I want to help make an audience (and cast & crew) feel alive and connected in real time.

Almost every aspect of an inherited language comes from disregarded experiences: the physicality of the word blurt when someone first blurted the word, and the referential physicality of a word like “stunned” and “stunning”.

We use the word stunned far more often than we’ve experienced it.

We dispatch and receive every word with the speed of clichès, and I believe it’s the job of theater to slow us down. I believe that taking the time to deliberately reconnect the language with the body turns all dialogue into poetry. What begins as the writer's physical experience is transposed again and again until individual audience members "inhale sharply", or sigh in chorus. Theater should aim to provide the physical experience that will inspire us to form new understandings and new questions— and not aim to provide reassurance for concepts we’ve already have tucked into our pockets.