“I have known you for not very long, but
I’ve watched you for a long time.
I know that you have too much in you
And there are some people out there who are
very very
Empty
And they are
Very good at doing things with their faces
That you struggle to pull off”
My work pushes at the limits of what human parts we can give love or give real attention to — while also stretching the limits of physical space and reality on-stage. I love mixing rigorous stupidity, characters in denial, and spectacle worthy of a Technicolor musical to dive into the terror of attachment and seeing what we hate or fear in ourselves and how we do it.
Influenced by classic films from the ‘30s-’60s and armed with an art history bachelor’s thank you very much, I’m obsessed with fast dialogue and looking/images (which I integrate into my writing practice). Heroines of my most recent plays are a teenage girl whose prime masturbation years are interrupted by unexpected tragedy celebrity and a swimming movie star who unwillingly adopts an estranged friend’s orphaned teen just as she’s realizing her career needs saving — and I hope that audiences will find perhaps uncomfortable recognition in them.
recent, current, & upcoming:
Hunter College M.F.A., 2025
this is not the reunion at North Central College, 2024
Fault Line Theater Irons in the Fire semifinalist, 2024 (Vanessa the Miracle Girl)
EST/Youngblood finalist, 2024
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference semifinalist, 2023 (We’re Just Redoing the Kitchen)
Playwright’s Foundation Bay Area Playwrights Festival semifinalist, 2023 (We’re Just Redoing the Kitchen)
First Kiss Theater Resident, 2023
Find my work on NPX + see plays section below
about me
I’m a playwright and screenwriter pursuing an MFA at Hunter College. My plays have been developed with or commissioned by Fresh Ground Pepper, Workshop Theater, Art House Productions, Stagefemmes at Kenyon College, the Emerging Professional Residents at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and others. Recent recognition includes semifinalist placement for We're Just Redoing the Kitchen for both the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference and Playwrights Foundation's Bay Area Playwrights Festival, as well as finalist status for this year's EST/Youngblood cohort. My work lives in worlds that could crack open at any moment, and where people try really hard to say what they mean and often fail spectacularly. Favorite subjects include divas, existential panic, bodily dread, and obsession.
I’ve worked with young theatermakers as a mentor for Columbia University’s NOMADS New Play Festival, a reader and dramaturg for the O’Neill’s Young Playwrights Festival, and a career coach for Dramatic Writing students at NYU.
I studied playwriting at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and I returned to the O’Neill as a script assistant for its summer conferences. I’ve studied comedy writing at Upright Citizens Brigade and Second City, and I attended George Washington University in D.C., where I was an art history major.
plays
plays
some plays
read & find more on NPX!
Vanessa the Miracle Girl
A teenage Italian girl sees the David on a field trip and has an immediate sexual/artistic awakening -- just as an earthquake hits, killing all of her classmates and her teacher. She becomes an instant tragedy celebrity, worshipped by the Italian press. (References/influences include Funny Face, Giulietta Masina films, Caravaggio boys, and Party Girl.) It's a spectacle-laden, campy, art historical, gender-bendy coming-of-age story. It's also about bodies and the people who own them, and what happens when you realize you'll never be/create/possess a perfect piece.
Semifinalist, Fault Line Theater’s Irons in the Fire 2024
Reading, First Kiss Theater Residency, 2023 (dir. Tara Ahmadinejad)
We’re Just Redoing the Kitchen
When 19-year-old professional athlete Skyler sustains a career-threatening injury, she’s forced to move back to her parents’ home - which they’re renovating with cash from Skyler’s endorsement deals. There’s a disembodied hand taking the kitchen apart as everyone tries to eat breakfast, there’s never any yogurt, and Barbara Walters isn’t even on the View anymore. The family tries to find things to cling to that aren’t each other as everything around them literally crumbles.
Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference 2023
Semifinalist, Playwrights Foundation’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2023
Reading, INKubator New Play Development Program, 2021 (dir. Kat Yen)
this is not the reunion
You know when you're only a couple years out of college and you try to visit camp with your old camp friend group and it's just not the same, and you are just as scared as if not more scared than you were as a pre-teen of all the spooky things about it? And then your friends start to get picked off one by one by the ghost of a drowned girl from a ghost story someone wrote on the barn attic wall? It's so weird being in your twenties.
(Upcoming) Production, North Central College 2024
Reading, Historically Close Friends 2023 (dir. Caitlin Durkin)
Reading, Milwaukee Repertory Theater apprentice company 2023 (dir. Emily Newmark)
Commission (production canceled due to COVID), Stagefemmes at Kenyon College 2020 (dir. Autumn Gomez-Tagle)