A solo show inspired by the TikTok algorithm, exploring the performance-of-self we practice online for a tale of religion, celebrity worship, the perverse, and the stupid. On TikTok, the algorithm creates a “For You Page” (or FYP) composed of short videos that appeal to your tastes. FYP borrows the deliciousness and compulsivity of TikTok to tell a bizarre story of Disney Adults radicalized by Scientology, viral preachers and true crime enthusiasts, the mysterious disappearance of Nicole Kidman, random facts, and the growing underbelly of TikTok where babies and celebrity organs
are sold.
6/21/23, 6/23/23: The Brick
6/25/23: The Tank
2/22/24, 2/23/24: Aces Wild @ Luv Story Bar
8/17/24: Dartboard's LiFest @ Center at West Park
12/18/24 - 12/21/24: The Brick
A comic blasphemy exploring bottom and femme erasure, and a two-thousand year old book that still controls our narrative. When a monk named Haimish is kicked out of the monastery for being a bottom, they begin communicating with their literal asshole, who claims to have written The Bible. Haimish’s asshole reveals femmes and bottoms of old who have been erased from Biblical scripture. But what happens when the Top Monks learn that Haimish’s asshole is doing more than taking cocks? What follows is a reckoning with The Bible’s most hateful verses, and a witless monk’s journey toward enlightenment.
July 23, 2022: Dixon Place
A story of sacrifice, lineage, and forgiveness, which layers a podcast in the future, voicemails left over a period of 20 years, and conversations with the dead. Primarily it is the story of Asher Rhys, who marries Lukas Mellevold at 18, is a widower by 29, and spends his thirties and forties trying to hold on to his son Rott—unfortunately Asher has no legal or biological claim to Rott, and must suffer the indignities of his psychic in-laws in order to stay in his son's life.
July 22, 2017: wild project
October 24 + 25, 201: the tank
Photo by Liz Rogers
While the country watched the Supreme Court legalize gay marriage nationwide, Thibodaux, Louisiana was gripped by the trial of serial killer Brando Gierke. Brando's Dahmer-esque spree claimed the lives of twenty-two men, including Thibodaux's own Tommy Watkins. Jasper Lange, a virgin approaching thirty, dreams of a pilgrim-themed wedding even though he's only ever kissed one man: Tommy Watkins. Confused, lonely and in mourning, Jasper sends a note to Brando, beginning a correspondence that challenges Jasper's perceptions of esteem and love.
06/19/16, 06/24/16, 06/26/16, 07/07/16, 07/09/16: Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory
After leaving his last foster home, Nixon Eyre follows a man with a mullet into the mountains for an adventure. They end up engaged but, before Nixon can marry his Mullet Man, he has to break a promise to a vampire from his Midwestern past. A tale of gall and wormwood. Of train stations, of Jane Eyre and Marilyn Monroe. And a gay guy who was named after Richard Nixon to piss off his Kennedy-voting grandparents. But he was a foster kid so he never really knew them anyway.
8/17/14, 8/19/14, 8/21/14, 8/22/14, 8/24/14, 9/4/14: Theater for the New City
Photo by Liz Rogers