Code Duello: Hamilton & Burr
2006-2010
My favorite and most enduring improv show. In the years before Hamilton became a breakout musical, Matt Tucker and I played Burr and Hamilton. Each night we’d ask the audience for an event you’d read about in a colonial newspaper, then improvised how said event led to the fatal duel between best-frenemies Burr and Hammy. Code Duello played all over Boston, at UCBNY, for the UCBTourco, and traveled to about a dozen improv festivals before we retired the show.
The Wasteland Comedy Hour with T.S. Eliot!
2007
A mixed media comedy variety show for an extremely Cambridge audience, The Wasteland was a mega-collab with some of the brightest and most ambitious colleagues from ImprovBoston and The Tribe. We created seven unique one-hour, one-off shows (in two months!), each installment focused on a theme: the body, the self, sex and relationships, money, the system, war & aggression, and finally, the unknown. So pretentious and so silly, we sweat blood to bring this show together so fast. Parts of it were shockingly prescient. Others have not aged well. I’m proud of it all the same.
ImprovBoston & The Tribe
2003-2010
In my twenties, the Boston improv scene was my community and my artistic outlet. Night after night, finding my voice in front of audiences alongside some of the funniest people I’ve ever known. Highlights include the ImprovBoston Mainstage, The Tribe Mainstage, Code Duello, The IB Family Show, This Improvised Life, The Wasteland Comedy Hour, Unnatural Selection, IB TourCo, Unbalanced, Speek1337, Uncommonwealth, Dayjob, and countless other blips in performance, direction, or teaching.
48Hour Film Project
2008-2010
A nationwide annual tradition I loved but never want to do again. Teams of local filmmakers competed to deliver an edited, fully scored short film in 48 hours over one hectic weekend… with a genre pulled from a hat. I did a few of these over the years and in 2010 my team ALBATROSS took the win for the whole city of Boston.
