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Iota: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides & Sappho fragments

Art Research focusing on visual, physical, and musical site specific theatre / site specific dance (or more accurately termed site responsive theatre) of the remaining fragments from the lost plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides.

Live Art scored in collaboration with artists from all mediums including sculptors, composers, designers, & performers

Site Responsive Theatre

Sophocles, Laocoon, Babatunji Johnson, Berkeley Art Museum, BAMPFA, site specific theatre, Art Research, site response theater, photography, documentation, site specific dance

Sophocles Laocoön at BAMPFA

On the evening of March 9th, 2020 we performed a site specific production of a fragment from the lost tragedy Laocoön by Sophocles at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.


Euripides, Santa Cruz, IOTA, site responsive art

Enclose the Divine

On August 23rd, 2020, I incorporated a text fragment from one of Euripides’ lost tragedies to an image of an abandoned dollhouse discovered on a sidewalk.  Informally, the piece is called Enclose the Divine.


Sophocles, In Time of Need, Watsonville

In Time of Need

At 6:50AM on July 3rd, 2020 I incorporated a text fragment from one of Sophocles’ lost tragedies with a site responsive approach to an abandoned house outside Watsonville. Informally, the piece is called In Time of Need.


Euripides, Public Art, Tragedy, art research santa cruz, site responsive theatre

The Man Who Knows (Euripides #115)

At 5:40AM on March 23rd, 2020 I incorporated a text fragment from one of Euripides’ lost tragedies with a site responsive approach to Environmental Art and Public Art (The statue: To Honor Surfing Statue) on Santa Cruz’s Westside.  Informally, the piece is called The Man Who Knows.


Aeschylus, Danaids, Tragedy, Water Temple

Aeschylus Danaids at The Pulgas Water Temple

At 4:45pm on November 19th, 2018 we performed a site specific theatre piece of the two remaining fragments of Aeschylus Danaids at the Pulgas Water Temple in San Mateo county.


site specific, theatre, theater, bay area, performance art, live art, documentation, photography, Aeschylus, Mysians, Stanford, literature, art, faith, adventure

Aeschylus, Mysians


Euripides fragment, East Palo Alto theater, san francisco theatre, site specific theatre, site specific theater san francisco, Euripides poem, Stanford Theater and Performance Studies, theater bay area, Superfund Art

Path of Steady Success (Euripides #259) East Palo Alto

At noon. on May 9th, 2018 we performed a site specific theatre piece of an unattributed fragment from one of the lost tragedies of Euripides at a superfund site along the East Palo Alto shoreline.  Informally, the piece is called Path of Steady Success.


Sophocles, Nausicaa, Sophocles fragments, site specific theatre, site responise theatre, theatre photography, san francisco theater, environmental theater, Art Research, Stanford TAPS, Stanford Theater and Performance Studies, Pillar Point, live art, theater bay area, Stanford Alumni, San Francisco dance, dance photography, judy syrkin-nikolau

Sophocles Nausicaä at Pillar Point

At 1:08 p.m. on July 10th, 2016 we performed a site responsive theater piece of the only two fragments that remain from the lost Sophocles tragedy Nausicaä at Pillar Point (Mavericks).


site specific theatre, site responsive theatre, environmental theatre, san francisco theatre, theatre photography, theatre documentation, theater bay area, site integrated theatre, Wave Organ San Francisco

Savage Blasts (Sophocles #116) at The Wave Organ

We performed a site responsive theatre piece using a fragment of text from a lost Sophocles tragedy at the Wave Organ in San Francisco.    Informally, the piece is called Savage Blasts.



Muriel Maffre, Ryan Tacata, The Iota, Euripides fragments, Marin Headlands Arts, National Parks art, site specific theatre, site specific dance, theatre photography, san francisco theater, san francisco performance art, theater photography, theatre documentation, theater bay area, environmental art, san francisco dance, san francisco ballet, live art, public art, Jamie Lyons

Love is The Fullest Education (Euripides #91) on Slacker Hill

At 6:57 a.m. on April 7th, 2016 Muriel MaffreRyan Tacata and myself performed a site specific theater piece with fragments of one of the lost tragedies by Euripides on top of  Slacker Hill in the Marin Headlands.  Informally, we called the work Love is The Fullest Education and the fragment relates the myth of Zeus’ seduction of Io in the form of a cloud.



Live Art, san gregorio, bay area, san francisco, performance, documentation, sophocles, fragment, fish, dead

Speechless Fish (Sophocles #110) at San Gregorio

At 3:57 p.m. on December 23rd, 2015 I performed a site specific art installation of an unattributed fragment of one of the lost  tragedies by Sophocles in San Gregorio.  The piece was created with eight dead fish heads speared on eight fence posts.  Informally, the piece is called Speechless Fish.


environmental theatre, avant garde, experimental, artist weather, performance art, san francisco, bathtub, Rebecca Ormiston, clouds, bubbles, bubble bath, bathroom, clouds, meteorology

Cloud Talk (Sophocles #137)

On October 9th, 2015 Rebecca Ormiston, Ryan Tacata and myself created an experimental piece for Artist Weather TV that incorporated a text fragment from one of Sophocles’ lost tragedies: Sophocles Fragment #137. Informally, the piece is called Cloud Talk.


Aeschylus, Argo, aquatic park, Live Art, theater, performance, san francisco, maritime

Aeschylus’ The Argo aboard schooner CA Thayer 

At 2:45 p.m. on October 3rd, 2015 I performed a site specific theater piece of the only remaining fragment from AeschylusThe Argo in the hold of the schooner C.A. Thayer at San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park.


site specific theatre, site responsive theatre, san francisco theater, Euripides fragments, directing Euripides, San Francisco director, San Francisco dance, theatre documentation, theatre photograph, Aquatic Park, Val Sinckler

No Man’s Friend (Euripides #266)

At 5:55 a.m. on July 1st, 2015 we performed a site responsive theatre production of an unattributed fragment of one of the lost tragedies by Euripides’ at Aquatic Park in San Francisco.  Informally, the piece is called No Man’s Friend.


Live Art, San Francisco Theater, Theater Bay Area

Aeschylus’ Glaucus of Potniae at Golden Gate Fields

At 1:15 p.m. on June 6th, 2015 we performed a site specific theater piece with the fragments that remain from the lost Aeschylus tragedy at the Golden Gates Fields horse racing track.



site specific theatre, site responsive theatre, emeryville mudflats, san francisco theater, sophocles, directing sophocles, theatre documentation, San Francisco director, jamie lyons, theatre photography, emeryville mudflats sculpture

Sophocles’ Sinon at Emeryville Mudflat

At 8:01 p.m. on May 4th, 2015 we performed a site responsive theatre event of Sophocles’ Sinon (using the textual fragments that have survived) in the Emeryville Mudflats: adjacent to the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge.


Aeschylus Daughters of The Sun

Aeschylus’ Daughters of The Sun, Año Nuevo State Park

At 6:25 a.m. on April 24th, 2015 I performed a site specific production of Aeschylus’ Daughters of The Sun in the waves off Año Nuevo State Park


Theatre (Directing Portfolio)

‘During the war, when I had a great deal of time to think, and no friends to amuse me, I conceived of a new kind of drama. One in which the conventional separation between actors and audience abolished. In which the conventional scenic geography, the notions of the proscenium, stage, auditorium, were completely discarded. In which continuity of performance, either in time or place, was ignored. And in which the action, the narrative was fluid, with only a point of departure and a fixed point of conclusion. Between those points the participants invent their own drama.’ His mesmeric eyes pinned mine. ‘You will find that Artaud and Pirandello and Brecht were all thinking, in their different ways, along similar lines. But they had neither the money nor the will —and doubtless, not the time — to think as far as I did. The element they could not bring themselves to discard was the audience.’
John Fowles, The Magus, 1966

Site Specific Theatre

Sophocles, Sophocles Oedipus, Anthony Burgess, art research, site specific theatre, site responsive theatre, san francisco theater, performance, live art, theatre photography. theatre documentation, Jamie Lyons, Nathanial Justiniano, Fort Mason, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park, San Francisco International Art Festival, Museum of Performance and Design

Sophocles’ Oedipus at Fort Mason Chapel (MP+D)


Jean Genet The Balcony, Le Balcon, San Francisco Old Mint, Collected Works, Jamie Lyons director, site specific theatre, San Francisco theater, theater bay area, theatre photography, theatre documentation

Jean Genet’s the Balcony at The Old Mint



We Players, Ava Roy, Jamie Lyons, John Hadden, Lauren Dietrich Chavez, William Shakespeare King Lear, King Fool, William Shakespeare, site integrated theatre, Marin Headlands Art, Battery Wallace,

We Players’ King Fool


Stanford Theater and Performance Studies

Jamie Lyons, director, directing, theatre, theater, ava roy, performance studies, drama, stage, acting, actor, san francisco

Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade


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Sam Shepard’s True West



Revenger’s Tragedy, Cyril Tourner, Thomas Middleton, Jacobean, directing, director, Stanford, Old Union, theater, performance studies, theatre, jamie lyons, site specific, performance, live art

The Revenger’s Tragedy


Harold Pinter, Mountain Language, Ava Roy, Anne Gregory, site specific, theater, theatre, performance studies, stanford, documentation, photography, jamie lyons, director, directing

Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language


Blue Room

David Hare’s The Blue Room

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