PLAYS
Full Length
I LOVE HOW YOU LOVE ME
Reading @ The Brick Aux, 2024 - dir. Michael Herwitz
Reading @ Play Date at Pete' Candy Store, 2020 - dir. Rory McGregor
In southwestern Alaska, an increasingly confused engaged couple court their beloved roommate, a queer burlesque artist moving soon to "the lower forty-eight." A romantic comedy.
VERY BLUE LIGHT
Workshop @ UT Austin Dept. of Theater and Dance (UT New Theater Festival), 2023 - dir. Kristen Osborn
A trans woman in Marfa, TX was likely abducted by aliens, but her friends don't believe her. She seeks answers from the Marfa Lights, and discovers that she (and others around her) are extraterrestrial.
DIRTBAG STACKS
Reading @ Crashbox, Austin, 2022 - dir. Emily Moler
Horrifying and erotic episodes from a young woman's life come back to haunt her, in the style of the Grand-Guignol.
SIX YEARS OLD
Corkscrew Festival, 2019; reading @ The Bushwick Starr, 2019 - dir. Helen Handelman
Review: TheaterScene.net
Available through: DPS
Supported by a well-meaning caregiver and little brother, a trans six-year-old takes measures to accelerate their growth into an idealized version of their favorite fictional character.
POUND
Reading @ The Tank, 2018 - dir. Logan Reed
SEMI-FINALIST for the 2019 Relentless Award
A bar mitzvah candidate and his family ungracefully reckon with the institutional violence at an East Texas animal shelter.
ANTIGONE
a new adaptation of the "Theban Plays"
@ The Secret Theater, 2015
Review: Theatre is Easy
Anne witnesses her father's demise, tries to save her brother, and gets into hot water with Haemon's dad. An integration of all material related to Antigone and Ismene across Sophocles' retroactively-compiled trilogy.
Shorts
O, the Humanity - Masters Salon Reading Series - UT Austin, 2022
Astronauts colonizing Mars spar with whales colonizing the Mariana Trench. An ecoplay with music.
Call Me Venus - American Playwriting Foundation Time Capsule Series, 2020 - dir. Danya Taymor
Two queer teens hang out behind a Target and attend a funeral.
Polycule - Little Theater @ Dixon Place, 2018 - dir. Rory McGregor
A series of emotional equations expressed in repeated language.
Snack Time - ¡Oye! Avant Garde Festival - JACK, 2017
A gentrifying convenience store makes a case for itself.
F
FELLOWSHIPS etc.
MacDowell Fellow, 2023
Summer Resident, Sitka Fellows Program, Sitka, AK, 2018
Travel Fellow, Fabrica de Pinsule/Center for International Theater Development, Cluj-Napoca, RO, 2016
EDUCATION and TEACHING
MFA in Theatre (Playwriting); University of Texas at Austin, 2023
Developed and taught a new playwriting course focused on building drafting skills, developing traditional and alternative dramaturgy practices, and gaining familiarity with the contemporary dramatic field.
BA Dramatic Literature and Performance Studies, New York University, 2016
MUSIC
GO HOME - with Travis Emery Hackett, Zak Houston, and Marlena Mack
MOTHERCAT - with Zak Houston
sa_phne - ongoing solo electronic project
asmr4apocalypse - zavé martohardjono - Artists Space (New York, NY,) Segue Reading Series
Welcome to the Gun Show - Julia Sirna-Frest & Shane Chapman
City Winery, 2019
Exponential Festival @ The Slipper Room, 2018
ANT FEST @ Ars Nova, 2017
Saw Songs - singing saw - Fast and the Furious Fest - The Tank, 2017