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Theater 102 Theater in Chicago
Theater 120 Acting I
Theater 130 Origins of Theater
Theater 220 Acting II
Theater 237 Women on Stage
Theater 250 Introduction to Performance Studies 

Articles

“Open Carry: Radical Stillness.” TDR 59.4 (2015): 176-83.

“On Not Falling: Philippe Petit and His Walk Between the Twin Towers,” Performance Research 18.2 (2013): 30-35.

“ ‘The Lovers’: On The Great Wall and Beyond,” Performance Research 17.5 (2012): 19-23. 
“Orlando by the Lake,” The Center for Classic Theatre Review Issue #1 (2011): 32-35. 

“Wandering Through Time: Francis Alÿs’s Paseos and the Circulation of Performance,” Liminalities 6.2 (2010) 

“The Built Environment and the Architecture of a Performance: Arcosanti, Chicago, and the Making of Theoretical Isolation: A Post-Atomic Experiment,” co-authored with Ira S. Murfin, Theatre Topics 20.2 (Sept 2010): 133-146. 

Published plays

44 Plays for 44 Presidents (published by Playscripts Inc., 2009) 

200 More Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (Hope and Nonthings, 2004) 

Neo-Solo: 131 Neo-Futurist Solo Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (published by Hope and Nonthings, 2002).

“ ‘I Hope to Tell Ya’: Voice and Travel in Sweet Tea,” workgroup paper, The American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2012

“ ‘The Best Black Talent’ ”: Rhetoric and history of the UniverSoul Circus,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Washington D.C., August 2012
 
“Veterans and Citizens: The Performances of Iraq Veterans Against the War,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Washington D.C., August 2012
 
“Still at Work: Curious Theatre Branch and the Labor of Play,” panel presentation, Mid-America Theatre Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2012

“A Voice and A Story: Multi-vocal Performances in Neo-Futurism,” panel presentation, organized for the National Communications Association Panel, San Francisco, California, November 2010 

“Enduring Bodies: Abamovic and Ulay’s The Lovers,” panel presentation, Performance Studies International conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2010 

“Theoretical Isolation: Actual Collaborations,” workgroup paper, The American Society for Theatre Research, Puerto Rico, November 2009 

“Risk and Surprise: Operation First Casualty and The Risk of Re-enactment,” a panel paper for the Performance Studies International conference, Centre for Drama Arts, Zagreb, Croatia, June 2009 

“Catching Philippe Petit,” a panel paper for Performance Studies International conference, The University of Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2008 

Respondent, “Theatre: Crossroads of the Humanities” Conference, Northwestern University, April 2008 

“The Ethics of Performing the Other in a Neo-Futurist Performance,” a panel paper for the Oral History and Performance Conference, Columbia University, March 2008 

” ‘When I See Two Oranges, I Juggle. When I See Two Towers, I Walk’: Performance Becomes Folktale for Philippe Petit,” a panel paper for the Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, February 2007 

“The Mayor’s Mouth: Harold Washington’s Desserts,” a performative paper presented at the 2006 American Studies Association National Conference, Oakland, CA., October 2006

Crowns: The Gospel Musical (assistant director), Goodman Theatre, written and directed by Regina Taylor, July 2012

Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (writer and performer), longest-running show in Chicago, The Neo-Futurists, ongoing 

The Last Act of Lilka Kadison (assistant director), world premiere, Lookingglass Theatre, 2011 

Mirror City: A Phantom Experiment (co-creator and performer), study of Chicago’s history and phantom limb syndrome, Curious Theatre, RhinoFest 2011

You Enjoy Myself (co-writer and director), inspired by research on mirror neurons, CollaborAction 2010 Sketchbook Festival, June 2010

Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, (production dramaturg), adaptaion of the ethnography, Sweet Tea, by E. Patrick Johnson, About Face Theatre, May 2010 

Theoretical Isolation: A Post-Atomic Experiment, (creator and performer), The Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials, site-specific performance created for Arcosanti, an urban laboratory in Arizona, March 2009; performed in Chicago, April 2009 

Twice Told, (adapter and director), an adaptation of the short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Northwestern University, February 2009 

A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol, (co-director) The Neo-Futurists Theatre Company, November 2008 

Antigonizing, (writer), “Snapshots: A Festival of Short Work by Women,” 20 % Theatre Company, Chicago, August 2008 

The Fool (returns to his chair), (co-creator and performer), original movement performance, The Neo-Futurists, August 2007

Mirror of the Invisible World, adapted and directed by Mary Zimmerman, (assistant director), The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, June 2007 

Illuminations/Marginalia (co-creator and director), dance-theatre performance inspired by medieval manuscripts, Northwestern University, February 2007 

Impossible Cities: A Utopian Experiment (co-writer and performer), a collection of short performances about utopian societies, Walkabout Theatre Company, Chicago January 2007 

I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes, (writer, director, performer) an original solo-performance based on the life of Sara Carter, Northwestern University, March 2006; produced at The Neo-Futurists, April 2006 

Patriots (creator and director), original full-length play about patriotism in America, The Neo-Futurists, April 2005 

Drinking and Writing (co-writer and performer), original site-specific performance, performed at bars throughout Chicago 2004-2005; performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2004 

The Mayor’s Mouth, (co-creator and performer), a live theatrical political cooking show, I-80 Drama Co, premiered at Around the Coyote Arts Festival 2003, Chicago; produced by the Chicago History Museum, April 2005 

The Emmett Project (creator and director), original full-length play about Emmett Till, The Neo-Futurists, March 2003