DIRECTING
R+J: An Ultramodern Fantasia
Directed by Joy Nesbitt and Devonne Pitts
Produced by Allison Scharmann
Executive Produced by Pinwheel Productions and The Office for the Arts at Harvard
This was a production presented on zoom by Harvard BlackCAST during the summer of 2020. In addition to the online production streamed on youtube, I mixed and mastered a soundtrack for the show created by fellow student artists. This production was also a fundraiser for The Black Arts Futures Fund.
God of Carnage
Directed by Joy Nesbitt
Produced by The Harvard Office for the Arts
This production was presented by Harvard BlackCAST on Zoom. It was the first zoom production created by a Harvard student during the pandemic. Each of the four shows also had a fundraising aspect to it, and we were able to raise $10,000 for organizations associated with the support and care of Black lives as well as COVID-19 relief for imprisoned individuals.
Dreamgirls
Directed by Joy Nesbitt and Emily Orr
Music Directed by Joy Nesbitt
Produced by Nia Talley, Lacey Hines, and Allison Scharmann
This production was set to open in March of 2020 in the Oberon at the American Repertory Theater. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the show was cancelled right after the sitzprobe.
Mamma Mia
Directed by Ryan Kapur
Music Directed by Joy Nesbitt and Clay Oxford
Produced by Emily Orr, Aaron Olkin, Morgan Booker, and Angela Kim
Executive Produced by The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatics Club
This production was performed on the Mainstage at the American Repertory Theater in association with the Harvard Musical Theater Club.
A Very Potter Musical
Directed by Carla Troconis
Music Directed by Joy Nesbitt and Ana Olano
Produced by Sherry Gao
Executive Produced by The Harvard Radcliffe Dramatics Club
This production was performed in the Loeb Ex at the American Repertory Theater.
Additional Theater Credits
Assistant Director
Jack and the Beanstalk (dir. Rebecca Aparicio; Music dir. Ian Chan)
Music Assistant
We Live in Cairo (dir. Taibi Magar; Music dir. Madeline Smith)
Community Organizer
For Colored Girls (dir. Devonne Pitts)
Actor
Blood on the Cat's Neck (Mistress)
Beauty and the Beast (Lefou)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Chorus)
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (Scarlet Widow and Chorus)
Annie (Annie)
Short Films
Directed by Joy Nesbitt
Starring: Laura Frustaci and Joy Nesbitt
A study on the development of extreme emotion. We watch an unraveling individual get pushed to her limits. She is isolated from the ones she loves and is taken for granted by everyone else. We encounter a slow boil of emotion, a stirring physical and aural transformation into abject, unbridled rage.
Directed by Joy Nesbitt
Starring: Yvonne "Peggy" Smith and Shawna Nesbitt
An elderly woman shelters in place alone during a pandemic. Her daughter, who is unable to visit safely, brings her a gift to fill her absence. We develop empathy for our main character, and we see empathetic action in practice.
Directed by Joy Nesbitt
Starring: Tori Gudmundsson, Laura Frustaci, Devonne Pitts, Jonathan Castillo, Shawna Nesbitt, Ruva Chigwedere, Graham Buchanan, Frederick Tyler-Macbruce and Joy Nesbitt
A visual meditation on embodiment and a personal journey against body dysmorphia. We enter an uninterrupted intimate experience of studying the face of another human. We may feel watched, comforted, or disturbed by this experience. We reflect upon our own faces in relation to the faces we are seeing.
