Rooted in sculpture and percussion and developed through the sensibility of the actor, Live Sound Action is a multi-disciplinary form for composition, choreography, sound design, and the writing of original performance. Included below are some collaborations with directors, devised performance pieces, fully casted pre-existing plays, and one person shows. Please see Elephants and Gold as my own fully integrated ensemble manifestation of some aspects of Live Sound Action.
Eliza Ladd Biography – Live Sound Action Statement
see Live Sound Action – Cosmological Composition: training, process, and curriculum
Big Exit
Duet Collaboration with Sara Zimmerman
The Kitchen, Governors’s Island, Chocolate Factory, Dixon Place, Earlham College
2012 see photo gallery
Bucket and Stick
Created and Directed by Eliza Ladd in collaboration with Margot Bassett, Vincent DeGeorge, debra Disbrow, and Damaris Webb
2011 NYC
see video
Casa Cushman
Written and Directed by Leigh Fondakowski
This play is currently in development (reading at New York Theater Workshop, residency at Orchard Project among other places)
This Thing of Darkness
Directed by Randolph Curtis Rand
Naropa University, Colorado, 2007
cast: Barbara Dilley, Hadley Mays, Colleen Mylott, and Eliza Ladd
The Accidental Activist
Written by Kathryn Blume, www.kathrynblume.com
Connelly Theater in NYC, Aurora Thtr, Berkeley,CA, Vermont Stage,VT, New England Tour , 2003-5
cast: Kathryn Blume and Eliza Ladd
In The Accidental Activist Kathryn Blume tells the story of her experience as co-founder of the Lysistrata Project – worldwide readings of the ancient Greek anti-war comedy Lysistrata on March 3, 2003 to protest the U.S.’s impending war on Iraq.
Captains and Courage (world premiere)
Written by Israel Horovitz, Directed by Michael Cecchi
T. Schreiber Studio, NYC
Large ensemble cast accompanied by Eliza Ladd as singer and Live Sound Action collaborator.
My Throwing Arm, Written by Annie Lanzillotto
cast: Annie Lanzillotto and Eliza Ladd, Under One Roof, NYC
Bury The Dead
Directed by Randall Stuart, Great Hall at Cooper Union, NYC, 2005
The Lysistrata Project, pre show music
Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC, 2003