Timeline

1954-55 Stage lighting at Yale; edit and publish Voices (literary magazine)

1956 Direct A Sleep of Prisoners (Fry), The Hungerers (Saroyan)

1957 Move to New York

1958 Begin writing for The Village Voice

1959-68, 71-74 Theatre critic, The Village Voice

1962-65 Associate editor, The Village Voice

1962-68 Oversee Obie Awards

1963 First play: I Like It produced at Caffé Cino

1965 Direct Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (Stein), Icarus’s Mother (Shepard)

1965-66 Write Names and Events

1966 Write Near the End; The Next Thing produced at La Mama

1966-68 Manage Sundance, multi-arts festival in Pennsylvania

1967 Light A Funny Walk Home (Weiss); co-edit Eight Plays from Off-Off-Broadway (anthology, Bobbs-Merill); run lights for La Mama Troupe (London); direct Chas. Dickens’s Christmas Carol (Agenoux)

1968 Run Caffè Cino (January-March); direct Donovan’s Johnson (Agenoux), With Creatures Make My Way (Koutoukas), Vorspiel nach Marienstein (Dodd-Ondine-Smith), Dr. Kheal (Fornés); The Life of Juanita Castro (Tavel); move to San Francisco; Theatre Journal: Winter 1967 published (University of Missouri Press)

1969 Move back to New York; run lights for Earthlight; direct Hurricane of the Eye (Peluso); Theatre Trip published (Bobbs-Merrill); The Best of Off-Off-Broadway published (Dutton)

1970 Direct Captain Jack’s Revenge (Smith); run lights for Play-house of the Ridiculous rep (La Mama); write Soestio (published as Automatic Vaudeville, Fast Books, 2005)

1971 A Dog’s Love produced at La Mama; Captain Jack’s Revenge produced in London; direct Tony (Smith), Peas (Smith), Eat Cake (van Itallie), XXXXX (Hoffman), Country Music (Smith)

1972 Direct Bigfoot (Tavel); light King of the United States (van Itallie); More Plays from Off-Off-Broadway published (Bobbs-Merrill)

1973 Direct Tango Palace (Fornés), Double Solitaire (Smith)

1974 Direct Prussian Suite (Smith), A Wedding Party (Smith); move to Stonington

1974-77, 80-85 Working for David J. Way, Zuckermann Harpsichords

1975 Julian Bach Smith born February 10

1976 Direct Cowgirl Ecstasy (Smith); American Baby published (Fast Books)

1977 Move to Taos; Cowgirl Ecstasy produced in New York; Alfred St. John Smith born October 31

1978 Direct Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett), The Zoo Story (Albee), West Side Story (Laurents-Bernstein-Robbins); arts editor, Taos News; tech director, Taos Community Auditorium

1979 Light Fiddler on the Roof; direct Life Is Dream (Calderón-Smith)

1980 Move back to Stonington; A Wedding Party produced in New York

1981 Write Heavy Pockets

1983 Write Half Life

1984 Write Milarepa: 100,000 Songs (opera libretto)

1985 Direct A Shot in the Dark (Kurnitz), Curse of the Starving Class (Shepard); A Sojourn in Paris published (Fast Books)

1986 Light the Mystic Paper Beasts; write High Points of Youth; move back to New York

1986-89 NYC Mayor’s Office (Koch)

1988 Write Bum Rap (with Oren Jacoby)

1989 Light I and I (Lasker-Schüler)

1990 Light Living Theatre European tour

1991 Translate Agatha (Duras); light Rules of Civility (Washington-Reznikov), Ancient Boys (van Itallie), The Zero Method (Reznikov), Living Theatre European tour, Living Theatre benefit; MacDowell Colony: write Wild Dogs

1992-94 Move to Santa Barbara; arts editor, Santa Barbara Independent; found Santa Barbara Independent Theatre Awards (Indies)

1993 Direct Entertaining Vancouver (Smith); light Living Theatre New Mexico tour

1994 Direct Time Is a Round (Smith), Come In Here (Smith), Haunted Casa

1995-2000 Editor, Santa Barbara Magazine; Lobero Theatre Foundation board

1995 Present recital by Jerome Lowenthal; produce Choreosplash!

1996 The Dinner Show produced

1998 Produce Trouble (Smith); found Genesis West; write Original Body

1999 Produce Buried Child (Shepard)

2000 Fast Forward produced; direct Featuring Loretta (Walker); produce Featuring Loretta, Criminal Genius (Walker), Escape from Happiness (Walker), Dogs Bark All Night (Smith)

2001-03 Center Stage Theater board

2001 Direct The Danube (Fornés); produce The Danube, Mud (Fornés); Original Body revised as One Single Time

2002 Produce Turnip Family Secrets (Smith-Woodard); direct Krapp’s Last Tape (Beckett); light Kiss of the Spider Woman (Puig), Happiness (Walker); write Human Beans, write Sex/Life

2004 Move to Silverton, Oregon; translate Victor, or Children in Power (Vitrac); Brush Creek Players board; direct Beyond Therapy (Durang), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Abbreviated) (Shakespeare); write When I Was Gay (memoir)

2005 Silverton Poetry Association board; begin writing daily blog; direct The Flight of the Butter Boy (Jackson); light Blue Heart (Churchill)

2006 Produce and direct Trouble (Smith) in New York; light Far Away (Churchill) and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Albee); publish Automatic Vaudeville (Smith)

2007 Light The God of Hell (Shepard); write “I Deserve a Medal” (docu-biography of John P. Dodd); produce, direct, and design Bad Dog and Other Plays (Smith) in Santa Barbara

2008 Write First, the Shipwreck: a Cat’s Tale (fiction)