Directing
F i l m
Two-Story House
(2022)
Winner of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program Equipment Grant
After witnessing her father’s murder, a college student is kidnapped by three men who must decide whether to kill her while she tries to escape.
S t i l l s
Film
A boy and girl are forced to cover up a murder, but one of them has second thoughts.
Seven minutes before the curtain rises, a director must deal with last minute problems that could ruin his play.
Theater
When We’re Alone (2018)
Written by Devin Lee
During rehearsal for this play, I was directing two shows at once. Scheduling my time with the times of two different casts and crews was a rather difficult balancing act, but through that challenge I learned about collaboration and efficiency. The themes of this play meant a great deal to me, and I am so grateful that we had the chance to bring it to life.
After his attempted suicide, a teenager attends a high school party and tries to fit in with everyone else. He soon learns that some of them aren’t actually different from him at all; they’re just trying to hide.
Performed in partnership with the charity The Maddie Project, I wrote and directed this play to raise money and awareness for youth mental health. My goal was to examine the way people, particularly young people, conceal their perceived flaws and vulnerability out of fear of judgment or criticism. There becomes a strange divide between who we are when we’re with our friends and who we are when we’re alone.
Rope (2018)
Two men attempt the “perfect” murder, and then host a dinner party with the corpse hidden in the room. They harboured no ill will toward their victim, and gained nothing from his death. So why do it? To show that they can.
A stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film, Rope (1948).
The play, based on Alfred Hitchcock’s landmark film, is a riveting indictment of how we as a people set a price to human life. The film was made just after the Second World War, when the Nazi party had been promoting the concept of Nietzsche’s Superman. Today, there are still those in power who believe their agendas are more important than the lives of others. This play asks those people, “What gives you the right to decide whose life is worth more?”
Set entirely in the killers’ apartment, this story was perfectly suited for a stage adaptation. Because it was also set in real time, rehearsals were incredibly precise. The cast had to be almost balletic in their pacing, weaving in and out of the audience’s focus as other members of the ensemble took the spotlight. It was a project that I had been dreaming to do for years, and the whole team delivered a piece worthy of its exemplary source material.