Gloaming Project
creating in light & shadow
Stories in the Shadows
In development (workshop/residency) — an inquiry into shadow, narrative, and embodied storymaking.
Gloaming Project & Hidden Room Theatre
July–August 2026
Stories in the Shadows is a collaborative residency and community workshop project exploring hidden voices, storytelling, and embodied performance through shared process and exchange. Developed through rehearsal, experimentation, and public-facing engagement, the project brings together artists and local participants to investigate how stories are shaped, obscured, and revealed through movement, sound, image, and presence.
The residency will culminate in open works-in-progress performances in Roxbury, NY, offering audiences a window into the creative process.
New works in development:
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Bluebeard (Gloaming Project)
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Theater of Magic (Hidden Room Theatre)
The Ballad Tree
An performance work available for touring
Inspired by Appalachian ballads—old English, Scottish, and Irish folk songs carried to early North America—The Ballad Tree brings live music, song, dance, and puppetry into dialogue with the oral tradition of storytelling.
Focusing on the tragically romantic tradition of “murder ballads,” the work weaves together well-known and lesser-known songs alongside original, ballad-inspired music and movement. Akin to fairy tales, these stories speak to difficult emotional terrain; despite their dark themes, they evoke a sense of stillness, beauty, and awe through their trance-like, emotional states.
The Ballad Tree has been developed through performances and residencies supported by Dixon Place (NYC Performance Residency, 2014), the Delaware County Community Arts Grant (2024), and a 2025 winter run at The Open Eye Theater in Margaretville, NY. The work continues to evolve, with future performances and touring opportunities currently being explored.
“As long as people love a story and their senses respond to sound and movement, the ballad tree, rooted in the past, living today, will send forth its branches into tomorrow.”
— Evelyn Wells
