2025–26
The Play of Robin and Marion by Adam de la Halle (Le Jeu de Robin et Marion, 1283), Organized by UCLA Early Music Ensemble and L.A. Camerata
The Picture of Dorian Gray, presentation by Box Tale Soup
2024–25
La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina (The Liberation of Ruggiero from the Island of Alcina), 400th Anniversary Performance of the First Woman-Composed Opera, Organized by UCLA Early Music Ensemble and L.A. Camerata
Appreciation of Kunqu Opera Performance: Techniques and Characteristics, organized by Yinghui Wu, University of California, Los Angeles, and Kunqu Opera Society USA
2022–23
Gulliver, performed by Box Tale Soup
2019–20
A Wilde Picnic: A Reading of The Importance of Being Earnest performed by Chalk Repertory Theatre
Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers co-hosted with Opera UCLA and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
2018–19
The Picture of Dorian Gray developed and performed by the UK’s Box Tale Soup
Tea With Shaw directed by Laura Stribling with actors from Chalk Rep’s company.
2017–18
The Widow of Valencia a dramatic reading directed by Michael Hackett (UCLA)
Polonaise-Fantasie, Story of a Pianist. A recital-monologue by Inna Faliks
2016–17
UCLA Opera
Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove, composer, and Alasdair Middleton, librettist
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Reading of Juan Ruiz de Alarcón’s What We Owe Our Lies (Los empeños de un engaño)
2015–16
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Reading of Lope de Vega’s A Wild Night in Toledo (La noche toledana)
2014–15
Playwrights’ Arena
Golden Tongues 3
- The Blade of Jealousy by Henry Ong
adapted from Tirso de Molina’s Le celosa de si misma (Jealous of Herself)
—directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera - Dawg in the 626 by Annette Lee
adapted from Lope de Vega’s El perro del hortelano (The Dog in the Manger
—directed by Diane Rodriguez
Chalk Repertory Theatre
Reading of Lope de Vega’s Women and Servants (Mujeres y criados)
Bruce Whiteman, poet
“New Books, New Work”
Fundación Siglo de Oro
Entre Marta y Lope, a contemporary play by Geraldo Malla and Santiago Miralles about the last days of Lope de Vega
2013–14
Playwrights’ Arena
Golden Tongues 2
- Unhappily Married in Valencia by Laurel Ollstein
adapted from Guillén de Castro’s Los mal casados de Valencia (1618)
—directed by Jennifer Chang - Goat Springs Eternal! by Paula Cizmar
adapted from Lope de Vega’s Fuenteovejuna (1619)
—directed by Douglas Clayton - Fixed by Boni B. Alvarez
adapted from Calderón de la Barca’s El médico de su honra (1637)
—directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera
Chalk Repertory Theatre
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
Opera UCLA
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato by George Frideric Händel
David Boceta and Isabel Rodes
Behind the Scenes: “The Construction of Character: From Verse to Prose” (workshop)
Pianist Mark Robson and Curator Daniel Rothman
“A Musical Offering: De Profundis” by Frederic Rzewski, based on Oscar Wilde’s letter
Chalk Repertory Theatre
Reading of Guillén de Castro’s The Force of Habit
Lubkinfinds Theatre Co.
The Broken Token, a new play by Elizabeth Kuti, University of Essex
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Reading of Lewis Theobald’s Double Falsehood, based on a play by William Shakespeare and John Fetcher
2012–13
Counter-Balance Theater
The Dwarf, a devised theater production based on a Pars Lagerkvist’s novel
Chalk Repertory Theatre
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde
Playwrights’ Arena
Golden Tongues
- Cervantes Interludes by Oliver Mayer
adapted from Cervantes’ El juez de los divorcios and El rufián dichoso
—directed by Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx - Cause Célèbre by Velina Hasu Houston
adapted from Ana Caro’s Valor, agravio y mujer (1630s)
—directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera - Painting in Red by Luis Alfaro
adapted from Calderón de la Barca’s El pintor de su deshonra (1640s)
—directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera
L.A. Theatre Works
The Liar (Le menteur), a radio-style theater production of Pierre Corneille’s play
Mary Ruefle, Vermont College
“Erasure Poetry”
L.A. Theatre Works
Pride and Prejudice, a radio-style theater production of Jane Austen’s novel
2011–12
Opera UCLA, UCLA Early Music Ensemble, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, an operatic scena for three voices by Claudio Monteverdi
UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Alvaro Cardona-Hine, poet
“Young Light, Extinguished Light”
UCLA Early Music Ensemble
“Contested Songs: Music across the Atlantic”
Image: Performance of La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola di Alcina in the Clark’s Outdoor Amphitheater; photo credit: Reed Hutchinson