Live Performances

A collection of essays and plays

 
 

"A Lock of Keats' Hair"

“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)

“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)

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