Designed with small audiences in mind, The Institute of Visionary History and the Archives of the Deep Now was produced by Submersive Productions and took place in a one-room installation that was introduced as a "thin place," a place where one can more easily transcend our present reality and contact other planes, places, and times. Audience members were inducted as researchers, then led to the room to conduct an experiment where they inhabited the world with the performers. In addition to the performance, the room was activated using light, projections, sound and object theater. Six original "Episodes" were devised with eight different performers for this run throughout the fall of 2018 in The Peale Center in downtown Baltimore. Each Episode took place in the same installation, which was modified for each show. In collaboration with Josh Aterovis, Glenn Ricci and Susan Stroupe, I designed the room and served as Prop Master for each of the Episodes.

Written and performed by artist Michele Minnick, "BATS!" was a mixed media, interactive contemplation on the nature of fear and madness. With a high level of audience engagement and participation, the story unfolded with the use of text, live accordion music, projections, soundscapes, and puppetry in the Marquee Lounge at The Creative Alliance in Baltimore in 2018. As a part of the Production Team, I served as Puppet Fabricator and Puppeteer, as well as Props Manager and Set Dresser. The show was produced by Submersive Productions, where I serve as Co-Artistic Director along with my husband, Glenn Ricci.

"H. T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum: The Treasures of New Galapagos, Astonishing Acquisitions from the Perisphere" was a four story immersive adventure that activated The Peale Center in downtown Baltimore - the first purpose built museum in the United States - consisting of two full award-winning runs, one in the spring and one in the fall of 2017. The "Musaeum" was filled with a number of "specimens" from a distant planet, brought back by intrepid explorer H.T. Darling.

During the performance, multiple narratives were happening in the building simultaneously, and the audience was invited to inhabit the world with the performers and choose their own path. Over twenty performers and artists devised and collaborated to create this project. I fabricated several of the puppet specimens and was part of the team of puppeteers during both runs. I also served as the Props Master, Set Dresser and Co-Producer for the show. The show was produced by Submersive Productions, where I serve as Co-Artistic Director along with my husband, Glenn Ricci.

Co-produced with my husband, Glenn Ricci, "The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe" was an immersive theater experience based on the life and characters of Poe, staged in the Enoch Pratt House in the Mt. Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore. A collaborative, multi-disciplinary work that incorporated performance, soundscapes and art installation, thirty artists devised and created "a world both bizarre and beautiful" for two separate runs in the Spring and Fall of 2015. As Prop Designer/Fabricator and Set Dresser I created objects and installations to be encountered and discovered by audience members during their visit.

"Unfriendly Skies: Birds, Buildings and Collisions" was a group exhibition curated by Baltimore artist Lynne Parks. It was first mounted at the Silber Art Gallery at Goucher College in the spring of 2015, then expanded and remounted at the School of Art at George Mason University in the fall of 2015. These three pieces grapple with the horrible loss of birds to building strikes, light pollution and other man-made issues.

The human acts of collecting, capturing and cataloging the material of the world are central themes in my work. But what about the things that we gather that have no physical manifestation? Inspired by the act of meditation, the "breath" series seeks to illustrate the elusive quality of every in-and-out breath, and the difficulty that lies in harnessing our attention back to that simple act.

The pieces in this series are inspired by my residency in Scotland in July of 2012. The landscape there retains evidence of the hands that have shaped it for centuries, and there is a continuing dialogue between the natural materials native to the place and the humans that have gathered those materials and put them to use.

Birds have appeared in mythology and literature as messengers, omens, wise beings and fragile connections to the heavens. Scientists collect the physical manifestations of birds, but others collect the sightings of these creatures. This series is inspired by birds both real and imagined, and the human pursuit of both.

Birds have appeared in mythology and literature as messengers, omens, wise beings and fragile connections to the heavens. Scientists collect the physical manifestations of birds, but others collect the sightings of these creatures. This on-going series is inspired by birds both real and imagined, and the human pursuit of both.