Kurt Vonnegut said, “We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful who we pretend to be.”

This is the crux of everything I think about theatremaking. But, because this is a bio, I’ll go on a bit: I think of theatre as a worship of the human experience. We come together in a room with other people and we learn how to be a little better to each other before we leave.

At least. That’s the hope, anyway.

[Plays I love that do this so so well: What The Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schreck, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn, Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, Indecent by Paula Vogel, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer, John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower.]

I am an actor, dramaturg, and educator. I’m also an active listener, a Vonnegut enthusiast. A triplet (yes, a triplet). I’m an avid yoga practitioner and endurance runner. I have one tattoo of a yellow balloon behind my left ear.

I consider myself particularly adept at finding the intersections of strength and softness in my performances. Vermont locals may have seen my acting work in collaborations with Vermont Stage, The Foul Contending Rebels Theatre Co, The Furnace, Vermont Repertory Theatre, The Hub, and Lyric Theatre Company. Folks in North Carolina might have seen me with Paper Lantern Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Charlotte, and the North Carolina Theatre for Young People. I also acted once or twice while I was living in NYC before the pandemic kicked me out, but then I fell in love with Vermont and never looked back. So it goes.

As a dramaturg, I feel endless joy supporting playwrights in their efforts to magic whole worlds into existence. One of my closest collaborators and friends, Dara Pohl Feldman, referred to my dramaturgy style as “play-midwifery” - that feels right. My dramaturgical work has supported development and production processes in New York City, Chicago, London, & San Antonio.

I am the founder and lead coordinator of a new work program called Historically Close Friends, specializing in the creation and development of new plays that center/celebrate queer experiences & aesthetics. I am also the Festival Associate for the Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and volunteer as a theatre educator at Camp Treetops in the Adirondacks.

When I’m not making art, I daylight as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England.

I’m a proud alum of the National Theater Institute, and graduated with a BA in Drama and Minor in Musical Theatre from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.