What’s new

  • My play The Gradient has been translated into French (Nuances™) and will be produced by Théâtre La Licorne in Montreal this February! More info here.

  • Am working on a short story collection, which I started workshopping through Sackett Street Writers this summer.

  • Recently workshopped my new play Adjuncts with director Caitlin Ryan O’Connell and a brilliant group of actors via New Georges’ Audrey Residency.

Recent

Had a really magical month as a MacDowell fellow this past February!

My short story “Skin Check” was published in the New Ohio Review and nominated for “Best of the Net.You can read or listen to me narrate the story here.

I got to spend a truly incredible month in Genoa, Italy as a Bogliasco Foundation Fellow. (Photo by Laura Bianchi.)

My play Precarious opened the Playwrights’ Center’s Ruth Easton New Play Series, directed by Jaki Bradley and featuring Maggie Bearmon-Pistner, Olivia Wilusz, and JuCoby Johnson .

My short story “Out of Body” is the winner of the Mississippi Review Prize in Fiction and is published in their summer issue, Vol. 51 1&2. You can purchase a copy here!

Precarious opened the June 2023 Cape Cod Theatre Project season directed by Laura Dupper.

53% Of is published by Concord Theatricals!

Pictured on the shelf at Drama Bookshop in New York. You can purchase your copy in the store or here.

Had a great time workshopping my new play Precarious with actors for the first time at The Playwrights’ Center with director Pirronne Yousefzadeh.

Really excited to make a new play with director Caitlin Ryan O’Connell as a 2023 New Georges Audrey Resident!

Had a really idyllic time as an artist-in-residence at Studio Faire in France.

The Gradient is now published by Concord Theatricals!

My play Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill was produced at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, directed by Colette Hamilton and featuring MFA Acting students.

Loved my residency at Willapa Bay AIR in September 2022.

Had an amazing five weeks as an Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in July/August 2022!

The world premiere of my play 53% Of opened off-Broadway at Second Stage Theater in June 2022, directed by Tiffany Nichole Greene and featuring Marianna McClellan, Anna Crivelli, Grace Rex, Eden Malyn, Cathryn Wake, and Ayana Workman. (Pictured.)

I’m now a Core Writer at The Playwrights’ Center!

Spent a great week in November workshopping my play Life Savers with La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad.

The world premiere of my play The Gradient opened at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in October 2021, directed by Amelia Acosta Powell and featuring Stephanie Machado, Christina Acosta Robinson, Bill DeMeritt, Yousof Sultani, and Stephen Cefalu!

Really floored to be one of the winners of the Steinberg Playwright Awards.

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition commissioned me to write a short piece about the Election Protection Hotline that they turned into an animated film.

My short piece is included in the book Theater Artists Making Theatre With No Theater.