conducted by eppchez yo-sí yes
conducted by eppchez yo-sí yes
I asked for a bucket of transparent paint to coat the black box
of my creative process. All I got was this stylish website template.
A bulletin board for sharing projects | A sounding board for developing ideas.
A soul's engine chugs along... Research... Invent... Let it ripen.... Invent... Perform...
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In abundance,
&> eppchez yo-sí yes
July 13, 2024 at 7:30 pm Play Penn will produce a development reading, a drastically new draft of a decade-old play
Junk Redemption.
This fall Alma’s Engine is collaborating with Chinkapin Craftstead to produce my new Play CODEx!
Join me in Tennessee for this Do-it-Communally production. October 25-27.
Currently Available Work:
Guided Transmutation! This is a new audio experiment, kind of like a guided meditation but a little more active, asking participants to learn about the somatic/embodied experience of transformational decision points.
Appear To Me: A new site-specific audio play by Eppchez! Written for Swimpony Performing Arts’ exciting project Trailoff. This app contains 10 plays that are site-specific to different walking trails around South Eastern Pennsylvania.
The filmed version of Publik Private is available to stream. This iteration of Eppchez’s solo historical inquiry through clown and puppetry was made possible through Boston University. The film debuted for students and faculty at BU in late October 2020. Contact Alma’s Engine with an inquiry to access the video for personal use. If your organization is interested in sharing this exciting new theater/film hybrid, book a screening!!!
My play They Extract! is featured on the Theater Viscera Podcast. Listen to the episode
Darb Garb is an applied puppetry project to create wearable, gender-affirming artwork. Commissions are open.
Euphorm is a new company founded to produce trans affirming, shape-shifting designs. As a founding designer, eppchez is excited to make eir novel chest binding garment widely available.
Watch Eppchez’s keynote “Repairing Broken harmfully designed Foundations” to Quakers at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting 2022
eppchez brings Darb Garb to trans art markets and conferences all over. upcomming:
Hey, do you know of any grassroots campaigns organizing passionately to protect our planet from ourselves? Help connect me to them! Lets organize a ton of fundraisers for these heroes of the anthropocene.
Contact Alma's Engine to scheduled a site specific performance for your group.
Any bridge that goes over a river will do.
Some private things - if we want to live - have to be made public - in the way that our bodies become public when we go outside where we will be perceived.
In this bilingual solo performance I explore the lives of two trans ancestors who made space for themselves in their own absurd eras. The three of us have a lot of processing to share.
"They Extract!" is a full length work of physical theater that explores how commodification changes the resources that are most precious to us. Oil has been gone and Love™ is extracted as an energy source. The play follows a scientist and father, Vera his daughter, and the Loving Mine she falls for.
A Baltimore art gallery "discovers" an isolated self-taught sculptor living in a secluded forest clearing. semi-magical world where their trauma lives in their sculptures, that are brought to life by the ghost of their twin brother. when a
This workshop uses songs, story telling and worship sharing to help communities already engaged in confronting systemic White Supremacy, to become more comfortable with the inherent discomfort of this work, and embrace the joyful parts of engaging with transformation of self and institutional structures in your in daily life. I use my own experiences and reflections as a White-passing person to notice how Whiteness functions in my life and invite participants into a vulnerable space of reflection around this topic that we have been so carefully taught to ignore.
I think that hills are very exciting! Gravity functions differently on hills making bodies move in strange and disorienting ways, tickling my thoughts - provoking metaphors. I would like to explore how to use hills to talk about bias and micro aggression. I would like to explore how to use hills to talk about other things too. I would like to explore how this metaphor changes during different seasons - with different surfaces: grass, leaves, snow, mud. This is probably a film.
Topsy Pendejo is chaffing at the bits, inventing a theory of sexiness that is not about gender. Between burlesque, drag, boylesque, and lounge crooning there must be something else. I'm imagining a form where my glitter-phobic feral troll soul can really let fly, where my enthusiasm for designing whimsical prosthetic parts joins with movement and song parody. Audiences may surprise themselves!
I have a slew of new songs. Haunting, weird, hard and heartfelt music, ready to play at your venue or house show. This track is a live recording of that bergeoning sound.
An ongoing performance project. Improvising music in collaboration with audience passersby. Using the sounds of the street to inspire beats, and the thoughts, prayers and overheard conversations of strangers to build lyrics and melody.
released 03 July 2013
Random recordings
Interested in licensing? collaborating? covering? Please contact me with any questions about my music.
Here is a cover of my song Lonely from my dear friend BJ also known as Orkinpod.
a series of composer/musician workshops at SCI-Graterford in which Philly musicians and songwriters develop and celebrate the musical talent of incarcerated men via performance-based classes in composing, arranging, and musicianship.
Hear me talk about my music and my philosophy of song-writing and self then you might enjoy listening to this.
Accepting commissions. Visit Darb Garb to explore this ongoing art project, working with gender non-conforming people to design and create functional art objects and clothing design to affirms gender expansive bodes.
This is the first in a series of queer EROTIC films about pollination. You have been warned 😈
a puppet demonstration in solidarity with the custodial staff at Wesleyan university.
A collection of recent poems.
Read my work on the New Play Exchange or request a pdf
A play about the limits of commodification.
An adaptation of Xianzu Tang's 16th century opera.
A play about art, grief, and the ghosts trying to keep us honest.
Three braided stories curious about family planning in 1916.
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