Role: Media Director
Vocalists and instrumentalists from Kaufman Music School’s Special Music School High School give an exclusive work-in-progress performance of Centuries in the Hours: From Home, an opera by composer and 2020-21 KMC Artist-in-Residence Lisa Bielawa. Based on women’s diaries spanning three centuries, discovered during Bielawa’s extensive research as a William Randolph Hearst Visiting Artist Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society in 2018, Bielawa and librettist Claire Solomon adapted to the global pandemic, using the isolation women have historically faced as a formal constraint.
This innovative film by acclaimed media artist Jess Medenbach features the student cast filmed at the historic Morris-Jumel Mansion and in Merkin Hall. The stories of the women represented include an isolated teen genius (1901), a missionary (1823), a college student (1860), a Revolutionary War evacuee (1778), a Colorado housekeeper (1890s), a Philadelphia abolitionist (1860s), and a depressed Southern woman (1861). We will also hear from the ghost of Eliza Jumel, former owner of the Morris-Jumel Mansion, played by renowned professional mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin.
Role: Projections Designer
/wē/
World Premiere: April 25-28, 2019
The Theater at the 14th Street Y
Co-presented by The Theater at the 14th Street Y, MICHIYAYA Dance presented /wē/—a collective study on gender identity through a femme-identifying lens that rids the binary, embraces the inner self and builds without walls. States of transcendence, embodiment, neutrality and autonomy were explored as MICHIYAYA Dance interweaved thoughts, memories, and dreams.
Artistic Direction: Anya Clarke and Mitsuko Verdery
Choreography: Anya Clarke
Visual and Contextual Design: Mitsuko Verdery
Dance Artists: Belinda Adam, Breeanah Breeden, Stephanie Carlos, Núria Martin Fandos, Hannah Seiden, Alexandra Wood, Alex Bittner
Live Sound: slowdanger
Lighting Design: Alejandro Fajardo
Projection Design: Jess Medenbach with Media Associate, Char Stiles
/wē/ was made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and administered by LMCC.
The development for /wē/ was supported by the PearlDiving Movement Residency at PearlArts Studios, and Gibney’s POP: Performance Opportunity Project.
Role: Projections Designer
The Flea Theater, NYC, 2019.
Written by Kristiana Rae Colón
Directed by Sherri Eden Barber
Costumes by Christelle Mantou
Scenic Design by Kate Noll
Lighting Design by Paige Seber
Sound Design by Megan Culley
Projection Design by Jess Medenbach
Assistant Director : Rachel Karp
SM : Hayley Gordon
Violence/Intimacy Choreo by Rocio Mendez
and starring
Dolores Avery, Caturah Brown, Raiane Cantisano, Clea DeCrane, Ure Egbuho, Erin Noll, Pearl Shin, Renee Harrison, and Arielle Gonzalez @ The Flea Theater
Role: Projections Designer
Design implemented VHS shot footage and animation to create a staged digital space utilizing 3 projection spaces and 4 analog televisions.
CMU School of Drama, November 2016
Featuring Carson McCalley and Sarah Pidgeon
Scenic Design: Emily Bordelon
Media Design: Jessica Medenbach
Lighting Design: K. Jenna Ferree
Sound Design: Hong Ji
Costume Design: Yixuan Duan
Dramaturgy: Stephanie Kane
Role: Projections Designer
Music: Soosan Lolavar
Words: Daniel Hirsch
Director: Stephen M.Eckert
Conductor: Daniel Nesta Curtis
Costume Design: Nina Bova
Scenic Design: Caitlin Ayer
Media Design: Jessica Medenbach
Producer: Kevin O’Hora
Performed by:
Patrick Dailey, Shannyn Rinker, Robert Raso
Role: Projections Designer
Carnegie Mellon University, Chosky Theater
Directed by Jed Allen Harris
Media Design by Jessica Medenbach
Set Design by Henry Blazer
Sound Design by Paula Halpern
Lighting Design by Alex Fasciolo
Role: Projections Designer
Produced for NYMF at the Acorn Theater, New York, NY, July 2018.
Carly Brooke Feinman (Book, Music, Lyrics)
Cassie Willson (Book, Music, Lyrics)
Tyler Thomas (Director)
Machel Ross (Costume Designer)
Adam Honore (Lighting Designer)
Darren Joel Diggle (Scenic Designer)
Role: Projections Designer
Nine at Molloy College, 2018.
Directed by Joe Barros
Associate Director/Choreographer: Luis Villabon
Lighting: Aaron Bowersox
Set: David L. Arsenault
Projections: Jess Medenbach
Costumes: Siena Zoë Allen
Sound: Ellen Fitton/Dan Gerhard
PSM: Zach Jenkins
Assistant Director: Karen Braun
Role: Projections Designer
Created in collaboration with Jakob Marsico & Corningworks. New Hazlett Theater, Pittsburgh, PA.
Role: Projections Designer
New Works Operas, Pittsburgh Opera House, 2017.
My Opera Nemesis
Composer: Evan Neely
Librettist: Mora Harris
Cast: Lindsey Chinn, Sarah Nadler, William Ottow, Michael Protacio
The Women on the Wall
Composer: Jordan Speranzo
Librettist: Jess Honovich
Cast: Emily Hopkins, Virginia Sheffield
ID, please
Composer: Soosan Lolavar
Librettist: Daniel Hirsch
Cast: Guillaume Poudrier, Robert Raso, Shannyn Rinker
Role: Assistant Video and Projection Design
The Flea Theater, NYC, 2018.
Written and directed by Todd Solondz
Scenic and Properties Design: Julia Noulin-Merat
Lighting Design: Becky Heisler McCarthy
Costume Design: Andrea Lauer
Sound Design: Fabian Obispo
Video and Projection Design: Adam J. Thompson
Video and Projection Team //
Video and Projection Design: Adam J. Thompson
Assistant Video and Projection Design: Jess Medenbach
Photos: Joan Marcus
Role : Video and Production Design Associate
PORGY AND BESS @ Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander, Conducted by Sebrina Alfonso, Scenic + Projection Design by Paul Tate DePoo III, Lighting + Sound + Production Management by Matt Berman, Video Programming and Equipment provided by LMG.
Assistant Media Designer/Camera Operator
Carnegie Mellon University
Chosky Theater, November-December 2015
Associate Producer to Media Designer, Tal Yarden. Madrid. 2014.
Content Assistant for "Exterminating Angel". Salzburg, Austria. July, 2016.
Associate Producer to Media Designer, Tal Yarden, 2014.
Role : Projections and Sound Designer
Mythic Happening
Immersive Theater Performance created for the Playground Theater Festival at CMU in fall of 2015.
Multimedia performance which took place over the course of three nights.
Media and Sound Design by Jessica Medenbach and Michael James
Streams
Multimedia theater performance in which two character sit opposite one another on a stalled train.
Their thoughts are mediated through filmic memory and the contents of their phones
Conceived by Jessica Medenbach and Daniel Hirsch
Written by Daniel Hirsch
Media Design by Jessica Medenbach
Role : Associate Designer to Media Designer Kevan Loney, Boston, 2016.
Role: Assistant Media/Projections Designer
Directed by: Alan Souza
Media Design by Kevan Loney
Assistant Media Designer: Jessica Medenbach
Choreographed by: Grady M. Bowman
Music by: ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Lyrics by: TIM RICE
