music theater work
with playwright Lauren Marshall, commissioned & premiered
by Village Theater, Seattle, WA. The parallel stories of an Israeli
soldier and a Palestinian student.
chamber opera for soprano,
baritone & shadow puppets, trio accompaniment (piano, koto
and percussion). Designed for family audiences. Based on an alegorical
tale by Rebbe Nachman. Commissioned by the Minnesota Opera Co.
and the Jerome Foundation
music-dance-drama,
work-in-progress based on the biblical Book of Ruth, uses non-western
instruments and artistic forms, workshopped at Wesleyan University
(CT)
music theater work
for four performers, based on memoirs of Minnesota Pioneer Jewish
women. Commissioned & produced by the Hillel Foundation (Minneapolis).
Winner of the Elie Wiesel Award for Jewish Culture & Arts
1989
chamber opera for six
singers, piano, electronic tape & toy instruments, libretto
by Leslie Brody based on Hassidic tales of Lilith. Commissioned
and premiered by the Minnesota Opera Co.
music theater work
based on stories of midwestern one-room schoolhouses, script by
Lance Belville, lyrics & music by myself. Commissioned by
the Great American History Theatre ( St Paul, MN)
musical based on the
life of artist Wanda Gag, script by David Brunet, lyrics &
music by myself. Commissioned by Cherry Creek Theatre (Mankato,
MN) and performed in Mankato and New Ulm.
chamber opera for three
performers, clarinet, bassoon, percussion & piano, libretto
by Judy McGuire based on a short story by Victorian feminist writer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Commissioned by the Minnesota Composers
& Librettists Studio. Winner of the Brooklyn Opera's Chamber
Opera Award