This piece was created in 2005 for an evening of performance I was asked to curate at the Hideout Theatre in conjunction with "No Shame Theater."

This piece was my first attempt in tackling the concept of insecurities. In "What's All the Croaking About?", the pig-masked individual strives for an ideal that is totally out of his reach, and goes so far as to slowly strips away at who he is to become this ideal.Once he does become what he has longed to be, he is, literally,no longer himself.

"The Leontyne Price to Pay" was a piece I wrote and performed with Kimberly Pollini, a vocalist/ songwriter and frequent performance collaborator. It also debuted at the Hideout i 2005 for the evening of performance I curated for No Shame Theater.