Projects:  Directing   -   Writing    -    Design

DIRECTING

Awakenings
- Bronxville Women's Club, March 17, 2013
- Nyack Library Carnegie Series, April 6, 2013
a dramatization of Kate Chopin's 1899 novel, The Awakening, featuring music by Amy Beach, Pauline Viardot Garcia, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Clara Schumann. Adaptation by Jeanne Ruskin. Jeanne Ruskin, narrator; Korliss Uecker, soprano; Joanne Polk, pianist.

The Hidden Sky
- Prospect Theater Company
- Joe's Pub (concert version)
an award-winning musical based on the short story, “The Masters,” by Ursula K. Le Guin, with music and lyrics by Peter Foley, book by Kate Chisholm

The Hidden Sky at Prospect Theater Company Jan. 30 - Feb. 28, 2010 an award-winning musical based on the short story “The Masters” by Ursula K. Le Guin Music and Lyrics by Peter Foley Book by Kate Chisholm Directed by Kate Chisholm More info & song excerpts CurtainUp Review Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin Promo Video

Heartfield
Baltimore Theatre Project
a musical by Kenneth Allan Vega about the life and work of the subversive German photomontage artist, John Heartfield, and his “one man’s war against Hitler”

Newton’s Universe
Arts at St. Ann’s / The Culture Project
a play for actor and puppets about Isaac Newton’s exploration of alchemy

Raw Impressions Music Theater Event #5
La MaMa, e.t.c.
new music theater works by:  Alison Leyton-Brown and Alexandra Tolk; Beth Blatt and Dan Shamir; Ellen Maddow and Michael Scherman; Joel Derfner

The Best of Raw Impressions Music Theater
Women Center Stage Festival / The Culture Project
new music theater work by Alison Leyton-Brown and Alexandra Tolk

On Aesthetics
Towson University MFA in Theatre
an ensemble movement-based interpretation of the poem by Kenneth Koch

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PLAYWRITING

The Hidden Sky

• Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia, PA
• Prospect Theater Company, NY
• Spirit of Broadway Theater, Norwich, CT
• Joe’s Pub, New York, NY (concert version)
• The Director’s Company, NY (workshop production)

an award-winning music theater piece based on the short story, “The Masters,” by Ursula K. Le Guin
Music and Lyrics by Peter Foley
Book by Kate Chisholm
More info & song excerpts

Newton’s Universe

• St. Ann’s Warehouse / The Culture Project

a play for actor and puppets about Isaac Newton’s exploration of alchemy
Music by Peter Foley
Text by Kate Chisholm

Between the Acts

(work-in-progress)
a theatrical adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s final novel for actors and choral ensemble

DESIGN

Newton’s Universe
St. Ann’s Warehouse / The Culture Project
Puppets, set and costumes by Kate Chisholm
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Waiting for Godot
Berkeley Theater Project
Set and costumes by Kate Chisholm
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Watchnight
Berkeley Theater Project
Set by Kate Chisholm

“The Berkeley Theater Project has set its new one-man play, Watchnight, in a land that’s appealing right from the start, mostly because it feels so much richer than our own.... From the moments [Joshua Leavitt] strides onto the hardwood floor of Kate Chisholm’s elegant, restrained set (the stage suggested by negative space), Leavitt grabs hold of his tale with bold urgency.” -- Christopher Hawthorne, Berkeley Express

Other

• Designed masks for The Only Jealousy of Emer (Playwright’s Horizons Theater School)
• Assisted in building masks and props for The Greenbird (directed and designed by Julie Taymor)
• Assistant Prop Master, Towson University MFA in Theatre program
• Graphic design for theater posters and postcards
• Graphic design, newsletter and book layout