Content warning: colonization, death

Inspired by interviews with Houston–based NASA astronauts, scientists, and engineers, O Columbia traces a history of dreamers and explorers–from Sir Walter Raleigh journeying to the New World, to a Houston teenager experiencing communion, and later, heartbreak, with a Columbia space shuttle astronaut, to f...

Adapted from and further inspired by the short story Mermaid in the Jar by Sheila Heti, this triptych of short chamber operas (Mermaid in the Jar, Prairie Dogs, and Fine and Dandy) takes place entirely within an eleven-year-old girl’s bedroom as she overhears her parents’ volatile conversations. Over the course of a few days, a mermaid she recei...

Content warning: terrorism, racism

An adaptation of Atom Egoyan’s 2008 film of the same name, Adoration follows Simon, an orphaned high school student. As part of a dramatic writing exercise, Simon’s teacher encourages him to appropriate details from a historical terrorist attack as an imaginary event perpetrated by his parents. When his stor...

A humorous, pun-filled mini-opera, Bianchi follows two bicycles striving to catch up to the sleek, elusive Bianchi model ahead on the trail.