Writer / Performer
RESUME
MFA in Writing for Screen and Stage
Northwestern University
June 2016
MA in English
Middlebury College
July 2014
BA in English and Theatre
Princeton University
June 2008
EDUCATION
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESIDENCIES
Resident Writer
Coeurage Theatre Company
2020
Resident Writer
Echo Theatre Company
2020
Spoolers Fellow
Hook & Eye at the Flea Theatre
2019
Playwright Fellow
Lambda Literary (Luis Alfaro, mentor)
2018
Resident Writer
Fresh Ground Pepper BRB
2018
Resident Writer (PlayLab)
Skylight Theatre
(Lee Blessing, mentor)
2018 - Now
Resident Writer
National Winter Playwrights Conference
at Creede, CO
2017
Rancho Santa Anita
Coeurage Theatre Company
2020
Waiting for a Wake
Skylight Theatre Company
2020
Pleasure Men
Hook & Eye Theatre
(New York)
2019
The Califas Trilogy
Company of Angels
(Los Angeles)
2018
Peter Pan
Serenbe Playhouse
(Atlanta)
2018
The Wind People
Steep Theatre
(Chicago)
2016
Hard Palate
The Fire This Time Festival
(NYC)
2015
COMMISSIONS
Semi-finalist
Many Voices Fellowship
Playwrights’ Center
2020
Semi-finalist
Jerome Fellowship
Playwrights’ Center
2020
Semi-finalist
2050 Fellowship
New York Theatre Workshop
2020
Chuck Rowland Pioneer Award
Celebration Theatre and West Hollywood
2020
Timeout Top
LGBTQ Events and Off-Off B’way Shows
2019
Finalist
ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest
2019
Finalist
Lark Playwrights’ Week
2018
Finalist
Piven Center Lab
2018
Semi-finalist
Bay Area Playwrights Conference
2018
Nominee
B Free People’s Choice Award
2018
Semi-finalist
Shonda Rhimes Unsung Voices Fellowship
2017
Finalist
Activate: Midwest Play Festival
2015
Nominee
New York Theatre Innovators Innovator Award
Best Short
2015
Semi-finalist
Theatre Masters
2015
Encore! Producers’ Award
Hollywood Fringe Festival
2014
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Burns in Their Veins: A Pio Pico Story
(epic theatre; complete script available)
As California becomes a white (I mean, American) state, the last Mexican governor of California
tries to use the new “rule of law” to his advantage, causing his downfall.
Echo Theatre Company Lab
In Development; 2020
Lavender Man
(queer historical fantasia; complete script available)
Contemporary gender non-conformist Taffeta (they/them) plays post-mordem matchmaker to
Abe Lincoln and his queer legal assistant Elmer Ellsworth, only to realize they are the one who
needs real love healing.
Circle in the Square (Broadway), NYC Staged Reading
Staged Reading; 2019
Skylight Theatre, LA
Staged Reading; 2019
The White Dress
(full-length performance work; drama; complete script available)
Jonathan wears dresses, kisses girls, shames his family, and banishes the gender
binary to hell.
Access Theater, NYC
World Premiere (AEA Showcase) (TimeOut Top LGBTQ & Off-Off B’way Happenings); 2019
The Araca Project, NYC
AEA Showcase; 2017
Bootleg Theater, LA
Staged Reading; 2017
Kraine Theatre, NYC
Staged Reading; 2017
The Pride of Lions
(full-length historical drama; in progress)
In 1928, five female impersonators were imprisoned for indecency after performing in Mae
West’s The Pleasure Man. This is what happened on their first night in jail.
The Flea Theatre, NYC
Staged Reading; 2019
Salome
(music/performance work; excerpt available)
A post-pop take on the myth of Salome, the free-spirited girl who defied her mother,
exposed her false-king stepfather, and made off with the head of John the Baptist;
developed with co-bookwriter Michael Alvarez and lyricist composer Ella Grace.
New York Theatre Workshop
Excerpt Showing; October 2018
Peter Pan
(site-specific musical; complete script available)
A new musical pirate adventure inspired by the work of J.M. Barrie;
commissioned by Serenbe Playhouse.
Serenbe Playhouse
World Premiere; May 2018
The Wind People (formerly Blackjack)
(full-length drama; complete script available)
A white Texan grandmother and mixed grandson bond when she is nurseless and he
returns from the pen; commissioned by Steep Theatre.
Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA
Reading; February 2018
Nat’l Winter Playwrights Conference
Reading; February 2018
New Group Theatre, New York
Reading; December 2018
Steep Theatre, Chicago
Commission Reading; April 2016
Onion Creek
(full-length historical fantasia; complete script available)
A celibate mixed-race peach farmer meets an Irish sojourner, and his sexual awakening is
devastating.
Northwestern University
Reading; March 2016
Son of Semele Theatre, LA
Workshop Production; December 2011
Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA
Reading; March 2010
Orange Woman
(full-length historical fantasia; complete script available)
An African dancer in Queen Elizabeth I’s court falls for Shakespeare, then plies prostitution
after rejecting him.
Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA
Staged Reading; December 2009
Princeton at McCarter Theatre
University Production; April 2008
Full-Length Plays and Performance Works
Short/One Act Plays and Performance Works
Rancho Santa Anita
(audio play; drama; complete script available)
In the 1830s, a chance meeting between fledging civic mogul Pio Pico and journeyman John
Forster sparks a perilous partnership not even Faust could have prefigured.
Coeurage Theatre Company
Audio Play Production; 2020
From Kaya
(monologue; drama; complete script available)
A formerly incarcerated transgender woman celebrates newfound freedom.
24 Hour Plays, Performed by L Morgan Lee
Virtual Reading; 2020
Nadine
(monologue; drama; complete script available)
A man remembers his recently deceased wife in a unique and surprising way.
24 Hour Plays, Performed by Wayne Brady
Virtual Reading; 2020
The Sapiens
(short play; drama; complete script available)
Future humans return to a deserted earth to learn about the intimacy their ancestors once knew.
Contagious Closet Plays
Published Via Instagram; 2020
Softer
(ten-minute play; drama; complete script available)
On Emancipation Day, master Charlie and body servant Ishmael test their bond against
freedom’s lure.
Hollywood Fringe Festival
Festival Production; June 2016
Chicago Dramatists
Staged Reading; February 2016
Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA
Staged Reading; July 2015
The Duat
(one-act performance work; solo show; complete script available)
A former COINTELPRO informant battles for his soul’s redemption in the Egyptian afterlife.
Son of Semele Theater, LA
Festival Production; July 2017
Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA
Staged Reading; July 2015
UC Berkeley
Staged Reading; March 2012
Middlebury College
Staged Reading; July 2011
Hard Palate
(ten-minute play; drama; complete script available)
Two gay men play the Tindr game and try their hand at romance in the Age of PrEP;
commissioned by the Fire This Time Festival.
Kraine Theatre, NYC
Festival Production; January 2016
(Nominee, Theatre Innovator Award, Best Short)
Booth
(one-act performance work; solo show; complete script available)
John Wilkes Booth broods on surrender in a Virginia farm after shooting the president.
Son of Semele Theatre, LA
Festival Production; July 2015
Hollywood Fringe Festival
June 2014
(Winner, Encore! Producers’ Award)
Lizzie
(one-act play; drama; complete script available)
Modiste Elizabeth Keckley gives widowed Mary Lincoln a consolation gift after a hapless
clothing auction.
Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA
Festival Production; July 2016
Hollywood Fringe Festival
June 2014
(Winner Encore! Producers’ Award)
Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA
Reading December 2009
PUBLICATIONS
Softer
Emerge: LAMDA Literary Journal
March 2019
The White Dress (Excerpt)
Ano Ba Zine
December 2017
“5 Questions” Column
Better Lemons
May 2017 - Present
“Theatrically Speaking, What Turns Me On?”
The Dramatist
July/August 2013
Orange Woman: A Ballad for a Moor
Princeton Mudd Library
May 2008
“Non-traditional Casting in Boris Godunov,”
Pushkin Review Volume 10, pp. 16-17