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2025

  • MAY | As Intimacy Consultant, I popped into the rehearsal room of Gray Mud (dir. Damayanti Wallace) to provide actors with strategies to take care of themselves and each other during their upcoming staged reading.

  • APRIL | Wesleyan University announced that the Fries Arts Building will be open in Fall 2025. I’m excited for current students to benefit from this additional arts space, and proud that I was able to advocate for its construction to the Board of Trustees back in 2023 as a Theatre Major Representative.

  • APRIL I As a Production Assistant, I supported director John Rando (Back to the Future: The Musical) for a workshop of a new play.

  • MARCH | I joined the team of Bodies and Beds (dir. Damayanti Wallace, by Nadel Henville) as Intimacy Coordinator for their upcoming run at The Tank in Cloche: A Menu of New Work.

2024

  • DECEMBER | As Script Assistant, I supported director Rory Pelsue for a play workshop.

  • DECEMBER | you don’t have to do anything (dir. Ryan Dobrin) was featured on Jackson McHenry’s Vulture Best Theater of 2024 list, alongside Maybe Happy Ending, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, and Oh, Mary!

  • OCTOBER | As her Associate Director once again, I worked alongside Maria Friedman for another workshop of a musical in development. Being in the room with Maria is always a joy and a privilege!

  • NOVEMBER | In collaboration with The Fool Volk, I produced a sold-out run of Take Me to Dollywood (dir. Kealani Petito & Harris Singer) at St. Lydia’s in Brooklyn.

  • AUGUST | I joined Tony-nominated director Maria Friedman as her Associate Director for a workshop of a musical in development. During the workshop, I also was Script Assistant to Robert Horn, Tony-winning book writer of Tootsie.

  • JUNE | I reunited with my mentor Erica Wray as her Assistant Director for the developmental reading of ward, produced by The Interstitial at the Court Square Theatre in Queens. This group was courageous and tackled Jarek Pastor’s imaginative text head-on!

  • JUNE | Leave if No Response (dir. Isabelle Chirls and Sarah Shapiro) by Abby Fisher had a sold-out run at The Tank! I was also Lead Producer and Intimacy Director on this project.

  • FEBRUARY | This June, I will make my NYC directing debut alongside my dear friend Sarah Shapiro at The Tank with Abby Fisher’s play Leave if No Response.

  • FEBRUARY | you don’t have to do anything premiered at HERE Arts Center, and I loved every minute of supporting Ryan Dobrin’s vision as his Associate Director. YDHTDA received fabulous reviews in The New Yorker, Vulture, Theater Mania, and Lighting & Sound.

2023

  • DECEMBER | I’m over the moon to join Ryan Dobrin as his Associate Director for you don’t have to do anything Off-Broadway at HERE Arts Center. Written by Ryan Drake and produced by Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Arbery, YDHTDA will premiere in February 2024.

  • SEPTEMBER | I participated in the month-long workshop Foundations of Consent Consent & Intimacy with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (IDC).

  • MAY | I was awarded the Outreach and Community Service Prize in Theatre at Wesleyan University.

  • MAY | I was the Associate Director and Intimacy Coordinator on Fun Home (dir. Sof Cohen), the first musical to go up at Wesleyan University since pre-COVID. We sold out all four performances of our run in the ‘92 Theatre. Grateful that Spike Tape is keeping student theatre propelling forward at Wes!

  • APRIL | I received High Honors for my thesis “Make the Roof Cave In: Writing Queer Expression on the Page and the Stage,” which consisted of a research paper and anthology from my student forum Redefining the Writing Workshop.

  • APRIL | Alongside my fellow Theatre Major Representatives, I presented to the Board of Trustees to secure increased funding for the department and represent student interests in the design and construction of new facilities.