Real-time audience voting restructured the reading as it unfolded.
An interactive installation reading at Maya Man's 442 Heart Gallery, during Lavender Town, a one-night only haunted tech exhibit. Audience members could vote to augment & reconfigure the mechanics of the piece in real time. A cybernetic play reading where the audience's agency as spectator sits at the forefront.
Real-time audience voting restructured the reading as it unfolded—jumping scenes, reading backward, swapping performers, and allowing audience members to trade places with the cast. Crucially, the audience members never knew precisely what they were voting for.
This version starred Greg Lakhan, Temidayo Amay, BT Hayes, and Amalia Mayorga. We went for two 90 minute chunks, which was too long lmao.
A pseudo-Catholic mass reconciling loss, internet intimacy, and generational trauma via laptop puppetry.
Directed by Emma Gometz, supporting roles played by BT Hayes & Maya Man (as website god, naturally)
Performed in ANT Fest at Ars Nova, as well as in Soho Playhouse's Lighthouse Festival, where it did NOT go to round 2. Earlier versions appeared as stand-up with Pure Chaos Comedy, and at the Spade Collective's Aces Wild Festival.
Join Archbishop Beige of the Website Evangelism movement in celebrating the joyous intimacy of websites, alongside the more somber offering of their only begotten laptop to the realm beyond. A pseudo-Catholic mass reconciling loss, internet intimacy, and generational trauma via laptop puppetry. HTTP!
It is a laptop puppet show in celebration of Website God (HTTP) and a pseudo-catholic meditation on grief (jesus was the original planned obsolescence). It's also stand-up comedy sometimes. Honestly still really hard to explain what it is lol
Ticket proceeds were donated to Friends of the Congo. The ghost in the machine is black.
ironic how I procrastinated the play abt procrastination
The script didn't exist til like a week and a half before the show when the last-minute panic kicked in, so we literally pulled this off with one rehearsal (typicaallll)
Performed by Karen Xia, Isabella Oliva, Sarah Doh, & Alex Beige
The ableist tropes were inspired by Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism, and the play was mostly us leaning really hard into those wrt adhd, which was very fun. more irony-poisoned theatre on the horizon !
yada yada post-irony yada yada metamodernity etc etc I read a book on disability studies wow so ironic how I procrastinated the play abt procrastination insert witty ending here
Photo Credits Lee Rayment
The edgiest play about racism ever written.
During The Makers' Ensemble's Short Play Fest. Directed by Sam Morreale.
The edgiest play about racism ever written. Black suffering is a spectator sport in this country, and during this play I became Lebron James
Of spectating, not of suffering. After all, why shouldn't I too profit from the artistic exploitation of my own trauma? THAT is what true liberation looks like. REAL art. Surrendering to mainstream liberal fantasy . . . wow !
It's an inversion of the previous play, embracing cheeky internet-born nihilism to form a faux-anarchist origin story of "black" "liberation". I still play myself, but this time ironically, I guess. You had to be there.
Now a full-length piece called Blushing Milk [OTC], In Vivo.
A faerie neurosurgeon treats an insomniac with dream therapy
This was performed at Fucked-Up Play Fest, created by Paige Esterly!
Starring BT Hayes and I, and directed by Jordan Allyn.
This treatment is NOT approved by the FDA, naturally, as any treatment existing outside the American pharmaceuticals industry will huwrt wittle big pharma's pwofwits ;'(
Photo Credit: Madison Scheps
