WRITING & ADAPTATIONS

HOW TO ACT SHAKESPEARE GOOD
This free book tells you how to act Shakespeare good. 

CORIOLANUS
Helen Hayes Award Winner (2024). This adaptation explores Shakespeare's tragedy through a trauma-informed lens, using video game elements to explore the effects of combat PTSD on the protagonist. Audience members can use a video game controller to move and manipulate the live actor playing Coriolanus onstage. Script and details available on request.

THE MARGRIAD
An anti-war ghost story. The entire arc of Queen Margaret across four of Shakespeare's history plays (Henry VI Parts I, II, & III and Richard III) condensed into one irreverent, disturbing, and hilarious night of theatre. U.S. Premiere at Avant Bard Theatre (2025). PDF

THE DEPLORABLE
A resistance act against the normalization of the January 6th Insurrection. Warning: this piece includes depictions and descriptions of extreme racial and political violence. This piece had a sold out Resistance Reading with Avant Bard Theatre and has been revised based on audience responses. Download PDF.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF KILLARNEY
An immigrant love-comedy with a live Irish band. Shakespeare's story re-contextualized during The Great Famine and Irish immigration to the United States (and without the sexual assault that occurs at the end of the original play). Upcoming world premiere at Avant Bard Theatre (March 2026).

THE TEMPEST (Music & Lyrics by Emily Erickson & Seamus Miller)
A 90-minute musical adaptation of Shakespeare's story told through an anti-colonial lens. World premiere in Bermuda with Devil's Isle Shakespeare Company (2024). For script, score, and production information, please contact [email protected] and [email protected].

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