2025
Griot – Reed College Performing Arts Center, with Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater
360° performance with 5-projector design (May workshop/September run)
Choreography by Oluyinka Akinjiola and Michael Galen, featuring Griot Massamba Diop
2024
Alembic Artist Performance: Let’s Dance – Pacific NW Works
Video/projection design with Katherine Longstreth & Jen Mitas
Performance blending lecture, text, and movement; investigation of AI & the body
2019
Anicca – Reed College Performing Arts Center, with Minh Tran & Company
360° video/projection design, 6 projectors, 16:1 aspect
2018
Always Patsy…The Musical – Broadway Rose Theater Company, 2 projector design, QLab interface
2015 Americans with Disabilities Act Awareness Campaign – 25th Anniversary, Times Square JumboTron, produced by Comcast
Soliloquy – Whitney Museum (Heidi Latsky Dance), John Hess Family Theater
2014
Muscle Memory – Pillsbury House Theatre, with NEA Fellow & poet LaTasha Diggs
2013
FREE: Amplified – Lincoln Center, David Rubenstein Atrium
Poetry of Sekou Sundiata performed by HPrizm, Tamar-kali, Douglas Kearney, Val-Jeanty, Kassa Overall, Lisette Santiago
2011
Provenance of Beauty – A Bronx Travelogue – Arena Stage, Kogod Cradle Theatre
Written by Claudia Rankine, directed by Melanie Joseph, The Foundry Theatre
Featured multi-camera filming with 3-screen immersive projection
2010 Fire + Fire – Symphony Space; ACMA nominee Valerie June; collaboration uniting Hungarian Gypsies & Black Americans
In Search of the Invisible People – Dixon Place, directed by Niles Ford, Urban Dance Collective (danceumentary on underground house music culture)
2009 Breaking the Silence, Beating the Drum – United Nations; featuring Akon, Danny Glover, Gilberto Gil, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Nelson Mandela, Whoopi Goldberg, Muhammad Ali, among others
Landscape on Hold – Painted Bride Arts Center, choreographers Marianela Boan, Gabri Christa, Tania Isaac
2008 A Brush with Georgia – St. Luke’s Theater, written/performed by Natalie Mosco, directed by Robert Kalfin (New York Times: “Projections by Marilys Ernst…gentle glimpses of her remarkable canvases…lush, abstract, entrancingly atmospheric.”)
Penelope – The Labowitz Theatre, created/performed by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Lisa Rothe
2006 Life of Galileo – Skirball Performing Arts Center, directed by Robert Kalfin (guest lecturer credit, NYU production)
2005 Major Bang, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb – St. Ann’s Warehouse, directed by Paul Lazar (international tour, mirror-based projection design)
History of Tears – Abe Burrows Theatre, directed by Nick Phillippou; music by Michael Cerveris (three-projector/live band integration, NYU)
2004 A Tragedy in 9 Lives – PS 122, directed by Stephen Nunns; video/projection design using spy cameras, televisions, projectors
Trick Saddle – PS 122, created by Clove Galilee & Jenny Rogers; three-headed synchronized projection system
Dominata – Dance Theater Workshop, choreographer Gabri Christa (NYT: “Atmospheric video by Marilys Ernst is woven seamlessly into this rich fabric…”)
2003 Americana – Aaron Davis Hall, choreographer Gabri Christa (international tour)
The Persians – Michael Schimmel Center, adapted by Ellen McLaughlin, directed by Ethan McSweeney; starring Lou Cariou & Roberta Maxwell
Peripheral City: A Living Documentary – Brooklyn Arts Council & Red Dive; sound/projection design for site-specific canal boat performance
2002
TALK – Public Theater, playwright Carl Hancock Rux, directed by Marion McClinton; performed by Anthony Mackie, Maria Tucci, Karen Kandel
Featured dynamic projection design | Awards: 2002 OBIE Award for Videography; nominated for ATW Hewes Design Award
Awards & Recognition
OBIE Award for Videography (TALK, 2002)
ATW Hewes Design Award Nominee (TALK, 2002)
Press recognition: New York Times reviews praising projection work