CREATOR
Sara's work on stage is hilarious, tragic, and punches you in the gut. Sara has a colorful multidisciplinary background including experience with choreography, trumpet performance, sound design, directing, and stage management.
Dreamboat
By Sara Kommer
Directed by James Wyrwicz
All aboard the Dreamboat! First and final destination: teenage dysfunction! Toot toot! (Does this weekend keep repeating itself?)
Presented as a part of Dixon Place’s HOT! Festival on July 30 & 31st, 2019
Chorus:
Rajiv Awasthi, Mariyea Jackson, Philip Kenner, Beau LaBranch, Issac Roberto Lopez, Dennis Mashevsky, Cashel O’Malley, Jake Regensburg, Cashton Tate Rehklau, and Declan C Zhang
Cast:
Brenna Donahue
Talia Oliveras
Nile Harris
Aidan Hart
Kieran Graulich
Trevor Lown
Photographs courtesy of Felipe Tovar
FRANKENSTEIN
Company: Sarah Cook, Sara Kommer, Talia Oliveras, Reilly Hillbert, Nile Harris, Mateo Correa, Charlie Hurtt, Aidan Hart, Phil Kenner, Siena Yusi
Our troupe of ten artists led acting and writing workshops for the detainees inside Manhattan Detention Center. We used the mythology of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" as our starting point, and developed an adaptation both inside and outside the jail. This project culminated with showings in MDC for the detainees, and a public showing at The Tank followed by a open discussion about this kind of work.
This project was in part sponsored by the Stella Adler Acting Studio, which provides free acting classes for people who have been released from jail. By participating in the program with us, detainees would also earn a certificate of completion that could help with negotiating earlier release.
Poster designed by Benny Pitt
THE CONTENT GENERATION: comme Des Garçons
Created by Trevor Lown, Sara Kommer, and original music by the ensemble
Can a San Fernando Valley garage band handle the fresh meat that they are so desperate for? The veil between stale loser and rockstar is imposingly thin.
This rock musical was devised and composed by the team completely within the rehearsal room.
Aaron Vanek
Beau LaBranch
Cashel O'Malley
Issac Lopez
Jake Regensberg
Kiara Negroni
Kieran Graulich
Mariyea Jackson
Rajiv Awasthi
William Lorenz
Photos courtesy of Larissa Crawford-Lazarus
An untitled play about sluts
By Sara Kommer
Directed by Sarah Cook
A head-rush inducing journey of four cool girls through the underground techno scene of Berlin. It first appeared at Playwrights Horizons Downtown in April 2018, then at Dixon Place's Hot! Fest in July 2018.
Caitlin Cobb-Vialet
Eleanor Maples
Auveen Dezgaran
Joie Mitchell
Mateo Correa
Aigner Mizzelle
Talia Oliveras
Helene Estes
Rosalie Neal
Tate Rehklau
Dixon Place Presents: Hot! Fest. A festival of LGBTQ+ work. July 2018
Photos courtesy of Ben Searles
April 2018. Photos courtesy of Larissa Crawford-Lazarus
Offending the Audience
By Peter Handke
Directed by Sara Kommer
The audience is scum and they should know it. We'll entertain you, we'll insult you, and we'll applaud for you.
Featuring Kieran Graulich, Michael Jay, Chloe Priebe, and Raina Silver
Photographs courtesy of Alejandro Cervantes