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