Artistic Statement

My work emerges from the intersection of experimental theater, puppetry traditions, and literary adaptation. Working as a director and playwright, I develop projects through extended collaborative processes with designers and performers, allowing form to emerge from material exploration rather than predetermined concepts.

I am drawn to banned, suppressed, or forgotten voices — writers whose work explores how authoritarian or technological systems erode imaginative life and cultural memory. I’m influenced by the Czechoslovak scenography of Josef Svoboda and Bread and Puppet Theater’s scale and materiality, as well as writers who interrogate systems of control — Wharton, Forster, Zamyatin, Kafka, and Pinter.

Adapting literature from the past provides aesthetic distance — audiences watch characters navigate dilemmas in times and places far from their own, giving them permission to witness drama rather than defend against it. This distance creates space for genuine inquiry.

Noise/Quiet marks a shift toward original playwriting within ensemble processes — authoring text rather than adapting it. Moving forward, I aim to create theater where writing, directing, and design blur into collaborative composition: work that insists on sustained attention in a culture of distraction, and offers the theater as a space for shared presence and listening.