Live Performances

A collection of essays and plays

 
 

“My Friend Lodovico”

Souvenirs of the Emperor (a visit to Hadrian’s villa reminds me of home)

From the Passenger Side (life with—and without—a collector)

Scale and Effect (why I had come to love a friend)

Prior to Landing (hearing the voices of my grandparents in Italy)

A Thirst (an act of kindness)

Taking a New Direction (meeting a famous New Yorker)

The Middle Distance (a one-act drama at Manhattan Repertory Theatre)

“On and Off the Runway”

David Masello reads "The Memorial"

Pass-Through (what I see through the opening in my apartment)

Where I’d Left Off (I was 17 and my father needed work)

Dual Portrait (a painted portrait and a portrait of someone I’d once been with)

A Symptom of the Past (an old “girlfriend” from college visits me)

Shadow Run (a visit to my father in Florida)

Time to Go Home (when I used to go to gay bars and why I no longer go)

What the Sun Reveals (a one-act drama, performed by the AND Theatre Company, February 2019)

Hold On (still shots from my solo/monologue performance at AND Theatre Company, November 2018)

FJORDS, a short one-act play by David Masello about two men who meet during the pandemic