Devised Performance Company
Rough & Tumble Productions
Philadelphia-based | Co-Directed by Lillian Mae Ransijn
Rough & Tumble Productions creates physically-driven devised performance at the intersection of theater, movement, intimacy, and dark humor. The company’s work explores how bodies hold grief, risk, pleasure, and resilience—often blurring the line between performer and witness through immersive and ensemble-based forms.
Relationship to My Work
Rough & Tumble is the primary laboratory for my long-form artistic research. The company allows me to investigate embodied storytelling over time—how physical risk, consent, humor, and vulnerability operate in performance. This research directly informs my work as an intimacy coordinator, movement director, and educator across film, theater, and conservatory-style training.
SELECTED WORKS
Selected Projects
Selected Projects
Make Bank (2023)
A devised performance collaboration with world-renowned muralist, Meg Saligman, examining labor, precarity, and desire through physical comedy and choreographed chaos. Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Magic Trash Day (2023)
A playful ritual of accumulation and release, created for unconventional performance spaces. Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Pickled Peaches and Herring (2022)
A darkly comic exploration of inheritance, family myth, and bodily memory. Cannonball Festival.
Rough & Tumble (2018–ongoing)
An evolving performance series investigating intimacy, endurance, and the body as archive.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Ongoing Research: Grief Snake Skin
Grief Snake Skin is an ongoing interdisciplinary research project examining how grief lives in the body over time. Through performance, installation, and physical practice, the work asks how shedding, repetition, and transformation can be ritualized in contemporary performance contexts.