2015
The Hunger Artist
Glörious Bomb Squad co-written with Jordan Matthew Walsh adapted from "A Hunger-Artist" by Franz Kafka |
A starvation artist, the last and greatest of his craft, struggles to maintain a place for himself in the changing world.
"[Pickett] brings a great hollowed intensity to the part...This is a haunting show that never drags... constant imagination here in both substance and style." |
Rampart, IL
American Theater Company Bridge Educational Program |
Cash falls from the skies over Shallot, IL. The powers-that-be want a great wall around the city to protect this good fortune, but not everyone likes the idea. One family decides to fight.
A young contrarian named Bertolt makes up this story as he goes along. |
2014
Hymns to Future Tense
Bricolage Production Company In the Raw New Play Festival directed by Risher Reddick |
EMZARA: Who is able to stay? Will you wait in the shadow of the great descending stone? Will you bow your head under the roof that crumbles?
NATALIA: We’ll show God who we are. We’ll wait under the shadow that falls over us and we’ll show God who we are. EMZARA: God loves courage but He does not pity fools. "Ethereal, even exotic... engrossing entertainment." - Pittsburgh City Paper |
Ubu King!
Alarum Theatre co-written with & directed by Jordan Matthew Walsh adapted from Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry |
PALADIN LAP: Hey, you goon-unit hobo motherfuckers! It is thus!
BOUGRELAS: Have at you! They fight. The CITIZENS are bored and distracted. PALADIN LAP: I just need a second. Time-out. He dies. |
Saudade
Alarum Theatre a devised work, created with Dylan Marquis Meyers and the ensemble |
A collection of five one-on-one performances of love and loss. Audiences kept their eyes closed while actors told their stories using music, movement, and touch.
"An exceptionally high level of professionalism... it's the troupe's solemn sincerity which brings the whole evening off." -Pittsburgh City Paper |
into light of canaan (olive oil play)
Alarum Theatre Podcast directed for radio by Shannon Knapp |
CLARISSA: Not a one of these things is certain. They are ensured by various forces: the judgment of heaven, the cycles of gravity... what will ensure that our shop shall persist and that one shall perish?
UMBERTO: I don’t know. Capitalism? The invisible hand? CLARISSA: I stick my hands into the sleeves of my sweater. Are they invisible? No. They are fists. And they are literally quaking with rage. |
2013
wish on the sun
Oakland Shakespeare Company directed by Shannon Knapp |
FATHER CLEO: Do you still have the gun they gave you?
SENATOR VAUGHN: No, I dropped it in the ocean somewhere, off the side of the lifeboat. I didn’t want to jump in after it because I thought I would be too weak to climb back in. FATHER CLEO: You really are a shithead. SENATOR VAUGHN: I know. |
godmachine
Performance Collaborative, University of Pittsburgh directed by Cole Egbert |
LITYERSES: our titans have been defeated our gods have been upended and who reigns in their places?
MIDAS: yahweh, they call him, allah, “god”: the ancient panoptic carpenter who worked six days LITYERSES: what poverty! only one god and a six day work-week MIDAS: and they dreamed up a god of surveillance LITYERSES: he sees you when you're sleeping; he knows when you're awake |
2012
Tongues of Men and Angels
University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre written with Dylan Marquis Meyers directed by Liz Dooley |
EMILIO: I'm the right hand of God now: the United States Secretary of War.
And now I'm going to send the mountain to Muhammad. Men in black suits will break down my door but they'll shake my hand and give me a check and a medal and write my name on the last page of the history books. But there won't be any history books. There will be matchsticks. And butterflies. |