Cody Holliday Haefner

Presented to hundreds of three-to-six-year-olds in Seattle, this is a reworked 15-minute traveling educational children’s version of an original devised piece originally created at the University of Washington in 2018. Using puppetry and dance the show tells the true story of Nigel, an endangered seabird who fell in love with a statue. It opens up conversations with young audiences about working together, protecting the environment, grief, and hope.

Conceived and Directed by:
Cody Holliday Haefner
Devised, choreographed, and performed by:
Kai Kohring, Megumi Hosaka, and Katie Daugherty

2020 was a year that changed the world. How did it changed you? Hindsight 2020 was a collaboration of international artists in various disciplines creating a devised virtual time capsule seeking to answer the question: What parts of 2020 will you leave behind or bring with you?

I designed and puppeteered all of the shadow puppets for the show, and also contributed as a performer and writer.

Credits:

Directed and Conceived By: Rebecca Haley Clark

Devising Cast: Cody Holliday Haefner, Cree Noble, Gilda Mercado, Helen Hy-Yuen Swanson, Katherine Tanner Silverman, Rylan Gleave, Sanjay Lago, Simone Seales, Stephanie Mareen, and Vic Rodriguez

Assistant Director: Cree Noble

Dramaturg: Tanvi Shah

Stage Manager: Kat Phillips

Poster Design: Ally Johnson

Produced by: Those Women Productions

Men on Boats

by Jaclyn Backhaus

Directed by Charise Greene & Cody Holliday Haefner

Presented by the Barnard College Department of Theatre

at the Minor Latham Playhouse

Set Design: Audrey Vuong

Costume Design: IIana Lupkin

Lighting Design: Adam Honoré

Sound Design: Broken Chord

Featuring: Angie Bolton, Alyssa Franks, Allyson Lee Brown, AJ Friday, Semaj Miller, Brace Evans, Phillip Ray Guevara, Alana Cheshire

Photos by Jody Christopherson

Rutherford and Son
by Githa Sowerby
Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

Presented by the University of Washington
at The Floyd & Delores Jones Playhouse
3rd Year MFA Thesis Production

Set Design: Adair McCormack
Costume Design: Chanté Hamann
Lighting Design: Ranleigh Starling

Featuring: Angie Bolton, Alyssa Franks, Allyson Lee Brown, AJ Friday, Semaj Miller, Brace Evans, Phillip Ray Guevara, Alana Cheshire

Photos by Kyler Martin and Jordan Pope

Review - The Daily

by Charles Mee

Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

Presented by the University of Washington
at The Floyd & Delores Jones Playhouse
2nd Year MFA Directing Mainstage Production

Set Design: Shin-Yi Lin
Costume Design: Emily Woods-Hogue
Lighting Design: Amber Parker
Sound Design: AD Kassing
Fight Choreography: Geoff Alm
Choreography: Jessica Thorne, Cody Holliday Haefner & the ensemble

Featuring: Bridget McKevitt, Alyssa Franks, Allyson Brown, Annie Willis, Taylor Jones, Phillip Ray Guevara, Allen Miller, Alana Cheshire, Tricia Castañeda-Gonzales, Jessica Thorne, Bria Henderson, Adrian Tafesh

Review - The Daily

Photos by Isabel Le and Kenrick Fisher

by Harold Pinter

Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

University of Washington
2nd Year MFA Studio Project

Costume Design by Chante Hamann
Set Design by Ranleigh Starling
Lighting Design by Trevor Cushman

Featuring Porscha Shaw and André G Brown

An original silly and sweet devised dance-theatre work based on the story of Nigel “no mates”

University of Washington Workshop Showing (2018)

Conceived and directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

Devised and choreographed by Kai Kohring, Valerie Huang, Aaron Jin, Brian LaPerche, Alex Sturtevant, and Cody Holliday Haefner

Redeveloped as a children’s dance-theater piece with Kai Kohring, Megumi Hosaka, and Katie Daugherty, with a workshop showing for hundreds of preschool and early elementary age students in May 2022 in Seattle, WA.

by Mike Bartlett

Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theater
University of Washington
First Year MFA Directing Lab Production

Lighting Design by Amber Parker
Costume Design by Pamela Weinzatl

Featuring Phillip Ray Guevara, Tricia Castañeda-Gonzales, Mark Fox and Tom Fraser

HamletGhosts is an original devised work I conceived and directed as a way of exploring my relationship as an artist with death. The show was created by the ensemble performed at HERE, The Rochester Fringe Festival, and Dixon Place.

Photos from the production at HERE

Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

Costume Design by Ilana Breitman
Lighting Design by Luc Michel

Devised by Cody Holliday Haefner, Emily Kaplan, Julia Izumi, Alex Hare, Matthew McShane, Claudia Givings, Kaitlin Kaufmann, Olivia Levine, Jake Lasser, Theo Maltz and Rebecca Clark with additional contributions from Brandon O’Sullivan, Caroline Siewert, and Max Silver

Review - Onstage Blog

Photos by Thomas Kapusta

by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner and Thomas Kapusta

Presented by The Brewing Dept.
at 133rd Arts Center

Set Design by Stephen Davan and Jiin Choi
Costume Design by Ilana Breitman
Sound Design by Jess Malcolm
Lighting Design by Camille Simoneau

Yonatan Gebeyehu as Ballested
Emily Kaplan as Bolette
Lorenzo Landini as Arnholm
Brian LaPerche as Lyngstrand
Matthew McShane as The Stranger
Daniel O'Neill as Dr. Wangel
Caroline Siewert as Ellida
Jenny Vallancourt as Hilda

by Sylvia Khoury

Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

A World Premiere Production
at Manhattan Rep

Dramaturg - Tom Kapusta
Fight Choreographer - Alex Shaw
Set Design - Noriko Ohashi
Costume Design - Hillary Kritt
Lighting Design - Camille Simoneau
Sound Design - Jess Malcolm

The Cast:

Pierre - Josh Quat
Albert/Narrator - Daniel O'Neill
Sofie - Victoria Pollack

by Brian LaPerche

Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

New York International Fringe Festival

Set Design by Stephen Davan
Lighting Design by Camille Simoneau
Sound Design by Jess Malcolm
Projection Design by Jiin Choi and Michael Tsu

Review - The Happiest Medium

by Michael John LaChiusa

Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

Undergraduate Senior Thesis Project
Columbia University

Set Design by Noriko Ohashi
Costume Design by Amy Larrowe
Lighting Design by Camille Simoneau

Review - Columbia BWOG
Sound Design by Jess Malcolm

by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

Directed by Cody Holliday Haefner

Columbia University Players

Review - Columbia BWOG

Photos by Ajit Pillai