I Have To Pay My Rent - Presented in the 2022 Free Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the second full-length production by Tree.Lock//Productions
Created by Sterling Melcher
Performed by Sterling Melcher and Connor Hogan
Directed by Savannah Reich and Connor Hogan
Sound Design by Tom Carman
Video Credit - John Hawthorne
SplitScreen: a dual-city, simultaneous dance duet - presented through the 2019 Minnesota and Philadelphia Fringe Festival
the debut Tree.Lock//Productions production
Created and Performed by Sterling Melcher and Meg Kirchhoff
Original Music by Tom Carman
Developed through Springboard for the Arts and the Hinge Arts Residency in Fergus Falls, MN
Photo Credit - John Hawthorne
See also the Facebook Live feed for a video of the show from Sterling’s side: https://www.facebook.com/sterling.melcher/videos/10220443654102530/
Primary Realities: A Lecture In Response to Bomb Cyclones, Geodesic Domes, Chaos Theory, and Global Expenditure After R. Buckminster Fuller
Created by Mike Durkin, Sterling Melcher, and Nick Schwasman
Recorded Live at PhillyCAM, November 2, 2018
See also the Facebook Live feed from Isaac’s perspective: https://www.facebook.com/durkin44/videos/10102965486618158/
minni/delphi - an improv, modern dance duet over Google Hangout - work-in-progress presented in the 2018 SoLow Festival in Philadelphia
Created by Sterling Melcher and Meg Kirchhoff
Video credit - John Hawthorne
I Am the Machine Gunner - Presented in the 2017 Philadelphia Fringe Festival @ Firth & Wilson Transport Cycles
By Yury Klavdiev, Translated by John Freedman
Directed by Sarah Gardner, Original Music created and performed by John Hawthorne
Photo Credit - Amy Taylor : Video Credit - Bob Sweeney (contact me for access to video below)
Special thanks - Gina Murdock, Bob Sweeney, Crime and Punishment Brewing Co., Pig Iron Theater, Headlong Performance Institute, Philip Arnoult, Werks Bearhouse, Devin Preston
Password - mg
I Am the Machine Gunner (work-in-progress through SoLow Fest) @ Werks Bearhouse
By Yury Klavdiev, Translated by John Freedman
Directed by Sarah Gardner, Music by John Hawthorne
Photo Credit - Amy Taylor
Documentation of various public performances at the UArts/Pig Iron Devised Performance MFA.
Photos by Lindsay Browning, courtesy UArts/Pig Iron School
Below photography from various productions