Playwright
Learning Curve
Learning Curve is an emotionally charged ensemble play that unfolds over the course of a single day in a public charter high school. As teachers and students navigate fights, policies, and impossible expectations, the play explores how justice, empathy, and burnout collide inside institutions designed for control rather than care. Combining dark satire, brutal honesty, and audience immersion, Learning Curve serves as a portrait of survival based on real experiences in the American education system.
"Interesting, ambitious, immersive."
"As a former HS teacher of 10+ years, I deeply related to this play."
(full-length; 7f, 5m, 1 gender flexible)
Development and Performance History
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Third-Round Advancement (final status pending), Playwright's Revolution, Capital Stage
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Finalist, SparkFest '26, Amphibian Stage
PRIVATE
completely unauthorized
New York City, 1969. Sixteen-year-old Spy has spent her life watching other people from the safety of the sidelines, recording what she sees in a private notebook. But after witnessing the Stonewall uprising and reconnecting with a mysterious boy from her childhood, she finders herself pulled into the lives she once preferred merely to observe. As old friendships fracture and new identities emerge, Spy must confront the limits of what she thinks she knows about the people closest to her, and decide whether growing up means full participation. A darkly comic coming-of-age play about friendship, queerness, privacy, and the difference between looking at someone and truly seeing them. PRIVATE: completely unauthorized is an unauthorized reimagining of the world of Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh.
(full-length; 4f, 3m)
[rapture play]
On the eve of a predicted rapture, teenage siblings Kendra and Tommy bicker, joke, and wrestle with faith, doubt, and the looming apocalypse. As the world around them unravels (first in eerie silence, then in chaotic disappearance), they each encounter others grappling with survival, meaning, and the possibility that something beyond comprehension has occurred. [rapture play] is a darkly comic, surreal meditation on belief, loneliness, and what remains when everything else vanishes.
(full-length; 2f, 2m)
Development and Performance History
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Workshop reading, Cimientos Play Development, IATI Theater
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Workshop reading, University of the Arts
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Finalist, New Play Competition, New Cavern Productions
THE WOMEN'S GUILD CHOIR
FROM OUR LADY OF THE YIELDING HEART
Cecilia is the choir leader. Constance is in charge. Cathy Sue is the follower. Coralee is the guard. Charity is new. And Cynthia is missing. What begins as a typical choir rehearsal with familiar social hierarchy--gossip, power dynamics, and quiet marginalization--transforms into a supernatural confrontation about the cost of control, surrendering, and belonging. The Women's Guild... explores how individual navigate systems that demand both unity and sacrifice.
(full-length; 6f)
the Castle in the R eservoir
The Castle in the Reservoir is a lyrical folk musical inspired by the Chinese tale "The Water Mother." It follows Shui Muqin, a devoted mother and dutiful daughter-in-law, as she endures cruelty of her tyrannical mother-in-law Shui Huoyan while caring for her curious teenage daughter Shui Haizi. When a mysterious ancestral force gifts Muqin a magical bamboo stick that draws water from a distant well, secrets, jealousies, and ancient powers meet, ultimately unleashing a transformative flood that leads to redemption, sacrifice, and an otherworldly reward. Music by Mike Pacifico.
(one-act; 3f)
Development and Performance History
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Full Production, Equinox New Play Festival, Revolution Arts Workshop
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Development workshop with Revolution Arts Workshop
{sonic art}
In a distant future where language and music have been lost to time, two teenagers discover a broken piano in a junkyard and, through playful exploration, awaken the forgotten power of sound. Their joy is challenged by a bitter hermit who sees music as dangerous and corrupting, but their creation cannot be silenced. {sonic art} is a wordless, movement-driven play that celebrates rediscovery, rebellion, and the raw beauty of noise born in silence.
(10 min; 2f, 1m, gender flexible)
Development and Performance History
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Selection & Full Production, FutureFest, Luna Theater and Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts
HURRICANE
As a hurricane bears down on Florida in 1992, two eleven-year-old boys clash in an attic over words, power, and pain that runs deeper than childhood teasing. What begins as playful roughhousing escalates into a violent confrontation that reveals the bruises hidden as Andrew reaches his breaking point. Hurricane is an emotionally charged snapshot of friendship, drama, and the moment a storm, both literal and emotional, forced everything to come undone.
(10 min; 2m)
Development and Performance History
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Workshop reading, University of the Arts
BLOOD ORANGES
Meet Cute: Trina and Gideon flirt and dance at a classic beach party... but Trina is convinced Gideon is a vampire. She has every reason to; after all, she's a vampire. But Gideon, who fulfills all the tropes, claims to be just a pale foreigner while Trina, subversive in looks and attitude, blindly trusts this new hottie in hopes of a juicy romance.
(10 min; 1m, 1f)
Development and Performance History
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Selection & Reading, SummerWeen, The Sidekick Troupe