![]() Also a NYT Critics’ Pick, The Line garnered rave reviews from coast to coast and was viewed by over 85,000 people in 50 countries. Created in less than two months, THE LINE was a real-time response to the COVID-19 crisis as it unfolded, and was the second major national digital theater production during the pandemic. When its run was cut short by COVID-19, we pivoted and wrote The Line, a documentary play based on firsthand interviews with NYC medical first responders at the height of the pandemic, starring Lorraine Toussaint, John Ortiz, and Nicholas Pinnock. ![]() ![]() Our 2020 documentary play Coal Country, about West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, had a critically acclaimed world premiere at the Public Theater, with original music written and performed by Grammy-award winning musician Steve Earle (Edgerton New Play Award, 2 Drama Desk noms, Lortel Award nom, NYT Critics’ Pick). Our play How to Be a Rock Critic (based on the writings of Lester Bangs), played sold-out runs at the Kirk Douglas, Steppenwolf, South Coast Rep, ArtsEmerson and the Public Theater Erik starred and I directed. In 2008, we traveled to Jordan on a grant from the Ford Foundation to interview Iraqi refugees for our documentary play Aftermath I directed its Off-Broadway premiere at New York Theater Workshop (NYT Critics’ Pick, 2 Drama League noms) as well as its 2 year international tour. We adapted The Exonerated into an award-winning TV movie starring Danny Glover, Delroy Lindo and Susan Sarandon. I write and direct for film, television, and theater and I direct on-camera content for socially conscious companies and organizations.Įrik Jensen and I are a multihyphenate husband and wife writing team who the New Yorker calls “the foremost practitioners of documentary theater in the US.” Together, we are authors of The Exonerated, a genre-defining play based on interviews we conducted with death row exonerees across the US (Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Ovation, Fringe First, Herald Angel Awards NAACP Image Award nominee awards from the American Bar Association, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, named “Best Play of the Year” by the New York Times).
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