Upcoming Projects
Big Love
By Charles L. Mee
Directed by Kirsten Brandt
Nevada Conservatory Theatre
Black Box Theatre
Preview night: September 24, 2026
Runs September 24 Sept- October 4, 2026
Love is a mess. Matrimony is deadly. Fifty sisters flee to an Italian villa to avoid marrying their fifty cousins. In an irreverent and chaotic adaptation of Aeschylus' The Suppliant Women, Big Love tackles relationships with mayhem, rage, heartache, and bloodshed. A thunderous opening to the 26-27 season.
Playwriting work currently in development.
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52
In August of 2020 wildfires raged through California. We were evacuated from our home for almost three weeks. When we returned, we were under a “don’t boil don’t drink” mandate with the water department. And we were the lucky ones.
Now I live in Las Vegas, where the issue of water is a daily relality and temperatures reach 115 degrees in the summer.
I began 52 in 2022, but had to stop for a variety of reasons. I am relauncing this series of impressions, one artistic exploration for every week of the year beginning in Septemeber of 2026. These mediations on the climate will take a variety of forms: poems, flash fiction, short plays and monologues, photography or visual art. The series will conclude in Septemeber of 2027.
Image: Adobe Stock
Grendel’s Mother
A radical feminist retelling of the Beowulf story as seen through the eyes of Grendel’s Mother by Kirsten Brandt.
Cast of 5.
Grendel’s Mother received a staged reading at the Center for Monster Studies’ Festival of Monsters summer of 2022 at UC Santa Cruz, the performance starred Patty Gallagher as Grendel’s Mother, Kinan Valdez as Beowulf, and Artis Anderson, Zoe Adams, and Abi Coomes as The Disir.
Photo: Adobe Stock: Beneath The Surface by David Edwards
40 Elephants
A musical about an all female Victorian era crime syndicate that terrorized London for over 100 years. Book and lyrics by Kirsten Brandt
Photo: Adobe Stock image by razoomanetu
Gewgaw: or the shit all over the house
Cast of 6
A dutiful trip to grandma’s goes awry when everyone arrives to an empty house. Catherine, along with her three feuding daughters and granddaughter, contend with sibling rivalries, entitlement, betrayal, and all the damn tchotchkes grandma left behind.
Image: Dalle-2 AI