The first photo was from a 5min version at Todd Anderson's monthly Wordhack event, during the open projector.

Ongoing one-person show and research project where new approaches to bodily autonomy are engineered at will, and the distinction between person and place dissolves entirely.

DIY HRT is not for the faint-hearted, but enbies make do. Did you know the constituent parts of PVC are an endocrine disruptor?

Paige Esterly produced yet another excellent ten-minute play festival at Caveat.

This play was starring Adeline Saunders and Venice Ohleyer. I directed it! It used a bunch of PVC pipe, which I suppose is kind of my signature plastic now.

The piece . . . played with language, you could say. #yungDavidIves

The Flip Protocol. with 24 Hour Plays in July 2025! I love making theatre and not sleeping.

directed by Tessa Bagby starring @allison.ye @niraj00971 @saidie.stone @giannamilici

photo credit Danté Charles Crichlow

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A lone ice cream scooper reports for duty. Directed by Emma Gometz. Performed by Cassie Elkin, Isabella Oliva, Nick Turturro, & Mar Urzua.

Photo Credits: Marcus Maddox

Search History by Eugene Lim, an incredibly fun experimental novel that poses the question: "ur dead friend was reincarnated as a cyberdog. wyd?"

Herein lies the fanzine/webzine/perzine I made in SFPC's Reading/Writing/Compiling Zines class, taught by Neta Bomani! It captures some of my favorite parts of the book, and also made me realize how instrumental anshul was in getting me to write plays again, so it's also abt that.

ADHD simulation short film I made for Prospect Heights Art Club's Failed Film Festival. It's called Attention Deficit Hyperant Disorder, and I did an IRL simulation at the brick in april w ?!: New Works!

Starring Khali Sykes and Greg Lakhan. I played myself, in both senses. Xander Browne was the director.

Turns out if you write & perform a play about the worst night of your life, you experience sth called catharsis, thus de-spooking the event & desensualizing it into mythos?? highly recommend

The premise was a scientist who made a pill that turned black people white, basically. But he was sad because his parents called the cops on him. Ah, I was so sincere back then. Makes me sick to my stomach. I redeemed myself in later versions.

Performed at The Tank! Photo credit: Robin Michals