock Theatre, July 9- 12 & 15-18, 2015.
Curatorial/Production,
completed
07/2015.
http://www.theatre.utah.edu/event/twelfth-night/ - Dramaturg, Pioneer Theatre Company's production of I HATE HAMLET by Paul Rudnick, Director Art Manke (March 20-April 4, 2015).
Curatorial/Production,
completed
03/2015.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/season/2014-2015-sea... - Actor, Pioneer Theatre Company's Play-By-Play series reading of SLOW FOOD by Wendy MacLeod, Director Julie Kramer, March 6 and 7, 2015.
Performance,
completed
03/2015.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/press-room/press-rel... - Actor, the world premiere production of TWO STORIES by Elaine Jarvik at Salt Lake Acting Company (February 4-March 1, 2015).
Performance,
completed
02/2015.
http://utahculturalalliance.org/2015/01/19/two-sto...
Presentations
- The 11th Annual Edward Lewis Theatre Festival: Small Theatre, Big Voices. Salt Lake City Main Library. Directed excerpted scenes from Pinnacle Acting Company's production of 'At the Bottom' by Christopher Madsen, adapted from Maxim Gorky's 'The Lower Depths'.
Presentation,
Presented, 02/09/2020.
https://events.slcpl.org/event/3746071 - Flying Bobcat, Pecha Kucha 20x20 | Salt Lake City | Vol. 28
PechaKucha Night v28, a night co-curated with PechaKucha Night SLC and Nathan Webster, Architect/NOW-ID (and former PechaKucha Night SLC co-organizer).
Presentation,
Presented, 05/31/2019.
https://www.pechakucha.com/cities/salt-lake-city/e...
Publications
- Author (2017). The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time | Dramaturg's Notes. [Website/Blog] URL http://www.pioneertheatre.org/blog/2017/09/curious-incident-dramaturgs-note/.
Published, 09/12/2017.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/blog/2017/09/curious... - Author (2017). Breath and Heartbeat. [Website/Blog] URL https://www.facebook.com/notes/sackerson/breath-and-heartbeat/1753528471611712/.
Published, 07/13/2017.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/sackerson/breath-an... - Author (2016). Dramaturgical Notes on 'The Last Ship'. [Website/Blog] URL http://www.pioneertheatre.org/blog/2016/09/dramaturgical-notes-last-ship/.
Published, 09/13/2016.
http://www.pioneertheatre.org/blog/2016/09/dramatu...