Works in PROCESS

Associate Creative Producer | The Slaying of Innocence

The Slaying of Innocence is a music-theatre work that emerges from the lived experience of African American men who have served and are currently serving prison sentences, in particular, Eric Anderson, and Wayland Coleman. Co-created by André de Quadros, Eric, and Wayland, the narrative incorporates their challenges in living life on the inside and the outside. Their stories are vividly told through rich and compelling poetry and poignant rap. The Slaying of Innocence fuses storytelling, music, and visual art to create a compelling artistic testimony about America’s broken and racialized justice system and the triumph of hope. The Slaying of Innocence crosses many cultural and aesthetic lines, impacting many different communities in its realization. The confluence of these artists from different mediums welcomes broad and inclusive audiences who respond to classical, contemporary, and popular music as well as theatre and spoken word/poetry slams. A large-scale version featuring immersive visual projections will be available for tours to national performing arts centers. These presentations aim to build awareness of our failed justice system, how it disproportionately affects African Americans, and how it has become the 21st-century version of Jim Crow. A second, more intimate version will tour detention centers nationally.

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Premiering Fall 2025

Producing Executive Director | La Tragédie de Carmen

Boston Opera Collaborative presents La Tragédie de Carmen, a Peter Brook adaptation of Bizet’s classic Carmen. In this powerful and seductive 90-minute re-interpretation, Brook brings the original's immensely popular and melodic favorites and trims the story to a taut and fast-paced tragedy of four people from contrasting cultures and traditions.

The opera is a mesmerizing tale following Carmen, a fiercely independent woman who catches the attention of the young, naive soldier, Don José. He then falls head over heels for her, abandoning his childhood love, Micaëla. As Don José's love and lust for Carmen strengthens, his passion devolves into jealousy and murder. The intricate plot, rich with emotion and drama, leaves audiences spellbound and dazzled as the tragic consequences of Don José's obsession with Carmen unfold before our very eyes.

La Tragédie de Carmen features a 15-piece chamber orchestra led by our new Music Director, Ken Yanagisawa, stage direction by Alexandra Dietrich, and the talents of Boston's up-and-coming emerging artists.

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Opening April 4, 2024

Steering Committee Member & Performer | The Captivity of Hannah Dustin

Amidst a social backdrop of the nation wrestling with its monuments and troubled histories, The Captivity of Hannah Duston investigates the legacy of the first American woman to have a public statue in her honor, Hannah Duston of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Controversial even in her lifetime (1657-c.1737), Duston’s story of her abduction by Native Americans during the King William’s War and her escape and slaying of her captors raises many ethical questions. Notable authors, Cotton Mather, John Greenleaf Whittier, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau and Sarah Josepha Hale retold the story over a period of 150 years—contradicting and attacking each other’s version of the story, employing Duston as a narrative pawn, much like current broadcast media anchors spin stories to their demographic's political leanings.

Grammy Award-winning composer Lansing McLoskey and librettist Glen Nelson use historic texts by notable authors, set into a contemporary frame, to call into question absolute notions of history and truth, and employ the Duston accounts to provoke a reassessment of national heroes and their stories.

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