Dig rehearsal from Tommy Smith on Vimeo.

Michael McQuilken (man in video) and I are going to Prague Theatre Festival later this month to perform our co-written show “A Day In Dig Nation”. We just re-staged the opening; Michael needed this for rehearsal purposes. Rehearsal space is my loft. Imagine an intricate projection sequence going on behind Michael, illustrating the sound & foley…

Musical from Reggie Watts on Vimeo.

Reggie Watts and I curate a performance event “Occurrence” at Ars Nova. Our show last week featured a commissioned piece by the Neo-Futurists, a standing monologue by Mike Daisey, Lathrop Walker, Beth Hoyt, Havilah Brewster and more. We also shoot short films for the event, and we paired this one with “On Playwriting”. Reggie and I wrote and directed this. I don’t really know what it means.

“On Playwriting” from Tommy Smith on Vimeo.

The first in a series of web videos commissioned by The New York Council for Poets and Playwrights (NYCPP).

PS122ILuvU from Reggie Watts on Vimeo.

I am a regular collaborator with Reggie Watts on experimental theatrical/filmic ventures. In this clip, Reggie plays for a fundraiser for New York Theatre Review 2008. I appear briefly at the start. This was in October 2007. (Oh yeah, and the 2008 NYTR comes out in Spring, edited by the unstoppable Brook Stowe, featuring a ton of great essays and plays, including my own WHITE HOT and an interview I did with Reggie about our UTR piece DISINFORMATION.)

Story of the Eye, Chapter Two from Tommy Smith on Vimeo.

Warning: Graphic.

(See Chapter One info for project details.)

Story of the Eye, Chapter One. from Tommy Smith on Vimeo.

I’m developing Georges Bataille’s “Story of the Eye” (1928) into an operatic play. Here is Chapter One.

Linguistically, the book is kind of a dare: Bataille keeps pushing offensive images in front of the reader to make him/her squirm. By reading it aloud, I’m trying to overcome my knee-jerk squeamishness to access the deeper themes running through the material.

Warning: VERY graphic language/situations/symbology.

For more info on Bataille:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bataille
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