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Sometimes I make work on my own terms.
During my time in Philadelphia (2010-2018), I produced a lot of theatrical bombasts under the company name "The Greenfield Collective" with my artistic partner, Sara Outing. At Brown/Trinity Rep (2018-2022), I continued to produce a slew of self-generated works. I live in Brooklyn now, and I can't seem to stop putting strange pots on proverbial burners. Sometimes I'm a playwright, sometimes a lead artist, sometimes a deviser. I like it best when I'm both none and all of these things at once. Below are some original projects that are near and dear to me. Scripts and additional media available upon request. |
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Happy Birthday, Han
JACK Radical Acts Festival 2022, Brown Arts Initiative 2022, Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Acting Recital A 45 minute "cohesion ritual" for healing your inner child, and loving your present gay artist self. Created initially with direction and support from Rachel Christopher & Deb Salem Smith, and performed at JACK with direction by Will Steinberger. |
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clockwise from UL: G Momah, Aizhaneya Carter, Michael Hisamoto, Clew, Madeleine Barker, Andrew Watring
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DRAGON
NYTW Mondays @ 3 Reading Series 2022, Brown/Trinity Rep MFA playwright's incubator 2021 Marney is a teenage girl. Except, actually, she's a dragon. A play about what happens when we treat an identity like it's imaginary, and how this reverberates in the peculiar space we call "the theatre." Cast: 7 trans actors. NYTW reading: dir. Will Davis, featuring JoJo Brown, Hari Nef, Becca Blackwell, Aneesh Sheth, Sav Souza, Truth Bachman
B/T workshop: dir. Aileen McGroddy |
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The Millenarians
Brown/Trinity Creative Space Project, 2021 co-created with Jihan Haddad, Alfredo Antillon, & Carolin Uy Love will tear us apart. Again. An apocalypse collage. A high-brow low brow greek tragedy. A play about what happens when we touch. A smattering of guts. A very stupid music video. Adapted from Night, and Heaven on Earth, by Chuck Mee. |
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Tilda Swinton Adopt Me Please
co-written with Nicholas Scheppard and Maura Krause, The Greenfield Collective, 2017 / dir. Maura Krause "Both laugh-out-loud funny and intensely affecting...highly intelligent and profoundly touching." -DC Metro "There's a joyous air about actor and playwright Hannah Van Sciver’s company, the Greenfield Collective, even when their material probes dark themes...While the 70-minute show includes some laughs, its conclusion confirms Van Sciver and company’s serious ambitions." -Broad Street Review 
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Fifty Days at Iliam
The Greenfield Collective, 2015 / dir. William Steinberger, lead artist: Han Van Sciver "Affectionate, beautifully affecting...richly impressionistic, highly ensemble-driven... a forty-minute performance-poem woven from dance, movement, [and] a surprising amount of music....a deep, daring plunge... a rare confluence of unfiltered, beginners-mind, intuitive creation with mature, rigorous performance technique." - City Paper "Sensual, rhythmic, playful.." - Broad Street Review "Clever, inventive, insightful, and compelling - Phindie 
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Bicycle Face
The Greenfield Collective / Razor's Edge New Orleans / United Solo Off-Broadway @ Theatre Row, 2016 / Wilma Theatre @ Hothouse Crush, 2018 / Passage Theatre, 2019 / dir. David O'Connor "Van Sciver captures the contrasting speech patterns and attitudes of the women and their eras with humor and insight......equally smart, funny, and provocative." -Phindie 
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First Look Festival, Brown/Trinity Rep, 2019 / dir. Aileen Wen McGroddy A 10 minute spasm for 2 actors. "....I feel like...I'm in an abusive relationship with my cell phone?" -Audience Member, Brown/Trinity Rep |
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The Magnus Effect
The Greenfield Collective, 2016 / dir. David O'Connor / *Phindie Critics' Awards: Honorable Mention, Best New Play "...[a] smartly written, often funny, utterly genuine and charming world premiere play...tightly plotted with several thrilling twists and surprises, and a satisfyingly complex and brave ending that feels real." -Broad Street Review "...an exponentially superb show with a wonderfully constructed panoramic view into the turbulence of high anxiety...Each character is developed with depth...[an] action-packed 60 minute[s]. -DC Metro |
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Marbles
The Greenfield Collective, 2014 / dir. Will Steinberger "...the intimate half-hour production considers the big issues of time and cyberspace, and their impact on young lives and deteriorating social skills...the bittersweet story is at times funny and often distressing, with insightful glimpses into the psychological make-up of the characters." - Phindie |
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