Creative Projects

Co-Director (2018-Present)

Idyll Shift is an ongoing creative project of myself and movement director Marissa Aucoin. This dance theater company takes classic works and combines it with contemporary dance to create new, theatrical experiences with a feminist lens. 

Unseen Voices

(2023)

Voiced selections from the interviews used to create "Truely Heard," which explores the realities and reasons why survivors of sexual assault may not report their abuse. 

Artistic Council Member 

(2020-2021)

As part of ReThink Theatrical's initiative to be more equitable to their community, they created a self-governing council who helps create their theatrical season and help with creating an environment supportive of diversity, accessibility, and equity. 

Reoccurring Guest 

(2020-2021)

As part of the Taste of Dragons podcast, the Taste of Dragons Network on Twitch features daily (except Tuesdays) content. Genevieve has been featured multiple times, primarily on Fridays with Metal Year Solid  with occasional appearances on   Wednesdays with Friendzone  and special holiday episodes. 

Producer and Co-Host  

(2020-2021)

Genevieve and Katie are two curious kittens who dive down a weekly rabbit hole to learn more about the little things that make up the universe. This podcast is created in part to give listeners a break from stress and to feel like they're just chilling with their friends over a cup of diner coffee. 

Featured Voice Actor 

(August 2020)

A webseries created by Rebecca Wahls and Rebecca Ballinger about two astronauts who get trapped in space. I feature in "Cookie" (Season 2; Episode 3). 

Composer 

(2020) 

Composed "Ruth's Song" for this otherworldly play by Luis Roberto Herrera. The play was featured as the first live play reading of the True Mirage Theater of 2020. 

Award Recipient 

(2020)

Proposed project through collaboration with Idyll Shift to adapt Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Hollow and The Three Hills.  The project has been put on hiatus due to ongoing social distancing measures. 

Full Title: Four Lovers: A Modern (Dance) Retelling of 'Midsummer Night's Dream'

Tisch Staff Grant Recipient (2020)

NJ Dance Grant (2021)

Through Idyll Shift, this adaptation carved out the stories of the four lovers from Midsummer Night's Dream    to be expanded into a piece about love, loss, and magic. This grant served to provide funding for a workshop reading of the script. 

Actor 

(2020, 2017)

Revived the role of Edwick and Jane for this horror play produced by No Peeking Theatre for the 2020 Frigid Theater Festival in NYC. The story of the Jersey Devil presented to a blindfolded audience, and catering to the other senses to tell the story.

"The vocal performances are terrific, from Jane's a-bit-too-precise enunciation to the unsettling quality of the outwardly innocent youngest child." -John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards, Thinking Theater NYC

Full Title: Viola: A Modern (Dance) Retelling of 'Twelfth Night'

Tisch Staff Grant Recipient (2019)

This was the second adaptation done through Idyll Shift. This project focused on Viola's experience throughout this play from arriving to the shore of Illyria to being roped into a marriage with a woman she does not love. This piece as performed as part of Idyll Shift's Workshop Performance in late 2019. 

Director 

(2019)

As part of coLAB Arts' 48hr Musicals, Mirrors  was staged among two other pieces that were written, memorized, directed, and performed in 48 hours. Book and lyrics were by LaChrisha Brown, and music by Matthew Ogonowski.  It was written response to the youth intervention work of Youth Advocate Programs.

Producer and Co-Host 

(2019)

A podcast series that investigates nineteen teen films through indepth conversations and jokes. 

Director 

(2019)

As part of Playhouse 22's Third Thursday Play Reading Series, The Hub  by Allyson Dwyer was presented as a staged reading featuring New Jersey actors. 

Full Title: Kate: A Modern (Dance) Retelling of 'Taming of the Shrew'

Tisch Staff Grant Recipient (2018)

The first project by Idyll Shift, this project was funded through the Tisch Staff Grant and through the Raritan Valley Community College Adjunct Research Grant. Kate  focuses on Katharina's experience throughout the play Taming of the Shrew  through dance and selected text. This piece was performed at the 2018 Rochester Fringe Festival and Idyll Shift's 2019 Workshop Performance. 

Director 

(2018)

Shakespeare's well-known and villainous tragedy, this was produced by ReThink Theatrical as part of their 2018 theatrical season. 

Writer and Acting Director  

(2017)

A historical revue of Broadway's classics. This show featured dance, singing, and acting in equal parts to show all the elements that made the world fall in love with the musical.