INTERNATIONAL

CONJUR WOMAN (a Blues Opera)
by Beatrice Manley, music by Ellen Stewart, 
Teatro La Communita, Rome, Italy

THE LADY AOI
by Yukio Mishima,  Meta Theatre, Munich, Germany

PERCUSSION SUMMIT 
music by Max Roach, Tony Williams, Ginger Baker and M’Boom ,
The Coliseum, Verona, Italy

ANNA O’S PRIVATE THEATRE premiere
by Melissa Goodman, Oxford, Eng.

COWBOY MOUTH (IN CONCERT)
by Sam Shepard & Patti Smith, Berlin, German tour



REGIONAL

MIDSUMMER’S NIGHT DREAM
by Shakespeare, music by Roach, San Diego Rep

MENSCH MEIER
by Franz Krotz,  Cleveland Playhouse

THE HAIRY APE
by Eugene O’Neill, music by Roach, Berkeley Rep

QUEEN OF THE LEAKY ROOF CIRCUIT premiere
by Jimmy Breslin, Actors Theater of Louisville

SHADOW OF A GUNMAN
by Sean O’Casey, Syracuse Stage

THE HAIRY APE
by O’Neill, music by Roach, Pittsburgh Public

THE MOJO AND THE SAY SO premiere
by Aisha Rahman, Crossroads, N.J.

TOOTH OF CRIME
by Shepard, Syracuse Stage

ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT
by Alan Bleasdale, San Diego Rep

DEATHRAFT
by Heinrich Muller, Cleveland Playhouse

THE LIFE AND LIFE OF BUMPY JOHNSON (A Bopera) premiere
by Amiri Baraka, music by Roach, San Diego Rep

SHEPARD SETS
3 plays by Shepard, music by Roach, Syracuse Stage
(Angel City, Back Bog Beast Bait, Suicide in Bb)

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
by Sondheim, Green Mountain Guild Summer Theatre, VT

BABES IN ARMS
by Rogers and Hart, Green Mountain Guild

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NEW YORK 2000’s

LINCOLN ON HESTER STREET premiere
by Lu Hauser, Theater For a New City (TNC)

SOUL ASCENDING
workshop, music & book Fernando Rivas, La MaMa

THE WARZONE IS MY BED premiere
by Yasmine Rana, La MaMa

AUDITIONING ANGELS US premiere
by Pieter-Dirk Uys, La MaMa

CONJUR WOMAN (a Blues Opera)
by Beatrice Manley, music by Ellen Stewart, La MaMa

THE TOOTH OF CRIME
by Shepard, La MaMa

FEAR ITSELF (Secrets of the White House) premiere
by Jean-Claude van Itallie, TNC

WHY HANNA'S SKIRT WON'T STAY DOWN
by Tom Eyen, La MaMa

NUDE WITH VIOLIN
by Noel Coward, Amateur Comedy Club (ACC)

PIECEWORK premiere
by Robyn Burland, TNC

MOTEL
by van Itallie, La MaMa

THE LAST TWO JEWS OF KABUL premiere
by Josh Greenfeld, La MaMa

THREE VALISES premiere
by Stan Kaplan, La MaMa

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NEW YORK 1990’s

JU JU  
music by Roach and M’Boom choreography by Donald Byrd, video by Kit Fitzgerald,
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

BLOODLETTING premiere
by Michael C. D’Antonio, La MaMa

PICNIC
by William Inge, Marymount Manhattan College

TRIBUTE TO MILES
Maya Angelou, Baraka, Roach, Byrd, Cathedral of St. John the Divine

THE PLOW AND THE STARS
by O’Casey,  Marymount

PARADISE IS CLOSING DOWN
by Uys , African Arts

WINTERMAN
book and music by Andy Tierstien, La MaMa

WE INSIST  
book by Janus Adams, music by Roach, Aaron Davis Hall

HEY BUDDY premiere
by Bryan Goluboff, American Jewish Theatre

PANORAMA
by Uys, African Arts

HAPPY END
by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, ACC

THE CO-OP premiere
by Esteban Fernandez Sanchez, LaMaMa

MARY premiere
by Tom Wilson, La MaMa

GULLIVER
by Lonnie Carter,  La MaMa

GHOSTS: LIVE FROM GALILEE (The Scottsboro Boys Blues Opera) premiere
by Edgar Nkosi White,music by Genji Ito, La MaMa

ANY PLACE BUT HERE premiere
by Caridad Svich, INTAR

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NEW YORK 1980’s

HARMS WAY premiere
by Mac Wellman, La MaMa

MONEY (the jazz opera) premiere
by Baraka, music by George Gruntz, La MaMa

WELCOME BACK TO SALAMANCA premiere
by Migdalia Cruz, music by Rivas, INTAR

Damnee Manon, SacrEe Sandra
by Michel Tremblay, La MaMa

PARIS LIGHTS premiere
by Mike Zettler, music by Bill Russo, American Place Theatre

TOOTH OF CRIME
by Shepard, La MaMa

THE SPACE SHOW premiere
by Ensemble, TNC

SHEPARD SETS 3 plays
by Shepard and Roach, La MaMa

DELICATE FEELINGS premiere
by Roslyn Drexler and Fran Rosenthall, TNC

IMPACT premiere
by Samsul Allam, INTAR

49
by Hanay Giegomah, La MaMa

BOY AND TARZAN APPEAR IN A CLEARING premiere
by Baraka and Hugh Masakeela, New Federal Theatre

MAD DOG BLUES
by Shepard, music by Bob Jewett, New York University

BATTERY premiere
by Dan Therriault, St. Clements

COWBOY MOUTH (IN CONCERT) 
by Shepard and Smith, Wonderhorse

PLEASE HANG UP AND DIAL AGAIN
by Zettler, ACC

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NEW YORK 1970’s

THE HAIRY APE
by O’Neill, Impossible Ragtime Theater (IRT)

NEW LIVING NEWSPAPER premiere
by Ensemble, Cultural Council Foundation – Theater Row

JUNGLE OF CITIES
by Brecht, IRT

DYNAMO
by O’Neill,  IRT

INCIDENT AT VICHY
by Arthur Miller, ACC

JULIUS CAESAR
by Shakespeare, IRT

SUMMER OF THE 17th DOLL
by Ron Lawley, IRT

DOES A TIGER WEAR A NECKTIE
by Don Peterson, IRT

WHERE’S THE BEER OF FRITZ premiere
by Michael Roth and Daniel Schrier, IRT,

WHISPER INTO MY GOOD EAR
by Arthur Haley, Theater in Space

ALL THINGS FLOW
by Jack Shoemaker, Mercer Arts Center

CRY OF PLAYERS
by William Gibson ACC

KEEP TIGHTLY CLOSED IN A COOL, DRY, PLACE
by Megan Terry, Mercer Arts Center

BRECHT ON BRECHT
by Tabori, All Angels Players



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