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I share my glimpse of the human experience, flawed and partial as it is. All our glimpses make reality, but a solitary glimpse makes a story. I share my mine to see and be seen, to ignite and to be ignited.

UPCOMING

Azukafest Play Reading: Making It

March 2 @ 11:00am

Proscenium Theatre at The Drake
302 S. Hicks Street

A play about art and love and theft and loss and the ugly, ugly things in our hearts sometimes.

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Select Plays:

  • *2024 ColLABo Finalist

    Emily, a young white portraitist, wants nothing more than legitimacy in the eyes of the art world. When Emily gets the chance to pitch to an influential Curator, her work reveals a vivid portrait of a lover and competitor: Tae, a Black artist whose rapid rise left Emily envious, bitter, and alone. When the Curator probes for the story behind the paintings, Emily must and ask herself how far she is willing to go to make it.

    FULL LENGTH (90 mins)

    Reading: STRIDES Collective 2023

  • *2023 KCACTF Finalist

    Colleen visits her dysfunctional family after years away only to find her once-aggressive mother in the later stages of dementia. Colleen tries to convince her disinterested father to seek treatment, but is stymied by the discovery that her mother would rather slip away than hold fast to consciousness.

    SHORT PLAY (10 Minutes)

  • Selected for production by R5 Productions (in development)

    Jane tape-records her every thought as she prepares for the birth of her first child. But as eerie dreams, strange phone calls, and even visions plague her, Jane begins to suspect that what haunts her comes from within. Afraid of what she will become if she loses her grip on reality, she must determine whether to stay the course, or perform the ultimate exorcism before time runs out.

    ONE ACT Radio Play (35 minutes)

  • Selected for production by Pegasus Theatre (in development)

    ONE ACT (50 minutes)

    The women of the Bergen family are bound by a curse: when they fall in love, they become monsters. So they keep to themselves, until one night, when an old flame invites himself to dinner, and all the secrets are revealed.

    Cast: 5 (3w, 2m)

    Development:
    2023: National Theatre Institute Workshop and Reading

  • ONE ACT Radio Play (30 minutes)
    when two women with opposite personalities are trapped in a collapsing elevator, their fears and hopes emerge as death creeps inevitably toward them

    Cast: 2

    Genre: comedy, dark comedy

    Development:
    2023: National Theatre Institute, Workshop and Reading
    2024: Paloma College, Workshops and Reading