About Me
my journey
I have been immersed in all things theatre ever since I saw Les Miserables at the age of twelve, and became certain that I would be performing on Broadway one day. Being a huge extrovert, I performed in as many shows as I could book, sometimes doing two or three at once, and by the time I finished high school I had been involved in over 50 stage productions. In high school I also had my first tastes of set design, lighting, sound design, stage managing, and directing. Novel-writing was also a hobby of mine, but I kept these two creative outlets mostly separate.
I wrote my first play, Ghost Light, my sophomore year of high school. Because I had such a rich background in various positions around the theatre, I crafted a play that was not only narratively gripping but also easy to direct, design, and ultimately produce. Ghost Light got its time in the spotlight when it was accepted into MadLab Theatre's Young Writer's Program, a highly competitive playwriting competition for high schoolers in central Ohio. It was then that I knew I not only wanted to make a career out of playwriting, but that I could.
Since then, I have only fallen more in love with scriptwriting. I attended NYU Tisch to study Dramatic Writing with a focus in playwriting, and in the process have created a plethora of works for the stage. I am now based in Jersey City and continue to work behind the scenes as a professional stage manager throughout the NYC/NJ area. As a playwright, I write primarily dramas and dark comedies, focusing on themes of grief, queerness, and mortality, and strive to create representation for those who rarely see themselves on the stage.
My ultimate career goal is to write something that is strong enough to be well-known in the theatre canon, and true enough for republicans to want it banned.
my affiliations
- Dramatists Guild of America (2020-Present)
- Ring of Keys (2021-Present)
my favorites
- Musicals: Pippin, Spring Awakening (especially Deaf West's production), The Prom, Falsettos, Les Miserables, Beetlejuice
- Plays: Hir (Taylor Mac), She Kills Monsters (Qui Nguyen), The Foreigner (Larry Shue), Touch the Moon (Arianna Rose), Do You Feel Anger (Mara Nelson-Greenberg), A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
- Films: A Quiet Place: Day One, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, Jumanji, CODA
- TV Shows: Better Call Saul, Gen V, Killing Eve, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, You
- Music: Badflower, Vienna Vienna, Bug Hunter, MCR
Note: I am a certified AI-hater. Absolutely no AI has ever or will ever be used in any part of my brainstorming, writing, or editing processes, nor to create the cover art for my plays. I enjoy every part of the creative process and will never outsource that joy to an environment-killing plagiarism machine.
I do not authorize the use of my work to train AI models, nor do I authorize theatre companies to feed my scripts to AI for any reason. Please contact me if you need a plot summary, a character list, or any other information about the script that you do not have time to skim for on your own and I will be more than happy to help.
