Past Work
1995 CALIFORNIA SEAGULL
Directed by Bill Rauch
Adapted by Alison Carey
Performed at Santa Monica Place shopping mall
This adaptation of Chekhov was set on a contemporary California vineyard. Critic’s Choice Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Reader & Backstage West.
1994 TWELFTH NIGHT, OR AS YOU WERE
Directed by Bill Rauch.
Adapted by Alison Carey
Performed at Taper, Too, Los Angeles, CA.
Shakespeare’s comedy set poolside on a contemporary Southern California naval base. Winner of 6 Drama-Logue Awards including Outstanding Production. Named Best of 1994 by the Los Angeles Reader & Village View. Ovation Award winner: Best Actor, Christopher Liam Moore.
1997 TOKEN, ALIEN
Written by Christopher Liam Moore
Directed by Bill Rauch
Produced at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art
Centerpiece production at the bUS pLAys Festival
In their desire to involve artists whose works often exist outside of traditional art world contexts and audiences, MOCA invited Cornerstone to participate in the four-month exhibit Uncommon Sense. In addition to creating Token, Alien, we invited past collaborators to create with us along with members of the Bus Riders Union and employees of the MTA, in an 8-play festival all taking place on a city bus inside the museum.
1996 MALLIÈRE
Directed by Bill Rauch.
Adapted by Alison Carey
Performed at Santa Monica Place shopping mall
Three Molière farces transported to a Southern California shopping mall. Ovation Award Nomination: Best Supporting Actor, Shishir Kurup.
1998 MEDEA/MACBETH/CINDERELLA
Co-directed by Bill Rauch and Tracy Young.
Written by Euripides, as translated by Paul Roche, Shakespeare and Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein.
Euripides’, Shakespeare’s, and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classics of populist theater performed on one stage simultaneously, three-ring circus-style. Produced in collaboration with the Actors’ Gang. Performed at The Actors’ Gang Theater, Hollywood, CA. LA Weekly Awards: Best Ensemble, Best Director(s), and Best Leading Actress, Page Leong.
1999 FOOT/MOUTH
Directed by Christopher Liam Moore
Performed at Montclair Plaza, One Colorado, Pasadena, and Santa Monica Place shopping malls
This site-specific play combined Samuel Beckett’s Footfalls and Alison Carey’s adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s The Man with the Flower in His Mouth and used infrared headsets for the audience to eavesdrop on the private conversations of actors playing shoppers. Performances:.
2000 AN ANTIGONE STORY
Written and Directed by Shishir Kurup
Performed at The Getty Center and at the Subway Terminal Building in downtown Los Angeles.
A version of the Greek classic set in 2015 Los Angeles. Featuring eight original songs, the production was commissioned by the Getty Center. LA Weekly and Los Angeles Times “Best of 2000” lists.
2002 MARY SHELLEY’S SANTA CLAUS: PRESENCE IN BOXES
Directed by Mark Valdez
Written by Erik Ehn
Performed at The Furious Theatre, Armory Northwest, Pasadena.
This holiday show with a witty twist was a unique theatrical and multi-media experience, using video and extensive puppetry.
2006 AS YOU LIKE IT
Adapted by Alison Carey from William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Rauch
Bill’s last directing project as Artistic Director for the company, co-produced with and performed at the Pasadena Playhouse.
2009 On Caring for the Beast
Written and Directed by Shishir Kurup
Performed at Rosenthal Theater at Inner-City Arts
Follow six characters as they embark on parallel psychological, physical, and spiritual journeys through darkness into pain, and ultimately towards…light?
On Caring for the Beast is a study of the struggle between spirit and flesh, hope and despair, love and fear. Is the battle ever won?
