About

Here's what I've got going on:

June 2026: Directing a reading of Doug Robinson's You, Who Love the Dead So Well at Clubbed Thumb

August 2026: Directing Eboni Booth's Primary Trust at Weston Theater Company

Ongoing collaborations: Danielle Stagger, Ida Cuttler, Tatiana Kougell-Hoell, Benjamin Benne, and Emily Breeze, among others.

Photo above by Ella Pennington.
Photo below by Giao Nguyen.

Here's a little bit about how I think about art:
As an artist, I aim to illuminate the realities of our lives through the exploration of the strange, the absurd, the magical, and the horrific. Using camp, spectacle, and impossibility, I create spaces where audiences can unpack the painful and frightening elements of our world through a circumstantial distance and investment in imagination. For me, theater has proven to be uniquely suited to activating the unfamiliar and the wondrous to create experiences of self-love, communal healing, and collective empathy. My artistry is oriented toward action – the idea that we have a responsibility to care for each other, and that our systems are a reflection of the world we are capable of imagining together, whether beautiful or destructive. These stories can be painful, but within the painful and the brutal, we get to witness the incredible resilience of humanity and our capacities for hope. My work has been described as magical, bold, political, and bizarre (in a good way).

Here's a little bit about what I've done:
I have spent the last decade building a career surrounding devised work and new plays, as well as urgent productions of classics. Recent work includes Henry IV, Part I (NYU Graduate Acting), SHREW an original adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (Union Arts Center), Enron by Lucy Prebble (Atlantic Acting School) Doug Robinson’s Cactus Queen, Suzan-Lori Park's Fucking A, and Macbeth (Yale School of Drama). Other work includes the world premiere of Susan Soon-He Stanton’s The Things are Against Us, Clare Barron’s Dance Nation; Alice Birch’s Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Washington Ensemble Theater); an devised piece based on real interviews called The Betrayal Project, Enda Walsh's Arlington, and Abigail Onwunali & Nomé SiDone's UDO (Yale Cabaret), Brendan Pelsue’s Wellesley Girl, BrechtFest, an original mash-up of Brecht plays served over a 3-course brunch (The Horse in Motion); and a site-specific Waiting for Godot performed on a Seattle pier (Arts on the Waterfront). I have directed readings and workshops with Clubbed Thumb, New York Theater Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, Union Arts Center, the Lark, and ACT, among others.

I am currently on faculty with the Playwriting department at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. Additional academic work includes teaching and directing at the Atlantic Acting School, Yale College, Cornish College of the Arts, and the University of Washington. I was the Associate Artistic Director with the Washington Ensemble Theatre and a founding Artistic Director of a site-specific and experimental theatre company, The Horse in Motion. I am an alumna of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival FAIR Fellowship, the Shakespeare & Company Women of Will Fellowship, and the SDCF Observership Program, a winner of a Seattle Times Footlight Award, and the recipient of the Donal Harrington Memorial Award in Directing. I am a member of the Lucille Lortel Alcove Circle. MFA: David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. SDC Associate Member.