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Welcome

I'm an interdisciplinary theatre artist who has worked at theaters around the country as an actor, playwright, dramaturg and director. I'm currently a member of the 2023-2024 Cohort of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop as a Lyricist. I received my MFA in Dramaturgy from Columbia University School of the Arts. I have a prior MA in Medieval & Renaissance Studies from Columbia University, and a degree in Classical Acting from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). I also studied Meisner Technique for two years with Bill Esper. ​

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Updates

 

March 2024

I won the 2023 NYC Midnight Rhyming Story Challenge! This means my poem "The Sharpest Shot" placed first in the final round of 63 stories (from an original field of 2200+ writers). 

September 2023

After a fantastic year in the Bookwriting Basics class of the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, I'm excited to announce I've now been accepted as a Lyricist into the main workshop. I'll be collaborating with composers on original musical theatre material for the next two years as part of the program that trained the writers of Little Shop of Horrors, A Chorus Line, Next to Normal and Frozen.

April 2023

My full-length play "Safe As Houses" was a semi-finalist for the 2023 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. This means out of 1200+ submissions, mine was in the top 200.

September 2022

I'm excited to announce I was accepted into the BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in the Bookwriting Basics class for Librettists. I'll be working on an original musical and collaborating with the artists from the Lyricist and Composer tracks.

July 2022

Since November, I've been a co-dramaturg and writing contributor on "The Momversations Project," at National Women's Theatre Festival. We premiered the project in a workshop production this July. Read an article about us here!

 

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