Theatre Work
As a playwright/director, Crockett is best known for her adaptations of classic works of literature and philosophy. Her spoken word opera (or, the whale)—an adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick written and directed by Crockett with music by sonic artist and Avatar: The Last Airbender composer Jeremy Zuckerman—debuted in Los Angeles in 2001. It was also presented at the 2001 Moby Dick Conference at Hofstra University and also performed by the TENT group in Portland, Maine. The Dawn of Quixote: Chapter the First, an adaptation of the first chapter of Don Quixote by Cervantes, has been performed several times in Los Angeles and was featured in EdgeFest and EdgeFetish, a Los Angeles cutting edge theater festival, and in the spirit of Don Quixote performed without an admission charge for the EdgeFest performances (gleaning partial standing ovations from the audiences), as well as being made part of the Saturday Explorer Series at the 24th Street Theatre. Most recently, the play was presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland at Venue 13, produced in part by California Institute of the Arts. Crockett's band, The Evangenitals, provided the live score for the play. Orpheus Crawling, an experimental opera based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, was composed by Zuckerman, with libretto and direction by Crockett. Orpheus Crawling was workshopped at the 24th Street Theatre and premiered in NOW Fest at the REDCAT in Los Angeles in August 2007. Crockett's original work, History of Water, premiered at the 24th Street Theater's Saturday Explorer Series on May 10, 2008 and was performed as part of the Downtown Film Festival's Sustainable LA festivities.
History of Water and The Dawn of Quixote have been adapted as radio dramas and performed on KPFK's Pacifica Performance Showcase and are available in the Pacifica Radio Archives.
Crockett's directing-only credits include Bertolt Brecht's In The Jungle of Cities at the Red Room in New York City, Living in Boxes at the Salvation Theater in Los Angeles, and the US Premier of R. Murray Schafer's Loving at the CalArts Modular Theater.
In addition to writing and directing experimental theater, Crockett has studied modern dance and choreography, improv at the iO WEST in Hollywood.
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