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The Right Thing To Be Doing

“[Beginning] with the striking visual of a cargo ship worn as a headpiece, [The Right Thing To Be Doing] delights in the details through precise and imaginative use of objects and scale.” (SeattleDances)

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The Right Thing To Be Doing is a love story, fungal fantasy, and eco-freak-out. Featuring a transforming cargo ship, a lecturing mushroom, and a polyamorous- synth-pop commune, this solo show confronts the complicity of siloed living amidst disaster. With humor and “striking visuals” (SeattleDances), it asks: what can we learn from the nonhuman systems growing beneath our feet?​

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Set at an ecology-conference that keeps derailing, the show features large-scale wearable sculpture, transforming miniatures, meandering storytelling, and immersive, live sound. Finn shapeshifts characters – human and nonhuman – to explore the uncertainty, implication and fragile hope of survival within systems in crisis.

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Upcoming performances  in NYC January 2027 at JACK as part of Exponential Festival. Tickets coming soon!

January 14 at 7pm

January 15 at 8:30pm

January 16 at 1:30pm and 5pm

January 17 at 1:30pm​

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Past presentations

Mulino, Oregon -  Radical Mycology Convergence, September 2026

Portland , Oregon  - Portland Institute of Contemporary Art,  Risk/Reward headliner, June 2026

Vancouver, BC, Canada  - Studio presentation at Goldcorp, September 2025

Vancouver, BC, Canada  - Boombox, April 2024  (WIP)

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Photos by Chelsey Stuyt.

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By In Spite Productions. Learn more here. 

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55 minutes full-length performance and 20 minute excerpt available for touring.

 

Original Creative Team:

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Created and performed by Sarah K. Finn

Sound Design: Samira Banihashemi (سمیرا بنی هاشمی) and Adam Smith

Lighting Design: Czarina Agustines and Alexandra Caprara

Props: Marianne Gagnon, Sarah K. Finn, Hailey Gil

Scenic Design + Fabrication: Hailey Gil

Costume Design: Rowan Adams, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg,  Sarah K. Finn

Stage Manager: Maddy Woodley

Assistant Stage Manager: Vania Ngok

Outside eyes:  Justine Chambers, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Miwa Matreyek, Joanna Garfinkel, Kira Radosevik

Design Consultant: Wlad Woyno

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