About

Here's what I've got going on:

January 2026: Workshop of Benjamin Benne's and thou shalt be healed as part of the New Works Northwest festival.

Ongoing collaborations: Pair with Danielle Stagger, PODIUM with Ida Cuttler, and Fuck Me, I'm Grieving with Tatiana Kougell-Hoell, 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 SHREW an original adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (Union Arts Center), BRKN by Abigail C. Onwunali (Ensemble Studio Theater), Enron by Lucy Prebble (Atlantic Acting School) and Doug Robinson’s Cactus Queen (Yale School of Drama). Before moving East for graduate school, I directed almost twenty productions in Seattle, including 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); 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 New York Theater Workshop, 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 have been a finalist for the following: Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, WP Theater Writer/Director Lab, New Georges Jam. MFA: David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. SDC Associate Member.