Past Projects
Menil and Her Heart
A staged reading of the play by Isabella Madrigal for the Native Performing Arts Network's National Day of Theatre Readings for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's and Relatives.
George Orwell’s 1984
An interactive staged reading of the Michael Gene Sullivan adaptation of the classic anti-fascist novel.
Aguyapihamblé: A Frybread Vision Quest
An original experience design prototype developed for and presented at the 2024 New Frame Festival of Experience Design Prototypes.
Deal with the Dragon
A production of the acclaimed one-person play written and performed by Kevin Rolston.
Displacement: Stories from Section 14
A commission from the Green Room Theatre Company as lead playwright on a play about social justice.
Indigenous Magic
An in-person gathering of and for indigenous artists of all affiliations from Turtle Island and beyond.
Prince Charming, You’re Late
Once upon a time, young Billy waited for Prince Charming’s rescue. They would live in some far-off kingdom with lots of waltzing. And princess dresses. When an enchanting man half his age and arrow-straight appeared one day, did Billy stop dreaming of happily ever after? Dream on… A true life fable, a one-man middle-age-ed cautionary tale, developed with generous support from the Emerging Artists Theatre New Work Series in NYC.
Pride & Joy
Amid the darknesses of 2020, TigerBear Productions wanted to illuminate. To not simply lift up but send whatever stories we could aloft, like helium balloons, SpaceX rockets, paper lanterns. To light up the virtual stage with stories of pride and joy from persons we didn’t know, who had stories to tell that needed to be heard. Benefitting Pittsburgh’s Casa San Jose, Chicago’s Howard Brown Health Center, D.C.’s Casa Ruby, Alliance San Diego, Haiti Cultural Exchange, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Hold Me the Forgotten Way
A National Queer Audiotheatre Collaboration of a Micromonologue Cycle by Harrison David Rivers
Consisting of seven brief audio monologues, this exquisite audiocycle by Harrison David Rivers explores intimate confessions made in public spaces about love and sex. Starting Wednesday June 16 through December 31, 2021.
Lines of Movement, Lines of Modernism
Birdsinging, Dance and Storytelling with a Tour of the Butler-Jaffe House
The 1971 Butler-Jaffe House in Indian Canyons is an exquisite showcase for second-wave midcentury modernism. Fifty years after its construction, the house provides Modernism Week 2021 attendees a unique chance to experience its architecture, design, and style alongside stories, birdsongs performed by singers and dancers from the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, and modern movement choreographed and performed by the Nickerson-Rossi Dance company. The event embraces modernism, movement, and migration, and honors the local Native Americans whose land the house sits on.
Sheherezade's Last Tales
A short play festival production for Playwrights' Center of San Francisco.
Musical Cafe
A developmental showcase series for new musicals by San Francisco Bay Area-based composers and librettists.