Three Tall Women by Edward Albee featuring original music by Olive Klug

This production of Three Tall Women reimagined Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play through an intimate, immersive lens that emphasized personal reckoning, generational trauma, and the quiet resilience required to face one's life in full. The addition of original music by singer-songwriter Olive Klug offered a haunting, lyrical counterpoint to the script's stark emotional terrain, underscoring the characters' inner lives and creating an atmospheric bridge between memory and immediacy.

Thematically, the production explored courage as a quiet, often invisible force—a willful confrontation with aging, identity, regret, and mortality. Each of the three women—representing the same woman at different stages of her life—exemplified a different kind of bravery: the defiant outbursts of youth, the grounded survival of middle age, and the unflinching acceptance of death in old age.

The direction focused on deep character work and physical proximity, with actors often breaking traditional spatial boundaries to create a sense of shared embodiment and fractured time. The design, simple and clean, leaning into the etherial nature of memory and time. Casting prioritized emotional clarity and cross-generational mirroring, bringing a raw honesty to the relationships onstage. As producer, we oversaw all creative and logistical elements, ensuring cohesion between the play’s structural demands and the added layers of music and design.

In total, the production asked both artists and audiences to consider: What does it mean to live with courage when life does not offer redemption—but only the truth?