Dramturgy
New Works Project, Illinois Theatre, 2025 -Lead Dramaturg
KCACTF Playwriting Competition, 2017-2024 -Region Three Reader
The Gangster Play: Circus Circus, Illinois Theatre, 2024 -Dramaturg
New Works Project, Illinois Theatre, 2023 -Lead Dramaturg
Impulse 24, Armory Free Theatre, 2022 -Devising Facilitator
The Heist, Illinois Theatre, 2021 -Narrative Designer (Escape Room)
Lysistrata, Illinois Theatre, 2020 -Dramaturg
Police Deaf Near Far, Illinois Theatre, 2020 -Dramaturg
Playwright
Below are samples of my work as a playwright. You can find full versions on the New Play Exchange website.
The Jones
This satire of a situation comedy is a story of a typical 1950s family in a typical 1950s suburb when a television arrives in their household. How far will the loving parents Stephen and Eve go to provide for their children and keep up with their neighbors? Will their children Junior and Missy get everything they deserve? Will Stephen crack under the pressure of providing for his family? Finally, will Eve become Queen of her castle for more than just one day?
Danny & Annie in Silicon Alley
In this not entirely suitable for an educational tour play Danny & Annie are young twins looking to start a new business to help fund their desire for new toys. They venture out into the world of Silicon Alley and learn the lessons of capitalism in today's gig economy as they join forces with other IT professionals and receive help from their angel (or devil?) investor Vinnie. Will they navigate this cutthroat world or will they be squashed like bugs? This somewhat musical adventure will surely entertain and educate any age!
Church
This 10 minute play revolves around a lesbian couple’s reaction to their preschool child’s desire to start attending church with his friends.
Bedfellows: A Play in Five Elections
Bedfellows is a bittersweet drama that looks at the lives of two men as it examines their relationship in moments of political change. It begins when they meet on election night 1992, next in the early fall of 2000. It then picks up in the early winter of 2008 and then again during the week before Thanksgiving 2016. It briefly concludes sometime in the not too distant future.
Video Projects
This is a sample assignment for THEA 360 to set expectations for students in creating their own preview/teasers as part of in class presentations.
These would be played in class the week before they presented on their assigned play.
This is an experimental concept piece using tweets from the week of 2020 presidential election as source documents in creating a spoken word piece. I used several text to speech voices to read the tweets and assembled them in iMovie.
This is a final project for a graduate seminar on performance artists.
I used Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger as a reference/inspiration to address Colonial Consumerism. I adjusted the aspect ratio to match the referencefootage.
This is a conference presentation of a paper that was shown in lieu of attending in person.
I used Blender Video to assemble four audio tracks and multiple video and still images to present a 17 minute paper.