Projects

Red Blooded with Mercury Cinema

Currently on the festival circuit I produced this film in 2022 and it has received multiple awards. So grateful for this experience. IMDB Page Link

The Conversation

Brought a group of women together to find out what they wanted to talk about. Politics or not, their bodies, their lives, what wasn’t being said, what wasn’t being brought up that affected their lives. Spoken word, monologues, poetry, essays, they wrote and I wrote and we performed it live and put it live on Facebook for Swan Day. The first performance was in 2017 and we raised money for ArtReach and A Reason to Survive, in 2018 for El Nido, a transitional housing project for families surviving domestic violence and making new lives for themselves. We’re gearing up for 2020, big show, lots to say.

New Play Café

photos courtest of Paul Savage Photography

New Play Cafe was the brain child of myself, my spouse Kevin and our friend Liz Silverman We produced 3 short-play workshop productions at the Big Kitchen and Demi Cafe with local San Diego playwrights and actors.We were invited to participate in the 2017 San Diego International Fringe Festival and we brought Out to Lunch, featuring local playwrights including one from Playwrights Project’s Out of the Yard program. We had 5 playwrights and we invited other participants from Fringe to participate in our “Short Order Playwright” series where the audience suggested a place, time era and genre that our playwright then wrote a short play during our performance and then was performed by our ensemble.

Press:

San Diego Union Tribune

San Diego Reader

KPBS San Diego

Complex Girls Web Series

The denizens of an apartment turned condo complex in Southern California have loads of time and bad ideas.

Black out! A new play for Young Audiences 2012

Blackout

Devised by Opehqueh founded by Marisol Best and Crystal Mercardo and funded by the San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst Fund, this new play was developed specifically for Young Audiences. I had the honor of not only being a part of the creation and writing process, but I got to perform as one of the characters I helped create. The play is currently being revised but hopes to be in another form in front of audiences soon!

 InnerMission Productions

While we have folded operations we did a lot of good together. Check out our history on our Facebook Page.