I have directed a wide range of genres and styles from sketch comedy and revues to naturalistic and experimental dramas, to musicals and avant-garde operas.
My productions are always engaging, professional, and fun. I most enjoy the collaborative process and pride myself on my ability to seamlessly integrate the contributions of my fellow theater artists into the production of a cohesive theatrical piece, designed to be fulfilling for both the audience and the artists involved.
The New York chapter of Opera On Tap has commissioned composer/librettist team Sankaram – Reese to create an environmental, operatic, Agatha Christie style murder mystery. Our preliminary workshops on the piece have received an astounding response and the premiere has been tentatively scheduled for Spring of ’14.
Voice Afire’s My Life with Pablo Neruda is an original “Pocket Opera” Written and composed by Ramond Leudeke which tells the story of the revolutionary Nobel Prize winning poet and his long suffering wife Matilde.
By Rob Reese
Composed by Eric Brenner and Matt Schloss
The Musical Comedy Revue Of Biblical Proportions!
Our developmental process included a series of readings with a divinely talented cast.
Click here for info on our appearance at the 2013 Ars Nova ANT Festival
By Rob Reese
This ripe, ribald parody of reality television puts a group of eager contestants in the middle of the War in Vietnam, where they vie for a $1 million grand prize, if they survive.
Read the script at indie theater now
Adapted for the stage by Rob Reese
Original music by Weldon T. Anderson
A text-faithful, experimental, music and movement rich adaptation of Mary Shelley’s masterwork presenting The Monster as a psychologically divided chorus.
The show has been subsequently licensed and produced in Wisconsin and Malaysia.
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By Rob Reese
New York, NY
“Nothing less than theatrical alchemy.” ” A kind of gay fantasia on Keanu Reeves Themes”
-J. Claude Deering, OffOffOnline
Improvisation
New York, NY
The Flatiron Lab is a collective of theatrical improvisers, musicians, and dancers combining to create an immediate and unique “total theater piece” without a script.
By Sandra Perlman
A striking naturalist drama about young Ohio woman’s journey beginning with nursery rhymes and ending with the confrontation of her husband’s fears and lies, her mother’s manipulation and her father’s lost dreams.
By Carl Reiner
The hilarious absurdist comedy featuring a semi-naturalistic 1930’s kitchen, a very naturalistic dead turtle, and two complete sets of real life twins!
By William Shakespeare
Four Beers + Four Bars + One Bard =
The New York Shakespeare Exchange’s ShakesBEER pub crawl!