Recent:
May 2023 — I performed a snippet of Travels at the Ars Nova gala.
Spring 2023 — We had an excellent two week workshop for my Ars Nova commission, Travels. We learned a great deal about it and I’m excited to share more soon.
Fall 2022 — I’ve been collaborating with Janani Balasubramanian on a series of musical audio stories on commission from the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in NYC. Museum goers will be able to listen to these pieces while exploring this fall’s Threads of Power exhibition on the history of lace. Words and voice recordings by both of us, music composed by me.
Summer 2022 — I spent most of the summer working as an artist-in-residence at The Momentary, a contemporary art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas associated with The Crystal Bridges Museum. I wrote, composed, and performed an original electronic-music art lecture exploring global and colonial histories in landscape painting—it’s titled Paulownia and it premiered there in August.
May 2022 — I co-composed the music (with JJJJJerome Ellis), and sound designed, Vitruvian by choreographer Jerron Herman at Abrons Arts Center. It got a lovely write-up in the Brooklyn Rail.
April 2022 — I voiced Helios, god of the Sun, in a scene alongside Anna Kendrick in season two of the podcast Live From Mount Olympus.
Spring 2022 — JJJJJerome Ellis and I performed our ongoing project Piano Tales with OKC Rep in Oklahoma City, in a week long run. The Oklahoman covered it in a beautiful feature you can read here.
Spring 2022 — Along with JJJJJerome Ellis, I co-composed the score to Claudia Rankine’s play Help at The Shed in New York.
Spring 2022 — I started teaching music theater lab courses at The New School, as well as in the MFA Sound Design program at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
October 2021 — The Evergreen Review published my translation of Sergio Chejfec’s long-form story “To The Electric City” in their Fall 2021 issue. Sergio is one of my favorite writers working and has been a big inspiration to me the last decade or so. Read the story here.
October 2021 — Marvel Entertainment and Sirius XM have started releasing a 10-episode fiction podcast I’ve scored with JJJJJerome Ellis, “Marvel’s Wastelanders: Hawkeye.” Directed by Rachel Chavkin. You can check it out here.
August/September 2021 — I’ve begun early work on a new live project, Travels, combining drum machines, synthesizers, and stories about global movement. With support from the Sundance Institute and The TEAM’s Petri Project.
June 2021 — Jerome & James performed Piano Tales in the main plaza at Lincoln Center as part of Lincoln Center’s Restart Stages.
June 2021 — Ars Nova commissioned me to write a profile of JJJJJerome Ellis for his Vision Residency with them. You can read the full profile here.
May 2021 — I performed (solo and as Jerome & James) as part of the Downtown Live Festival in NYC, and was mentioned in this beautiful New York Magazine article about the return of live theater. Directed by Andrew Scoville, Design by Marika Kent.
May 2021 — Jerome & James performed INK: A Creative Zoom Lecture (video here) for the Williams College Museum of Art, based on their collection. Directed by Annie Tippe, Media Design by Shawn Duan.
May 2021 — I spoke on a panel with other artists from theater company The TEAM to discuss our work on Reconstruction: Still Working But The Devil Might Be Inside for The Broad Stage’s REVEAL event (video here).
Winter 2021 — I voiced various characters for the podcast Live From Mount Olympus, alongside many of my favorite performers. NYTimes Critics’ Pick review here.
November 2020 — I made this short video about one of my favorite works of art, using music JJJJJerome Ellis and I made, for an election night event presented by Political Subversities.
November 2020 — I performed an excerpt of a new work as part of the Ars Nova Forever Telethon.
Fall 2020 — I was in a micro-residency with The TEAM working on Reconstruction: Still Working But The Devil Might Be Inside.
Summer and Fall 2020 — I translated two multi-chapter story cycles for children (one from Spanish by Fran Pintadera, and one from Italian by Elisa Mazzoli) for the innovative children’s audio story company Lunii.
September 2020 — James & Jerome received a development residency from BAM.
Spring 2020 — New York Theatre Workshop commissioned me, JJJJJerome Ellis, and Shawn Duan to make this music-story-text video during quarantine.
Spring 2020 — I released a series of videos telling stories about isolation on my instagram channel.
Spring 2020 — Jerome & James made this Piano Tales video for Lincoln Center Education at the start of quarantine.
January + February 2020 — Jerome & James’ The Conversationalists ran for four weeks at The Bushwick Starr, its world premier. A highlight of my creative life! Developed with and directed by Annie Tippe. Reviews here and here.
November 2019 — We did a concert version of The Conversationalists for a week-long run at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.
November 2019 — I was in residence with JJJJJerome Ellis and Shawn Duan at the Williams College Museum of Art, studying their collection in depth with their scholars and preparators, to create a new work.
October 2019 — James & Jerome’s Piano Tales had a run in Toronto, Ontario at Array Music, presented by The University of Toronto Graduate Centre for Drama, where we also led a series of workshops with graduate students.
August & September 2019 — We did a series of special Piano Tales performances in intimate spaces around NYC in collaboration with Lot 2 Restaurant, including a brownstone, a flower shop, and the upstairs space at New York Theatre Workshop.
Summer 2019 — I participated in a workshop version of The TEAM’s Reconstruction: Still Working But The Devil Might Be Inside at BAM and The Lumberyard in upstate New York. I’m a collaborating writer, composer, and performer for the project.
April 2019 — Audio Storytelling website The Bello Collective published this beautiful profile by James Dinneen about my work with JJJJJerome Ellis as Jerome & James.
January 2019 — JJJJJerome Ellis and I properly premiered our piece Ink: A Piece For Museums at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of Under The Radar Festival, in the first ever collaboration between The Met and The Public Theater. Created with Shawn Duan, co-directed by Rachel Chavkin and Annie Tippe.
December 2018 — In residence as James & Jerome with the Sundance Institute at MASS MoCA, where we also did a special performance of Piano Tales (full video here).