CLOUDMELT: A RADIO PLAY

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Photo by Aron Visuals on Unsplash.
Radio Play in 2 Episodes. 4W.

When Agnes starts to forget herself, she returns to her honeymoon spot for one last breath before finding her husband in the life after this one. But then the storm and the cold and in comes this teenage stranger to interrupt her plans…a girl who feels strangely familiar. This story about last goodbyes asks how love and other supernatural cloudbursts can connect us across difference, across cosmos, across lifetimes and forgetting.

Broadcasted live through Radio Boise, 2019.

THE TOXIC EDGE
AND THE PRECIPICE OF MEMORY

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Islais Creek, Photo by Shannon O'Neill-Creighton, 2015.
Site Specific Experimental Assemblage. 2W, 1M.
10 Minutes.
Audio/Photo/Video/Text Mashup
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Jessie Rose is determined to get to the last drop of clean water on earth here at Islais Creek, with Savannah's help. She knows it will bring back her memory. Harry is determined to keep them here. But Savannah won't let her sister go.

Mixed-Media Performance:

California Institute of Integral Studies
Islais Creek
2015, San Francisco, CA

Written by Heidi Kraay, based on the play
Directed and Edited by Jessica Habie
Photos by Shannon O'Neill-Creighton
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Jessica Habie as Jessie Rose
Christina Bradford as Savannah
Elliot Weiss as Harry

THE HUNGRY ONES: SCREENPLAY

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The landscape where this story is set. Photo 1980s.
Feature Length Psychological Horror

The Hungry Ones contains three shorts, one house, and three different decades. Based on the terror puppet play triptych, each short features a different girl at a different age, all set against a hidden force in a gorgeous landscape and linked by this house of secrets.

These blips of psychological horror are set in upstate New York, each on a different level of this three-story farmhouse—a house that demands sacrifice, possession and entrapment. These girls have to grow up fast.

 DROWN TO RESURFACE:
CHAPBOOK ALBUM

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Photo by Shannon O'Neill-Creighton, 2015.
Text/Music Mashup.

Water poems recorded with instrumentals by Thomas Paul, recorded by Cory Strop, cover art by Shannon O'Neill-Creighton.

WAYS NOT TO DROWN: AUDIO

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Photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash.
Short ​Drama. 2 Any Gender.

At the end of the world as we know it, Kern and Fan watch a flood eat the world around them, about to take them with it. They find a chance to survive, but it involves permanent change, and may separate these two love birds forever.

Recorded by The American Playbook, 2019.

POOR MONSTER​

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Jaime Nebeker as the Monster, Photo by Chaz Gentry, 2015.
Short Adventure Mashup. 2W.

A woman hunts a creature to protect the world from what damaged her, only to find in revelation that she is the monster. Based on Kraay's poem by the same title and inspired in part by Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, this film functions as a music video, which works as an expressive display of the more poem's story.

Text and Story by Heidi Kraay
Directed by Kyle Daniel Barrow
Filmed by Chaz Gentry

Sarah Gardner as The Hunter
Katie Ponozzo and Jaime Nebeker as The Monster
​Narrated by Heidi Kraay

HOARSE: SCREENPLAY

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Staged reading of the play on which the screenplay is based, Photo Chaz Gentry, 2015.
Dramatic Comedy. 1W, 1M.

Oh Janet. Her mom's losing it, she can't afford rent, her neighbors are loud and her son won't hear about it. When she loses her voice, it puts her over the edge--but what will listening teach her?

Based on the play.

Co-Written Film Projects

FAMILY OUTAGE

FALL WINTER FALL
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Film/photo by Andy Lawless, 2016.
Short Apocalyptic Comedy
​10 minutes. 1M, 3W.
Co-written for i-48 2016
Story Teller Content

A family finds their own individual path to happiness during their last moments on earth.
Physical Art Video
Under 5 minutes. 2M, 2W.
By Tracy Sunderland and Migration Theory
For Frantic Assembly's Chair Duet Challenge

Spiraling through Boise's last two seasons in layered moments with a bench and a car story.