Part art installation, part immersive theater, A Dozen Dreams, produced by En Garde Arts and co-created by Anne Hamburger, John Eisner and myself, invited the spectators on a visual-audio journey through a labyrinth-like environment of dreams and reflections on the global pandemic and the societal reckonings of 2020 by twelve NYC female playwrights.

I physicalized the dreams into a dozen of expressive environments linked together in a serpentine dreamscape which took over a 4,500 square foot retail space within the Brookfield Place luxurious mall, along with parts of its spacious Winter Garden lobby.

A Dozen Dreams was a piece of its time, not only in terms of its content but also the form: it questioned the idea that a relation of co-presence between live actors and spectators is a fundamental aspect of live theatre and performance. By going beyond the expectation of a traditional performer-audience co-presence we offered spectators an immersion within their surrounding environments, challenging the canonical views on presence, acting and spectating.