Theater

DRAMATURG
  Songs My Mother Never Taught Me, music-theater piece by Deborah Karpel.
  Dixon Place, NYC, 2011.

DIRECTOR
  The Pork Chop Wars, performance novel by Laurie Carlos, University of Texas/Austin.
  Co-sponsored by UT's Center for African & African-American Studies & Department
  of Theatre & Dance, 2005.

DRAMATURG & CO-WRITER
  The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln, music-theater piece by Jenny Romaine.
  NY premiere: produced by Great Small Works at La MaMa, NYC, 2000.
  World premiere: Ashkenaz Festival of New Yiddish Culture, Toronto, Canada, 1997.
  Reviews

DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG
  Life on a Whaleship. Edited original 1851-1853 diary by Enoch Carter Cloud
  & directed dramatic reading by actor Michael Normandy, Fine Arts Work Center,
  Provincetown, MA, 1992.

DIRECTOR
  Coyote Looks Into His Mind, performance piece/sand painting by Duane Slick,
  Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, 1991.

WRITER & PERFORMER
  Pelvis III, performance piece. Laurie Carlos, director. Cast: Samuel L. Jackson,
  Laurie Carlos, Deborah Artman. Tin Pan Alley, NYC, 1988.

CO-DIRECTOR
  Organdy Falsetto, performance piece by Laurie Carlos. Cast: LaTanya Richardson,
  Terria Joseph, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurie Carlos. BACA
  Downtown, Brooklyn, NY, 1987.
  Review

WRITER & PERFORMER
  I Catch Her Mid-Swing, performance piece. Laurie Carlos, director. Cast: Ruben
  Santiago-Hudson, Terria Joseph, Deborah Artman. The Poetry Project, NYC, 1987.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
  Three Views of Mt. Fuji by Ntozake Shange. Laurie Carlos, director. New Dramatists,
  NYC, 1987.

DIRECTOR
  Reel to Real by Nora Ligorano & Marshall Reese, The Poetry Project, NYC/Carnegie
  Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1987.

PRODUCTION MANAGER
  Poet in the City, theater event to benefit The Poetry Project. Booked actors, chose
  texts, coordinated production. NY Public Theater, NYC, 1987.

PERFORMER
  Organdy Falsetto by Laurie Carlos, The Poetry Project, NYC, 1986.

DIRECTOR & CO-WRITER
  Big Pocket, co-written with Evangeline Johns, Basement Workshop, NYC, 1985.

CO-WRITER & PERFORMER
  The Cupping Room. Laurie Carlos, director. Basement Workshop, NYC, 1984.

CO-WRITER & PERFORMER
  Norma Jean/The African Queen. Laurie Carlos, director. Basement Workshop, NYC, 1983.

Photo Credits:

Songs My Mother Never Taught Me – Elizabeth McLean

The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln color pics – Dan Rous

The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln b&w pic – Richard Termine

The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln b&w Gluckel & puppet crowd – Orlando Marra

The Downtown Divas – Alan Kikuchi

Organdy Falsetto, Poet in the City & other shows 1986-1987 – Vivian Selbo