How did 3 Legged Dog come about?
Richard Foreman saw a script for a play I wrote called “House of Bugs: A Biological Tragedy” and offered to let me produce it at the Ontological Theater. We did a workshop in 1994 and a full production in 1996. The crew I used for my bread and butter design, directing and management practice were all artists. They became the cast, design team and crew for House of Bugs. They included people who would later found RadioHole and Collapsable Giraffe and a woman who would later become the head of video product development at Google. And 3-Legged Dog was born. Since then we have done 17 full productions and many many interactive media installations at La Mama, the Kitchen , PS122, The Signature and the Venice Biennale. In the meantime I invented a computer program that allowed us to run lighting, sound, video and automation from a single MacIntosh interface so we could do the complex overlapping cues that are the signature of my performance work. The company raised $7.8 million in venture fu
