ROUGH SLEEPER
Role: Director, Writer & Producer
Date: March 3 & 4, 2016
Location: Think Tank Gallery - Los Angeles, California
Client: Think Tank Gallery
Rough Sleeper was an immersive performance that unfolds as a mock psychological study of a man experiencing recurring dreams, exploring the line between subconscious torment and social reality. Set within multiple interconnected rooms, each space manifests fragments of the subject’s dream world through looping scenes filled with ritual, repetition, and disorientation. Audience members wandered freely, encountering moments of interrogation, surreal movement, and emotional unraveling, all anchored by a psychiatrist’s probing of the sleeper’s trauma. The piece juxtaposed the chaos of dream logic with the starkness of homelessness, examining identity, shame, and the cyclical nature of suffering. Though intentionally fragmented, Rough Sleeper invites viewers to question what is real, what is remembered, and what it means to find rest in a world that never stops asking who you are.
Sold out run and featured in the LA Times.