LIBRETTIST - ZÜRICH OPERA PREMIER 2022 — GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

Libretto for an opera based on Tracy Chevalier novel “Girl With A Pearl Earring” for composer Stefan Wirth.

LYRICIST - CURIOSITY CABINET      NYC 2017

Lyrics for composer Daniel Felsenfeld, “Verbotenwortlied”

LIBRETTIST/CONCEIVER - LOS ANGELES OPERA — 2016

Supplied concept and treatment for an immersive opera project based on the Peter Beagle short story “Come, Lady Death”.

WRITER-PERFORMER-DIRECTOR - BOOTLEG THEATER —2012

Double bill of “Billy The Kid And What He Did” and “Broad Daylight”.

WRITER-PERFORMER - HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE, SANTA MONICA CA

— 2012

“I Asked My Body What It Remembered: A Disco Memoir”.

LYRICIST — ALOUD/LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY- 2011

Texts for “Dark Carols”, a song-cycle for composer Peter Golub, commissioned by Aloud.

LYRICIST - INTERNATIONAL ORANGE CHORALE OF SAN FRANCISCO — 2011

Text for composer Jeremy Faust’s “Issa”.Description text goes here

LIBRETTIST - ZÜRICH OPERA PREMIER 2022 — GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING

Libretto for an opera based on Tracy Chevalier novel “Girl With A Pearl Earring” for composer Stefan Wirth.

LYRICIST - CURIOSITY CABINET      NYC 2017

Lyrics for composer Daniel Felsenfeld, “Verbotenwortlied”

LIBRETTIST/CONCEIVER - LOS ANGELES OPERA — 2016

Supplied concept and treatment for an immersive opera project based on the Peter Beagle short story “Come, Lady Death”.

WRITER-PERFORMER-DIRECTOR - BOOTLEG THEATER —2012

Double bill of “Billy The Kid And What He Did” and “Broad Daylight”.

WRITER-PERFORMER - HIGHWAYS PERFORMANCE SPACE, SANTA MONICA CA

— 2012

“I Asked My Body What It Remembered: A Disco Memoir”.

LYRICIST — ALOUD/LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY- 2011

Texts for “Dark Carols”, a song-cycle for composer Peter Golub, commissioned by Aloud.

LYRICIST - INTERNATIONAL ORANGE CHORALE OF SAN FRANCISCO — 2011

Text for composer Jeremy Faust’s “Issa”.

LIBRETTIST - NEW YORK CITY OPERA - VOX FESTIVAL — 2009

Original libretto for Anne LeBaron’s “Crescent City.”

LIBRETTIST - SONOMA CITY OPERA — 2006

Original libretto for Libby Larsen’s Jack London opera, “Every Man Jack.”

TRANSLATOR/PERFORMER - EOS ORCHESTRA NYC — 2001

Translated and performed all the parts (narration in English, dialogues in original French) in Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire d’un Soldat” under the direction of Christopher Alden.

LYRICIST - JAMES SCHWABACHER COMMISSION — 2000

Text for “Eve-Song”, a song-cycle for composer Jake Heggie. First performance: February 27, 2000 at Old First Church, San Francisco; Kristin Clayton, soprano; Jake Heggie, pianist.

LIBRETTIST - WALT DISNEY CO/NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC — 1999

Commissioned by Disney and Michael Eisner for the New York Philharmonic's Millennium Celebration, supplied the text for composer Michael Torke’s “Four Seasons”, an oratorio for chorus and orchestra.

LIBRETTIST - SAN FRANCISCO OPERA — 1998

Libretto from Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” for composer André Previn.

LYRICIST - PACIFIC SYMPHONY — 1998

Text for composer Frank Ticheli’s song cycle for soprano and orchestra, “An American Dream.”

LIBRETTIST - SONOMA CITY OPERA — 1996

Original libretto of “The Dreamers” for composer David Conte.

LIBRETTIST -1996

Sons of Noah, a cantata for soprano, four guitars and four bassoons with music by Stephen Hartke, to be performed at the end of 1996 in Los Angeles.

WRITER, DIRECTOR, PERFORMER, PRODUCER - 1996

The Wandering Whore, a musical about the criminal sexual underworld of the 18th century, with music by Eliot Douglass.Opened Sept. 13, 1996 for a four week run at the American Center for Musical Theatre in Hollywood, having been previewed with a grant from the Audrey Skirball Kenis Foundation at their Common Ground Festival at UCLA, June 1997... Pick of the Week, LA Weekly 9/27-10/3/96. Critic’s Choice, Drama-Logue, 9/26-10/2/96. Opens June 13, 1997 at Playwrights’ Arena. Re-opened June 13, 1997, at the Playwright’s Arena.

LIBRETTIST/LYRICIST - 1995

NakedMan, a song cycle commissioned by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, with music by Robert Seeley.

Premiered June 8, 1995, Davies Hall, San Francisco. Also performed at the National Gay Chorus convention in Tampa, FL in July. CD produced, June.

LIBRETTIST — AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS FOR THE DALLAS CONVENTION - 1994

Original libretto “The Wise Women” for composer Conrad Susa.

LIBRETTIST -1994

The Dangerous Liaisons, an opera commissioned by the San Francisco Opera, based on the original novel by Choderlos de Laclos, with music by Conrad Susa. Premiered September, 1994, San Francisco Opera. Subsequently broadcast on PBS.

LIBRETTIST -1994

The Wise Women, a play with music commissioned by the American Guild of Organists, with music by Conrad Susa.

Premiered December, 1994, Dallas. Further productions have since occured regularly.

WRITER/PERFORMER?DIRECTOR - 1994

No Miracle: a consolation, a musical about the AIDS crisis, with music by Eliot Douglass and Eric Cunningham

November, 1994, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica. Portions subsequently played on KCRW FM, Los Angeles.

Previously performed (in a shorter version) at several Los Angeles area locations from 1990.

TRANSLATOR/ACTOR - 1994

Educated Women and The Improvisation at Versailles, from Moliere’s Les Femmes Savantes and L’Impromptu de Versailles, commissioned by the Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga, CA.

Summer 1994. Also played Trissotin in Educated Women under the direction of Ellen Geer.

WRITER/DIRECTOR/PERFORMER -1993

The Night Market, a musical with music by Eliot Douglass June, 1993, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica.

SINGER/SONGWRITER - 1993 - 1998

Cabaret act with original songs by Littell and Douglass, occasional music by Eric Cunningham, and the odd out of the way old standard.

Various venues around the Los Angeles area.