Selected credits:
How to Live in a House on Fire
A workshop production
Cleveland Public Theatre’s Test Flight, March 2024
Written by Kari Barclay
Directed by Kari Barclay
Featuring Angel Valenzuela, Nick Eaton, Keith Kornajcik, Robert Masseria, Assad Khaishgi, and Lil Craig of 2Reel
Alter
A world premiere
Cleveland Public Theatre/Teatro Público de Cleveland, March 2024
Written by Tania Benites
Directed by Kari Barclay
Featuring Andrea de la Fuente, Rajah Morales, Alisha Caraballo, Sylka Edmondson, Mónica Cerpa-Zuñiga, and Lionel Morales
Stonewallin’
A queer coming of age story in the American South
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, April 2023
Written by Kari Barclay
Directed by Kari Barclay
Featuring Brooke Lynlee, Rowan Kozinets, Olivia Bross, Tony Singfield, and Ana Morgan
Meat Suit
A reading of a new play
Dramatists Guild Foundation (New York, NY), August 2019
Written by Lillian Bernstein
Directed by Kari Barclay
Featuring Julix Chavez, Tabatha Gayle, Jeffrey Robb, Daniela Soto Brenner, and Jessie Tidball
Lack History
A stand-up comedy set about the history we lack and its propensity to be Black
Ars Nova, Off-Broadway, New York, NY, May 2022
Written by Sam Kebede
Directed by Kari Barclay
Featuring Sam Kebede
To learn more about this project, visit here.
Can I Hold You
A new play on attraction and asexuality
San Francisco Mime Troupe Studio, Stanford University, Feb. 2018, and Teddy’s (Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY), August 2018
Written by Kari Barclay
Directed by Kari Barclay and Jacob Sexton
Featuring Olivia Popp, Charlie O’Donohue, Gabriella Momah, and Jenny Hong
Full video here.
20 Minutes of Action
Stanford Artists of Color Respond to the Brock Turner Case
LitCrawl San Francisco and Stanford University (SF Bay Area, CA), March 2017
Directed by Kari Barclay
Produced by Thao Nguyen
Featuring Afroz Algiers, Luz Jiménez Ruvalcaba, Hope Yi, Abisola Kusimo, Mina Shah, Sage Isabella, Amber Walker, and Jenny Hong
The Me Too Monologues
Duke University (Durham, NC), Jan. 2015
Written by anonymous Duke students and workers
Performed at colleges and universities around the country and abroad, including Trinity College-Dublin, University of Alabama, Princeton, Marist College, and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Directed by Kari Barclay
The Bull City Dignity Project
A documentary theater project about gentrification, civil rights history, and LGBT+ activism in the changing city of Durham, NC
Hayti Heritage Center, The Pinhook, and Duke University (Durham, NC), August 2015
Written by Kari Barclay, Lara Haft, and the performers in collaboration with Durham residents
Directed by Kari Barclay
Produced by Kari Barclay and Lara Haft
Photography by Allie Mullin
Recipient of the Durham Grit Award. Hear us on NPR here!
Bully Boy
Common Ground Theater and Common Wealth Endeavors (Durham, NC), June 2014
Written by Sandi Toksvig
Directed by Kari Barclay
Featuring Gregor McElvogue and Justin Johnson
Perseus and the Rockstar
A play for young audiences
Traveling Players Ensemble (McLean, VA), August 2019
Written by Judith White
Directed by Kari Barclay
Cock
Manbites Dog Theater (Durham, NC), Oct. 2013
Written by Mike Bartlett
Directed by Jeff Storer
Assistant Directed by Kari Barclay
Featuring Phil Watson, Gregor McElvogue, Emma Miller, and John Honeycutt
Short Sell
The Secret Theater and Manhattan Repertory Theater (New York, NY), August 2018
A new play by Ben Hatt
Featuring George Hirsch and Tristan Sample
A Soiree for the Eighth of November
Adapted by Kari Barclay from Syrian playwright Sa’adallah Wannous’s 1968 play, A Soiree for the Fifth of June
Nitery Experimental Theater (Stanford, CA), May 2018
Directed by Kari Barclay
Scenic design by Starr Jiang
Featuring Danya El-Kurd, Iris Haik, Faris Barhoum, Max Drach, Emily Harris, and Laura Menendez
The Man Who
Brodie Theater (Durham, NC), February 2014
Written by Peter Brook
Based on the book by Oliver Sacks
Directed by Kari Barclay
Designed by Austin Powers
Featuring Samuel Kebede, Faye Goodwin, Nick Prey, and Cynthia Wang
Full video here.
Androcles and the Lion
Round House Theater (Bethesda, MD), April 2011
Written by Aurand Harris
Directed by Kari Barclay
Featuring Satya Vallis, Eleanor Robb, Hannah Felperin, Kenny Hahn, and Avery Mulligan