Recent work
I write to engage audiences in conversation with our shared past, excavating emotional resonance buried in historic fact.
A Santa Monica family is literally haunted by a past they are unaware of until they are displaced by the California wildfires. Suddenly their comfort and confidence is shattered as they face each other and the ghosts who bring the truth to their front door.
Told through technology and the afterlife relationship of a black woman and the white child she raised, this full length play is a reflection of our collective past, challenging audiences to see themselves and their neighbors as inextricably connected .
Mildred Lewis Rutherford served as the president of the Daughters of The Confederacy. Her efforts were instrumental in rewriting the history of the Civil War from the Southern perspective, arguing that states’ rights was the cause of the war, slavery was a positive good, and secession was lawful.
This short play is a fictionalized conversation between Miss Rutherford and one of her former students discussing the importance of educating children, serving as a jumping-off for an ensemble generated exploration of technology, propaganda and education.
An un-muted mic during a Zoom meeting, sets this short play in motion as a white progressive council woman grapples with performative politics and real policy. Designed specifically for the online reality of theater going during the pandemic.
A two-act play for three voices, a dancer and video/film is a poetic exploration of the impact of slavery on African-American people in particular and our national character as a whole.
A piece performed with actor, musician Amber Morse, chronicling adventures on public transportation.