8 Pills and Counting

Sound designed a senior capstone’s digital reimagining, written and directed by Gabe Brosius and performed for the Minnesota Virtual Fringe Festival. The show explores how three queer men diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizotypal disorder manage their diagnoses through romantic endeavors.

It was performed as a part of the virtual festival on August 6th, 2020. A video recording is embedded below.

The design was done in Ableton Live 10. Music used in the show was composed by SOVIET.JESUS.CHOIR, DJ Dolph, Sunday Saari, and Matthew Zwiebel.

This play is based on interviews I conducted with queer men I met over Grindr who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia or schizotypal disorder. These men a...