Work
I love: unsolved things, archival research, world-building, queering genre fiction, complicated women+, dalliances with unlikeability, mysteries, the monstrous, magical realism, and the tragedy of ghosts. Learning to be a better intersectional feminist. Constructivism and different brains. Languages in all their twisty graftings and illogical roots. I love humor, games, and the way children tell stories. Consent. Exuberance. Revenge. Punch lines and poptimism.
I know: that I’m not done yet. Not even close. I’m always looking for new collaborators who I can learn from and create with. If you want to be one of those people please contact me.
Résumé
Produced Work
- Playwright and Post-Production Editor, The Screenlit Series Match:Lit, NYC Oct 2020 – Present
Wrote screenplay and did post-production on a short horror film for the first Screenlit Series
- Playwright, SHOTZ! AMIOS, NYC May 2018 – May 2020
Wrote original short pieces for CryptoSHOTZ, SHOTZ Talks, SHOTZ Madness, Green New SHOTZ, Buffy the Vampire SHOTZ!, SHOTZ Trek, and ...And SHOTZ For Something
CompletelyVIRTUALLY Different! festivals - Playwright, Drunk 24 and "Site" Specific Exquisite Corpse Company, Brooklyn Feb 2020 – Present
Collaborated with other playwrights to create short pieces in 24 hours, including one on Zoom
- Playwright All Out Arts, Inc., NYC Feb 2018 – July 2019
Wrote a full-length play, Parlor Tricks, which had a developmental reading at South Oxford Space and opened the 17th annual Fresh Fruit Festival, winning four “Fruitie” awards
- Playwright Turn to Flesh Productions, NYC Nov 2018 & June 2019
Commissioned to write þæt wæs gōd cyning to showcase four femme+ artists as part of the first annual Beyond the Ingenue Festival. Also wrote a monologue, Lachesis, for Cocktails and Classics Festival
- Playwright Undiscovered Countries’ Magic Time, NYC Jan 2019
Short piece …and that’s how I got burnt performed at Judson Memorial Church
- Playwright CAPS LOCK Theatre, NYC April 2017 & Jan 2019
Wrote monologues with and for various artists for PUSSYFESTs 4 and 6
Dramaturgy Experience
- Literary Manager, SHOTZ! AMIOS, NYC March – May 2018
Served as dramaturg for multiple festivals of short plays written under specific guidelines
- Founder and Teacher P.S. 8 Playwriting Club, Brooklyn Sept 2016 – June 2017
Wrote curricula and taught a playwriting and dramaturgy club for children in grades 1-5 which culminated in staged readings of each child’s plays by professional actors
- Dramaturg The Inkwell, Washington, DC Mar 2013 – Jan 2016
Assisted emerging playwrights in preparing their plays for public staged readings
- Dramaturgical and Production Intern Synetic Theater, Washington, DC Nov 2013 – Jan 2014
Assisted with production and dramaturgical processes for an experimental theater company
Narrative Design
- Letters From Otherwhere Co-Designer June – Aug 2020
Co-designed and led (with Elizabeth Ballou) a 10-session, zoom-based game design / playwriting workshop for tweens and teens. It incorporated these academic elements into the narrative of a letter-writing RPG, which we also built for the kids. Want us to run it for you? Contact me!
- Narrative Designer 1492 Studios and Ubisoft, NYC Aug 2019 – Jan 2020
Wrote the script for a choice-based romance video game for a major studio
Skills and Interests
- Proficient in French, with a reading knowledge of Latin, Old English, Medieval French, and Old Norse
- Member in good standing of the Dramatists’ Guild
- Member of various interdisciplinary writing groups since 2015
- M.S. Childhood Special Education from CUNY Hunter College, New York City Teaching Fellowship (2017)
- B.A. Medieval Studies from University of Virginia (2012)