Performance & Production
Credits
Thirty-plus years of directing, devising, writing, producing, and performing — on Austin stages, in New York, and in France.
Directing, Writing & Producing
Syntax Error: The Quickening of A.I.
Creator · multimedia exploration of artificial intelligence, created with the ensemble
Magical Fungi in Times Square by Chantal Bilodeau
Director
Excerpts from Sila and Mother by Chantal Bilodeau
Director
Co-director, writer, dancer, composer
Creator & facilitator · U.S. Fulbright Scholar project
P3M5: Plurality of Privacy in 5 Minute Plays
Producer & curator
Privacy Settings: A Promethean Tale
Director & writer · devised with the ensemble
Rouse the “Unruly Mob”: Three Nights of Reproductive Rights
Producer & director
8 Hours of OM
Director & writer
This Body of Words by Liz Belile
Director
Zero Libertad
Director
365 Plays/365 Days by Suzan-Lori Parks
Director
Ring, Rip, Rent by Martha Lynn Coon
Director
Untitled new play reading by Greg Romero
Director
Wake for the Dark Poet: The Antonin Artaud Project
Writer & director · B. Iden Payne Awards: Outstanding Production of a Drama, Outstanding Puppetry, Outstanding Transitions
Halfway to Custer by Martha Lynn Coon
Director
F**kjoy (Necrostix) by Chris Kelley
Director
The Bridge Burner by Aaron Brown
Director · world premiere
Director · B. Iden Payne Award, Outstanding Production of a Play for Youth
Assistant Directing
The Elements: Spirit
Assistant director
The Elements: Earth
Assistant director
Dark Goddess
Assistant director
Shopping and F**king by Mark Ravenhill
Assistant director
Acting & Performance
Performer & dancer
History of My Stiffness
Performer & dancer
Dionysus in ’69
Performer & dancer · Austin Critics’ Table Award, Production (Drama), 2010 · Bessie nomination, Outstanding Revived Work
Seven Jewish Children (staged reading)
Multiple roles
Multiple roles · Austin Critics’ Table “None of the Above” Award
Bell(e): The Museum of Suicide Machinery
Sylvia Plath
Blodeuwedd
Hekate
Uncaged: An Evening of Crazy Love and Theatre
Multiple roles
Edge of the Abyss
Multiple roles
Drums in the Night by Bertolt Brecht
Glubb
Merton of the Movies
Flips Montague
For the Love of Linko
Dr. Littlejoy
Fractured Greeks: Great Deeds, Human Follies
Kassandra, multiple roles · devised
Dirty Money
Christine
Innocence
Innocence
Triskelion (X&Y Trilogy)
Triskelion and Scorpia
Myth in the Flesh
Multiple roles
Ill Seen, Ill Said
Principal storyteller
The Black Blood (X&Y Trilogy)
Vortex
Kassandra
Young Kassandra, multiple roles
The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
Sabina
Performance Art
rites of being live performance art series
Founder & curator · monthly series for underground embodied art rituals
Bait & Hook
Co-creator & performer · Xeno Twin, with Chad Salvata
Feminists: Remounted
Creator, performer & video designer · solo performance with live video projection
Rouse the “Unruly Mob”
Performer
8 Hours of OM
Performer
Poetry of Yoga
Performer
Pater Language
Creator, performer & video designer · performance art with live video projection
Love Art Lab
Lab assistant
Labor Painting
Creator & performer · performance art
Confessions of a Toothless Goon
Creator, performer & video designer · M.A. thesis performance with live video projection
Dissection: A Work of Progress
Performance artist
Marathon
Performance artist
Gynomite: Breaking the Cherry
Writer & performer
No Shame Theatre
Performance artist
Swallow-Swim-Save
Performance artist
Video Art & Projection
All video and projection work created by Heather Barfield.
Feminists: Remounted
Video designer · original live projection for a solo performance
TouchDesigner Student Showcase
Video artist · original live projection built in TouchDesigner
Pater Language
Video designer · original live projection for a performance art piece
Water Breaking
Video artist · original video work
Confessions of a Toothless Goon
Video designer · original live projection
Film & Digital Media
The VORTEX Odyssey & The VORTEX Odyssey: Underworld
Director, writer, musician · original content with Key Hole (Heather Barfield, Kevin Welch, François Mineaux)
Privacy Settings: A Promethean Tale (streamed rebroadcast)
Conceiver & director
Todd Show LIVE!
Variety show segment · director, writer, musician
Les Petites Histoires
Director & editor
Theatre in Practice series
Interviewer & content creator
ACC International Fest
Interviewer
Faces of Austin
Director
Blank Canvas ATX
Host, executive producer, director
Music videos
Co-producer
In Six Seconds
Executive producer & co-director
Spirit at The VORTEX (archival recording)
Co-producer & co-director
Viper Vixens of 2012
Featured performer · stop-motion video with the Electronic Planet Ensemble
Student films
Director & crew
Music & Sound
Composer, sound design & live musician as Key Hole (Heather Barfield & Kevin Welch)
Composer & sound design
Founding member · synth & vocals
Honors
Honors Award
For “Substantial and Sustained Contributions to Austin’s Creative Community”
Bessie nomination, Outstanding Revived Work
Actor in Ensemble · Rude Mechanicals’ Dionysus in ’69
Austin Critics’ Table Award, Production (Drama)
Actor in Ensemble · Rude Mechanicals’ Dionysus in ’69; the ensemble was also nominated for Ensemble Performance
Austin Critics’ Table, “None of the Above” Award
Actor · Rubber Repertory’s The Casket of Passing Fancy
Writer & director · Wake for the Dark Poet (2004–05 season)
B. Iden Payne Award, Outstanding Production of a Play for Youth
Director · Machinal