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You on the Moors Now
by Jaclyn Backhaus
directed by Jasmine Roth
Four literary heroines of the nineteenth century set conventionalism ablaze when they turn down marriage proposals from their equally famous gentlemen callers. What results is a confluence of love, anger, grief, and bloodshed, as the ensemble struggles to reconcile romantic ideologies of the past with their modern ideas of courtship. Everything you’ve learned about love from the pages of Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Little Women is turned upside down in this grand theatrical battle royale.
Union College
Schenectady, NY
May 29th- June 2nd
in development
Caesar & the Cult Girls
by Jasmine Roth
with text from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Five girls being raised in an extremist religious cult start reading Shakespeare's Julius Caesar just for fun. But when the play starts to mirror their own lives, they grapple with power, leadership and whether or not they'd kill Caesar.
This play is looking for a home for development
PAINTING LESSONS: A FANTASIA WITH MY DYING FATHER
by Jasmine Roth
J struggles to accept her father’s death when so much of their relationship feels unresolved. The journey of grief leads her to a metaphysical cactus garden, where she encounters her father and can finally ask him to teach her to paint, but will what she discovers in the garden help her to let go?
Commissioned by the New Hazlett Theatre
Carnegie Mellon University’s GSA/Provost GuSH Grant funding
was used to support this project
Developed in part at the Sable Project in Stockbridge, Vermont
current collaborations
Tanya's Lit Clit
Conceived by Emma Goldman-Sherman and Tatiana Baccari
Written by Emma Goldman-Sherman
Directed by Tatiana Baccari
Co-choreographed by Jasmine Roth and Tatiana Baccari
TANYA'S LIT CLIT (TLC) is a modern-mythic play about Tanya, a White ballerina with a burning in her clitoris (a word she can barely utter!), and Dr. Violet, a Black urogynecologist with her own autoimmune diseases. In an epic journey led by a chorus of womxn+, Dr. Violet and Tanya embark on a wild investigation of the female body and the herstory of its treatment.
Tanya’s LIT CLIT is a new play currently in development commissioned by Experimental Bitch Presents and was part of the NY Theatre Barn Choreography Lab in March of 2023
WICKED BITTER BEAST(s)
by Kira Rockwell
Directed Jasmine Roth
Estranged from her pastoral family, Zoey is a prodigal daughter on the run from her Evangelical past and the Hellmouth she must fight her way through. An unruly parable that reverberates through time, space, and realms, beckoning you to face the wicked bitter beast(s) in your own life, especially the one looking back in the mirror.
Wicked Bitter Beast(s) was workshopped at Carnegie Mellon University in August 2023
produced and Directed by Jasmine Roth
Wicked Bitter Beast(s) is looking for more workshop and development opportunities