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.

þæt wæs gōd cyning, “beyond the ingenue” festival with Turn To Flesh, Spring 2019
Photo credit: Lisa LaGrande

Sample writing prompt from Letters from Otherwhere, Summer 2020
Photo credit: Elizabeth Ballou

“Two Lips: Translated from the Dutch” from CryptoSHOTZ, June 2018
Photo credit: AMiOS

“I’m not here to make friends, Bitch!” from Green New SHOTZ!, May 2017
Photo credit: AMiOS

Parlor Tricks, Summer 2019
Photo credit: Laurel Andersen

Résumé

Produced Work

Playwright, SHOTZ! AMIOS, NYC May 2018 – Present
Wrote original short pieces for CryptoSHOTZ, SHOTZ Talks, SHOTZ Madness, Green New SHOTZ, Buffy the Vampire SHOTZ!, SHOTZ Trek, and ...And SHOTZ For Something ~~Completely~~ VIRTUALLY 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)