DIRECTING/WRITING: 

"How Did They Die?”:  (2001) Written by the Ethiopian teen members of the Awassa AIDS

Education Circus, performed in markets, schools and refugee camps.

"Saturday Night Forever" (1996): Directed by Schein, written from improvisations by Senior

Theatre Company, Free Street Toos, toured in Midwest, 96-97.

"Club Date" (1992): Directed and produced by Schein at Spices Jazz Bar. Toured in Midwest.

Written with Doug Lofstrom & the Club Date Band: an improvisation on the history of Chicago jazz

with veteran jazz musicians of Chicago's South Side,

"Die Ruckehr der Judin" (The Return of the Jewish Woman (1990): Directed by Schein at

Theater Initiatif, Münster, Germany, revived for German tour, '91, '92. Written from improvisations

with 3 German actors.

"Whoopi Goldberg on Broadway" (1984): Schein was the original outside eye & contributing

writer for Goldberg's first solo , "The Spook Show", adapted for Broadway by Mike Nichols.

MUSICALS:

"Reverence for the Dead" (1986): Schein wrote, produced, directed & composed

(with J. Raoul Brody) this musical about the return of Lee Harvey Oswald. Performed at the

Hawkeye Studio, Berkeley, Feb-April 1987.

"TOKENS: A Play on the Plague" (1985): Schein wrote, produced and composed (with Candace

Natvig) this poly-choral dance piece for sixty performers, presented at Theater Artaud, SF.

Winner of Bay Area Critics and four Hollywood Dramalogue Awards.

 SOLO WORK:

"Out Comes Butch" (2010, 1981): Written in 1981, & performed by Schein for 25 years in North

America & Europe. Produced by the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis in 92. Revived in 2008 at

Voodoo Lounge, New Orleans, Box Theater, Santa Fe and Studio Theatre, Jamestown, NY.

"Queen City Songs" (2009): A song series about growing up in Vermont in the 50's and 60's. 

Performed with Aurora Schein at the Hardwick (VT) TownHouse in summer, 2009.

"MYethiOPIA" (2007): Written and performed by Schein in 2007-8 in San Francisco, LA and VT.

"My Murder & Other Local News" (1998):  A solo performance written and performed by Schein.

Produced by Links Hall in Chicago in March of 1998 and at the Rhinoceros Theater Festival in

September of 1998, and performed in various venues in the US and Europe. 

"Pagans & Stones" (1990): Two one acts on contemporary Jewish-American themes, written &

directed by Schein, presented at the Home for Contemporary Theater & Art, NYC.

"Border-X-Frontera" (1987): A radio play written & recorded with Mexican performance artist

Guillermo Gomez-Pena for the American Public Radio Network and broadcast nationally on NPR.

SOUND POETRY:

Black Panty Suite: (2000) performed at Links Hall and at the Rhino Festival in Chicago.

Infarcation: (2002) performed at Curious Theater as part of the Rhinocerous Theater

Festival in Chicago and in Vermont as part of a 2008 tour.

PUBLICATIONS:

Out Comes Butch: (1985) West Coast Plays 17/18

Incident in Awassa: American Theater Magazine, June (2002), American Theater Reader (2009).

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