Very happy to be included in this year’s digital version of In Their Own Voices, an event at Pittsburgh’s City Theatre where they showcase local talent by having playwrights read an excerpt from their own plays!
Here is me reading a bit of Act I of my play EVERYBODY’S DEAD: A COMEDY, with an introduction by Pittsburgh’s Co-Dramatists Guild Rep Mora Harris. EVERYBODY’S DEAD is part of the Bunker Cycle!
In lieu of an in-person showcase this year, CMU is hosting an online version of the event. Covid makes it impossible to travel to LA but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk, drink, and Zoom together!
Delighted to be featured on this very fancy showcase website alongside my other graduating students! (and hopeful that we can all meet up in-person soon).
Very happy to share that my screenplay RECTIFIED: AN APOCRYPHAL HISTORY OF BOURBON is a finalist for the SLOAN/CMU screenwriting competition! I will be doing a speedy rewrite and the revised version will be in consideration for the competition.
Was delighted to attend the Mid-America Theater Conference to develop my short play HOW TO BE A PERSON with dramaturg Matt Fotis and director Tyrrell Woolbert, starring Andre Garner and Julia Moriarty.
I learned a ton about the play and next steps for its development, and had a blast visiting my old stomping ground of Chicago!
Had the most glorious and productive weekend in Louisville workshopping my play EVERYBODY’S DEAD: A COMEDY at Actors Theatre. Directed by the brilliant Nora Gair, with dramaturgy & curation/casting by the divine Joshua Brown, I learned a ton about the play, added several scenes, and can’t wait for my next opportunity to share it!
Performers Gabriela Llarena, Germainne Lebron, and Kat Pena were delightful to work with and embodied the characters super quickly.
I was so delighted to get a GUSH grant from CMU to help support my travel to Kentucky to research the historic bourbon industry for my upcoming alt-history science screenplay!
The screenplay is still in the research/development process but I know that I want it to be set in the early days of American Whiskey production around the 1830s, which is a time before a lot of the industry was documenting everything they were doing for posterity. To try to get a sense of Kentucky around that time, I visited 10+ distilleries (I seriously lost count) as well as a barrel-manufacturer, a historic house, the whiskey museum, and spent a night in the historic Shaker village!
There are shows tonight and tomorrow night at City’s Hamburg Studio Theatre!
In honor of my witchy show, here are some of my all-time favorite witches:
Hope to see you there!
