WRITING
I write essays on Substack about making theater, about exile, and about the questions I cannot put down. Here is where I would start.
THE MANIFESTO
The Theater of Questions: A Manifesto for the Restless
What I believe about making theater, and what I ask of a partner.
ESSAYS
What Do You Do With a Great Tradition When Its Country Starts a War?
I was born in Kyiv, trained in Moscow, and for years I told Americans I was Russian.
I Staged a Bomb Shelter in June. In July, Ukraine Taught Me What I Had Actually Made.
The audience was all women. The men are at war.
The Script Is Not Sacred. Your Audience Is.
The author of the script you are treating as sacred is instructing you to break it open.
There is a moment before every Holocaust play begins, before the lights even go down.
Your Catharsis Is Not My Theater
I was twenty years old and I thought I understood what this work was for.
Every Actor Who Thinks Their Job Is to Tell a Story Is Slowly Killing Their Work
I know I will be excommunicated from the church of theater for saying this.