In case you want to know where to find me:

June 13th - 18th: San Francisco

June 19th-21st: Lake Tahoe

June 22nd-circa July 7th: New York City => Dinner parties

circa July 7th-17th: Waterford, CT. The O’Neill Playwriting Conference => Observership

July 18th-August 2nd: Ithaca, NY. The Hangar Theatre Playwrights Lab

August 3rd-5th: Road trip from San Diego to Santa Fe: Theme => Ghost towns and Dinosaurs

August 5th-September 20th: Sante Fe, NM. The Santa Fe Art Institute

I’m so close to the end of my first year of grad school. Just six more musical adaptations to grade and then SUMMER.

I’m teaching two sections of Intro to Playwriting again in the Fall. Sign up! It will be like competitive drag racing. But with more alternative narrative stuctures.

Sometimes I fear I am more interested in making things interesting.

Which cultivates titillating conversation, but fewer friends.

She said, “Conversation is my seduction, so if you won’t engage me, I must engage someone in front of you.”

I’m done with my first screenplay! The process was like milking a fish, ie, difficult and in some ways resulted in a propulsion of fish eggs. But the result was worth it.

I’m the new Arts and Cultural Events Coordinator for the Graduate Student Association at UCSD > get ready to be cultured.

CLEMENTINE AND THE CYBER DUCKS
By Krista Knight with The ASSEMBLY
Presented in association with the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator

May 7th at 8pm
May 8th at 8pm
May 9th at 8pm and 10:30pm
In the wake of a global economic collapse, The Assembly brings you a play that interrogates capitalism, desire, and the American Dream. Clementine and the Cyber Ducks, created by The Assembly with playwright Krista Knight, is a dark comedic riff on the classic folk song set in California during the 1849 Gold Rush and the 1990s dot.com bubble. Clementine moves west with her father to strike it rich. As she gets sucked into a series of schemes and scams, the world transforms into an irrationally exuberant American Dream-scape full of shotgun-wielding sisters, angry miners, and a steampunk chorus of deviant ducks. Welcome to California.

Directed by Jess Chayes
Dramaturgy by Stephen Aubrey
Scenery by Nick Benacerraf
Assistant Scenery by Ethan Gould
Lighting by Greg Malen
Costumes by Andrea Lipsky-Karasz and Justine Lacy
Choreography by Kelly Klein
Sound by Asa Wember
Stage Management by Emily Rea

FEATURING Edward Bauer, Ben Beckley, Siobhan Doherty, Cara Francis, Patrick Kovach-Long, Emily Perkins, and Jeff Seal.

The Assembly Theater Project (formerly The American Story Project) is a New York based ensemble of multi-disciplinary artists formed by five Wesleyan University graduates. Assembly members seek to unite our varied interests in service of creating wide-reaching, unabashedly theatrical and rigorously researched ensemble performances that address the complexities of our ever-changing world. We embrace collaboration as the core of the creative process, developing all the elements of text, action, and design side-by-side within the rehearsal environment. The Assembly’s plays have been performed in Edinburgh and Connecticut as well as in multiple venues throughout New York City: The Ontological Theater, The Brick Theater, The Bowery Poetry Club, The Abingdon Theater Complex and The Flea.

The ASSEMBLY is: Stephen Aubrey - Resident Dramaturg, Edward Bauer - Resident Performer, Nick Benacerraf - Resident Designer, Jessica Chayes - Resident Director, Katey Rich - Resident Producer

Village Voice Review

CLEMENTINE AND THE CYBER DUCKS
by Krista Knight
directed by Adam Arian

A dark comedic riff on the classic folk song set during the 1849 Gold Rush and the 1990s dot.com bubble. Clementine moves to California with her father to strike it rich. As Clementine gets sucked into a series of schemes and scams, the world turns into an ecstatic American Dreamscape full of shotgun-wielding sisters, angry miners, and a steampunk chorus of deviant ducks.

TWO PERFORMANCES LEFT:
Friday, 4/24 at 8 PM
Saturday,4/25 at 2 PM

CLEMENTINE: Cate Campbell
BRIAN: Zach Harrison
CLIVE: Joel Gelman
REGINA: Anne Stella
CYBER DUCKS: Katie Willert
Naqiya Ebrahim
Shamira Turner

CLEMENTINE AND THE CYBER DUCKS is a FREE festival event.
To request tickets:
http://theatre.ucsd.edu/season/newplayfest/Clementinecomprequestform.html

* The online form says for UCSD students and faculty only, but that’s not the case. Anyone can reserve tickets. If your ticket request gets rejected - email Krista or Adam - they will get you in.

UP NEXT in NYC:
The Ontological Theater (as part of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater’s Incubator Residency Program)
May 7-9, 2009 with THE ASSEMBLY theater company.
http://www.ontological.com/INCUBATOR/assembly.html

This festival is made possible by a generous donation from Ken & Ginger Baldwin

photos by Jim Carmody

I think I’m somewhat of a squirrel when it comes to human relationships: very curious, but when tried to be picked up, will scamper away.

“’Sometimes above and sometimes under’: that is the prevailing mystery of duck—existing in between the elements, in between reality and imagination, unstable creature that it is.”

♫ If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidae on our hands.