PRoDUCER Credits
TINA
Presented in 2018 at the Smithsonian Affiliate, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Gardens. TINA was awarded a “PASS Artist Residency” and is Tamara’s playwriting debut.
Tamara Geisler and her team of collaborators bring legendary artist, activist, revolutionary Tina Modotti to life in her one-woman production of TINA, a new piece with original music and text in collage with Modotti's own words from Bohemia Hollywood, Post-Revolution Mexican Renaissance, and the USSR under Stalin. TINA asks the question: When is a life too unique for any frame?
The Dream Project: Phase 2
Presented at the GK Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York in 2018. The Dream Project is a collaboration between artists from Mexico, United States and Canada. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream is deconstructed and reinvented into an immersive, tri-lingual and multidisciplinary piece that explores the cultural climate of North America.
The House on Poe Street
Presented at the 14th St Y in NYC. Gothic ghosts encounter modern monstrosities when twin sisters inherit the house where Poe is reputed to have composed The Raven. In The House on Poe Street a wealthy estate lawyer learns to appreciate Poe’s macabre spirit while questioning his own presumptions of wealth, gender parity and the power of poetry to conjure visions of a spectral afterlife.
The Dream Project: Phase 1
Presented at MuvArte in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico in 2017. The Dream Project is a collaboration between North American artists from Mexico, United States and Canada. Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream is deconstructed and reinvented into an immersive, tri-lingual and multidisciplinary piece.
Taproot: Poetic License 2016
Presented at The Wild Project in NYC. As part of “Poetic License 2016: A Kind of Now”. Taproot, world premiers and re-imaginations of 10 short poetic plays that explore growth and humanity in the context of social justice. Featured original work by noted playwrights Dominque Morisseau, Jose Rivera and Craig Mums Grant.