The right kind of simplicity is the result of “the hero’s immovable core,” and is a matter of grandeur and of strength, of perfect balance, of a heroic nakedness, of the raw elegance of the Lion.
- Edith Sitwell, A Poet’s Notebook
I write from a place of curiosity and investigation. I make theatre in search of wholeness.
My characters are both bright-eyed and starving. Fairy tale Wolves certain they are Little Red. These creatures they will do whatever it takes, up to and including diving down a chimney into a pig's raging fire. They don't understand why. All they know is: They are hungry, and they need to get inside.
I have been writing and developing, workshopping, and producing plays for the past eight years, through graduate school, through residencies, fellowships, and commissions. Through each project I strive to engage with a radical question through empathy and the imagination. Writing, for me, is a pursuit of realness, presence, truth. Action that is in the moment - a shared experience in real time. My plays have emerged through investigating mysteries. Recently: the disappearance of the honeybee (Telling the Bees: The Just Now), the emergence of young ladies playing baseball in 1866 (The Resolute), how to get the Danaids out of the lowest part of hell (The Bride Project), and the mechanisms of the transformative rite of passage known as “the gender reveal party” (Showing).
I have a need to solve for the key components of genre, whether it's a kitchen sink drama, a Greek tragedy, a ghost story, and everything in between. These stories live in times of transformation, the ocean where comedy and sorrow hold hands and try not to drown. No matter how far I run, to the other end of the world or the other side of time, these plays are, like me, fiercely, inescapably Southern.
- Edith Sitwell, A Poet’s Notebook
I write from a place of curiosity and investigation. I make theatre in search of wholeness.
My characters are both bright-eyed and starving. Fairy tale Wolves certain they are Little Red. These creatures they will do whatever it takes, up to and including diving down a chimney into a pig's raging fire. They don't understand why. All they know is: They are hungry, and they need to get inside.
I have been writing and developing, workshopping, and producing plays for the past eight years, through graduate school, through residencies, fellowships, and commissions. Through each project I strive to engage with a radical question through empathy and the imagination. Writing, for me, is a pursuit of realness, presence, truth. Action that is in the moment - a shared experience in real time. My plays have emerged through investigating mysteries. Recently: the disappearance of the honeybee (Telling the Bees: The Just Now), the emergence of young ladies playing baseball in 1866 (The Resolute), how to get the Danaids out of the lowest part of hell (The Bride Project), and the mechanisms of the transformative rite of passage known as “the gender reveal party” (Showing).
I have a need to solve for the key components of genre, whether it's a kitchen sink drama, a Greek tragedy, a ghost story, and everything in between. These stories live in times of transformation, the ocean where comedy and sorrow hold hands and try not to drown. No matter how far I run, to the other end of the world or the other side of time, these plays are, like me, fiercely, inescapably Southern.