UPCOMING DIRECTING PROJECTS
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STRANGE MEN
By Will Snider Directed by Will Detlefsen UCSD Wagner New Play Festival, Shank Theatre, CA MAY, 2017 For tickets, click here. |
Haamid lives a modest life running a restaurant in a small market town in Uganda. A member of the minority Indian population, he is estranged from his family for reasons he prefers not to discuss. At night he cooks elaborate dinners that he eats alone. When an openly gay Peace Corps volunteer comes to town looking for more than a good meal, Haamid's comfortable routine is broken, and his life is put in danger.
STRANGE MEN explores the limits of good intentions and the uneven stakes for Americans living abroad and the people whose lives they touch. |
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CONFIRMATION is a show about the gulf between beliefs that we can’t talk across. About our knee-jerk dismissal of the opposing viewpoint. About the echo chamber of agreement and validation we live in. About the way we choose only to see the evidence that proves we’re right.
Working with research into the phenomenon of Confirmation Bias, CONFIRMATION attempts to have an honorable dialogue, real and imagined, with political extremism. |
CONFIRMATION
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MACHINALIA
By Stephanie Joy Del Rosso Inspired by Machinal by Sophie Treadwell Directed by Will Detlefsen Ubuntu Theater Project, Oakland, CA JUNE, 2017 For tickets, click here. |
Machinal is a play originally written by Sophie Treadwell in 1928 about the real life case of Ruth Snyder, the first women sentenced to death for murdering her husband. Stephanie Joy Del Rosso’s fresh and fast-paced adaptation, MACHINALIA, brings this narrative into a contemporary setting.
In a time when our nation’s leader encourages misogyny and nasty language against women, what can women do to fight back. MACHINALIA tells the story of that fight. |
