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THEATER


SYMPHONY OF RATS in progress
GET YOUR ASS IN THE WATER AND SWIM LIKE ME (2024)
THE MOTHER (2021)
NAYATT SCHOOL REDUX (2019)
A PINK CHAIR (In Place of a Fake Antique) (2018)
THE B-SIDE: “Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons,” A Record Album Interpretation (2017)
THE TOWN HALL AFFAIR (2017)
THE ROOM (2016)
RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY (for the new Whitney Museum of American Art) (2015)
EARLY SHAKER SPIRITUALS (2014)
CRY, TROJANS! (Troilus & Cressida) (2014)
VIEUX CARRÉ (2011)
LA DIDONE (2009)
HAMLET (2007, 2012)   Watch online at Kanopy »
WHO'S YOUR DADA?! (at the Museum of Modern Art) (2006)
POOR THEATER (2004)
TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (Phèdre) (2002)   Watch online at Kanopy »
HOUSE/LIGHTS (1998, 2005)   Watch online at Kanopy »
THE HAIRY APE (1996)
FISH STORY (1994)
THE EMPEROR JONES (1993, 2006)
BRACE UP! (1991, 2003)   Watch online at Kanopy »
NORTH ATLANTIC (1984, 1999, 2010)

The Road To Immortality

FRANK DELL'S THE TEMPTATlON OF ST. ANTONY (1988)
L.S.D. (...JUST THE HIGH POINTS...) (1984)
ROUTE 1 & 9 (1981)

Three Places In Rhode Island

POINT JUDITH (an epilog) (1979)
NAYATT SCHOOL (1978)
RUMSTICK ROAD (1977)
SAKONNET POINT (1975)


DANCE


I AM JEROME BEL (2008)
ERASE-E(X) (2004) with JoJi Inc »
DANCES WITH T.V. AND MIC (1998) with Vincent Dunoyer »
FOR THE GOOD TlMES (1982)
HULA (1981)


FILM-VIDEO


NAYATT SCHOOL (in progress)
DAILIES (2010 - 2020)
A MEANING FULL LIFE (2016) with Young Jean Lee
HAMLET (Blu-ray/DVD - 2015)   Watch online at Kanopy »
RUMSTICK ROAD (DVD - 2013)
TO YOU, THE BIRDIE! (Phèdre) (DVD - 2011)   Watch online at Kanopy »
BRACE UP! (DVD - 2009)   Watch online at Kanopy »
THERE IS STILL TIME..BROTHER (installation - 2007)
HOUSE/LIGHTS (DVD - 2004)   Watch online at Kanopy »
THE EMPEROR JONES (DVD - 1999)
WRONG GUYS (film - 1997)
RHYME 'EM TO DEATH (1994)
WHlTE HOMELAND COMMANDO (1992)
HUNCHBACK (an MTV Art Break) (1992)
TODAY, I MUST SINCERELY CONGRATULATE YOU (1991)
CHANNEL J (1986)
FLAUBERT DREAMS OF TRAVEL BUT THE ILLNESS OF HIS MOTHER PREVENTS IT (1986) with Ken Kobland
BY THE SEA (1979) with Ken Kobland


RADIO-AUDIO


LOVE SONGS (CD - 2002)
THE PEGGY CARSTAlRS REPORT (radio play - 2002)
RACINE'S PHÈDRE (radio play - 2000)
THE EMPEROR JONES (radio play - 1998)
Each radio piece was a BBC Radio 3 Broadcast for a Festival Radio Production


THEATER COLLABORATIONS


TROILUS AND CRESSIDA (2012)
a collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company for the World Shakespeare Festival as part of the London 2012 Festival; directed by Elizabeth LeCompte & Mark Ravenhill
EARLY PLAYS (2012)
a collaboration with New York City Players; directed by Richard Maxwell; texts by Eugene O'Neill
SYMPHONY OF RATS (1988) & MlSS UNlVERSAL HAPPlNESS (1985)
written for the company & directed by Richard Foreman/Ontological-Hysteric Theater
AND THAT'S HOW THE RENT GETS PAID (1984)
written & directed by Jeff Weiss


MONOLOGS BY SPALDING GRAY


INTERVIEWING THE AUDIENCE (1982)
NOBODY WANTED TO SIT BEHIND A DESK (1981)
47 BEDS (1981)
IN SEARCH OF THE MONKEY GIRL (1981)
A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN THEATER (1980)
BOOZE, CARS & COLLEGE GIRLS (1979)
INDIA & AFTER (AMERICA) (1979)
SEX & DEATH TO THE AGE 14 (1979)


GARAGE PRODUCTIONS


ROY COHN/JACK SMITH (1992)
conceived & performed by Ron Vawter
directed by Gregory Mehrten, created with Clay Shirky & Marianne Weems
ROY COHN by Gary Indiana
JACK SMITH from his "What's Underground About Marshmallows?"




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