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Highlights

2019 Amy Award, Poets & Writers

2019 Work-Study Scholarship, Bread Loaf

2019 Bill Ransom Scholar, Port Townsend Writer’s Conference

Playmakers Playwright and Resident Artist, Purple Rose Theatre Company

2018-2019 Resident Artist, The Tank NYC

PLAYS

Bad Egg— co-written/created with Michelle Tailor (Full Length)

Synopsis: When a former MMA fighter and Army Veteran returns from war in Afghanistan, she finds her mother dead, her father married to her aunt, and her inheritance at stake. Haunted by grief and propelled by revenge, Hamlet must face the ghost of her mother, along with the ghosts of Afghanistan, to enact justice within a community that has grown power-hungry and rotten.

• Public Reading— Purple Rose Theatre Company, December 7, 2019

• Greenhouse Workshop—Purple Rose Theatre Company, November 21- November 22, 2019

• Works in Progress Showing—The Tank NYC, April 27, 2019

• Staged Reading—Dixon Place, January 11, 2019

Winter in Eden (Full Length)

Synopsis: Winter in Eden is a lyrical re-imagining of the Garden of Eden. As the characters discover their sexuality and death, they bring on Eden’s first winter. Elin, the first woman, must choose between a newfound consciousness and the life that she has always known.

• Public Reading + Workshop—Burning Coal Theatre Company, June 2- June 5, 2019

• Works in Progress Showing—Dixon Place, May 18, 2018

• Greenhouse Workshop—Purple Rose Theatre Company, November 16- November 18, 2016

• Public Reading + Greenhouse Workshop—Purple Rose Theatre Company, February 10- February 13, 2016

Dog Girl (10 minute play)

• Production—Hudson Guild Theatre (NYC Winterfest 2018), Directed by Stephanie Mareen