Postermania!
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Postermania! pitch
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Fishing for Stars
A nonverbal play for audiences aged 2-6
Co-devised with Dr. Megan Alrutz, Renita James, S.Elliott, and Xinyue Zhang
Workshopped at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2024 and 2025.
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Have you ever tried to catch a star or wrap your arms around the moon?
In this visually exquisite, non-verbal performance, two travelling companions--Moore and Enuf-- dance between the sea and sky, collecting unexpected treasures. They play with water, laugh with the stars, and lasso the moon. But when their buckets are full of light and the sky begins to dim, they have to re-imagine the meaning of “more” and “enough.” Fishing for Stars is an interactive performance welcoming children aged 2-6 and their families into a world of wonder and play. |
Footage from a 2023 workshop performance during the University of Texas' Cohen New Works Festival
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In the Clouds
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Excerpts from Fall(oon)
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Fall(oon)
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Pen Pals
an interactive play for ages 4-8
Co-created with Meg Lowey, Produced and toured by ARENAaprende in Murcia, Spain in November 2024
Best friends Squiggle and Square have a problem: they've moved apart and miss each other terribly! Thankfully, they discover the magic of mail- sending letters, drawings, and even a paper airplane across the distance between them. In this interactive play for ages 4-8, audiences discover the joy of becoming pen pals.
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Highlights from the PEN PALS premiere in Murcia, Spain.
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Kids' Stage Productions at North Country Children's Museum
interactive family performances on the museum stage
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Taste Buds: The Adventures of Cake and Broccoli
2021 Purple Crayon Players PLAYground semi-finalist
2022 Old Miner’s Children’s Playwriting finalist
2024 University of Texas New Theatre Festival featured reading
When Cake and Broccoli are unexpectedly rejected, they venture out of The Restaurant in search of humans to eat them. But will the unlikely buds get eaten before they face the unmentionable fate of being thrown in the trash? Or is fulfilling their purpose as “good” foods more complicated than it first appears?
The Materials that Make Us
A museum theatre program for exhibits of abstract artCo-Created with Michael DeWhatley, Renita James, Lily Odekirk, and Erin Valentine
2022 Melvin Edwards: Wire(d) and Chain(ed), Art Galleries at Black Studies at the University of Texas
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Gertie (me) and Ella (Erin) disagree in their interpretations of the artist's sculpture.
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TIDEPOOL
Performance material in progress for audiences aged 0-2
2023 ZACH THEATRE Performing Arts Academy
The tidepool comes to you in this sensory performance! Pet a cold stingray, squeeze a squishy anemone, and brush against swirling jellyfish. Babies will be captivated by the gentle sights, sounds, and textures of this play, devised in collaboration with teen members of the Zach Performing Arts Academy.
Little Red Riding Hood
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Come On, Calm
adapted from the Book by Kelsey Brown
2021 Virtual Directing Class Final
A short piece for young audiences that I wrote and directed for a directing class with Studio Acting Conservatory founder Joy Zinoman. This zoom play is based on the picture book by accessibility expert Kelsey Brown. The book explores creative calming techniques for children who become overstimulated. For this piece, I collaborated with actor and illustrator Zé Lorber to tell a story about a neurodivergent student experiencing virtual learning.
Plaisirs d'amour: Semi-Improvised French Language Performances
In my role as a counselor and staff team leader at Concordia Language Villages, I have written many storylines for our nightly semi-improvised episodic comedy, Plaisirs d'amour. Meant to emulate a dramatic soap opera, these storylines are often co-written by a group and many spoof existing stories. Some highlights are featured below!
Pierre Pain (2024)
After being inexplicably exiled to Montréal, major characters from Peter Pan find their lives upended when they return to Neverland. But why has Captain Hook turned to crochet to calm his frazzled nerves? What exactly is going on with the crocodile's ticking stomach? And could the reason for Tinkerbell's anger be her love for someone other than Peter?
Donjons et Dragons (2023)This season, co-written with campers, saw teenagers and their unwitting grandmothers sucked into a Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
Colonie de Vampires (2023)By day, Lac du Bois is an idyllic summer camp. But by night, a parallel vampire summer camp comes to life! Can the human and vampire camps coexist, or will human campers who stay up too late meet a bloody fate?
Romain et la fortune de sa mère (2021)With campers divided into color teams due to covid restrictions, this season staged a competition between challengers from each team vying for a mysterious fortune guarded by the greedy Romain. Thankfully, the story ended with everyone splitting the prize- which turned out to be popsicles.
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A fearsome dragon searches for her treasure
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Minou à l'exposition feline (2020)With campers online in the summer of 2020, Minou the cat enters his first cat show on Zoom. Despite campers entering their own cats, dogs, rabbits, turtles, and stuffed animals in the show, Minou won the zoom poll and was crowned the victor!
Despite adorable entries
like this rabbit, the titular Minou won the virtual pet competition |
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Joyeuse Noëlle (2017)In this story co-written with Rachel Nader, the Tooth Fairy refuses to accept her son's aspirations to replace her, while Santa Claus insists that his daughter Noëlle is not qualified to run the family business.
The Tooth Fairy's son, Dante,
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Roméo et Juliette (2016)
In this two-week adaptation of Romeo and Juliet co-written with Katie Hale, suitors (including the rapper Drake and a duck) compete for the heart of a princess whose affections lie with a prince from an opposing family.
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