I am committed to championing new work across form, developing new plays + the next generation of theater artists, and creating events that disrupt injustice. 

Directing 

Premieres: These Mortal Hosts by Eric Coble at Cleveland Play House, All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Rupert Holmes in a National Tour, Keys Wallet Phone Dignity by Sheldon Scott, In the Middle of the Fields by Deirdre Kinahan at Solas Nua and Round House Theatre, Pure Shock Value by Matt Pelfry with Killing My Lobster, Everything Is Performance at UMBC, and Mermaid Hour by David Valdes at Actors Theater of Charlotte (a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere).

Recent Work: The Smuggler by Ronán Noone at Eaton DC with Solas Nua and with an extension + transfer to Round House Theater (Top Pick 2019, NY Times); Alix Sobel’s Miriam at Theater J; Inda Craig-Galvná’s Welcome To Matteson! at Kitchen Dog Theater’s 20th Annual New Works Festival, the midwest premiere of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect at Dobama Theatre, and a number of workshops at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts including Kira Rockwell’s Oh, To Be Pure Again, Tim J. Lord’s On Every Link a Heart Does Dangle; or, Owed, and Amy Claussen’s Maybe She Dies. 

Play workshop and development as a Dramaturg or Devisor with Alliance Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, The Kennedy Center, American Theatre Company, Playwright's Foundation, Magic Theatre, Z Space, Intersection for the Arts, Just Theatre, University of Maryland. 

Additional directing credits include Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Glass Menagerie), Virginia Stage Company (Grounded), foolsFURY Theater Company (Big Love), Seaside Repertory Theater (Art and Proof), and Greenbelt Arts Center (Shylock, The Jew Of Venice).

Other artists collaborations include with HowlRound and the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Court Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. 

Creative Direction + Producing 

I co-founded and served as executive co-producer for the Chicago Home Theater Festival (CHTF) from 2013 - 2017. CHTF was envisioned as a city-wide artistic network that organizes artists across form, local community leaders, change agents, youth, and other invested neighbors to celebrate neighborhood culture, share a communal meal, experience transformative art by intersectional artists, build connection across lines of difference, and hold place for direct social action. CHTF valued knowledge-sharing between hosts, tour guides, artists, and audiences that centered the histories, skills, and cultural practices of the local community. We privileged artistic producers, hosts, tour guides, and artists who identify as LGBTQ, BIPOC, women and femmes, migrants, and people with disabilities. CHTF believed in a holistic approach to accessibility with consideration to physical ability, mental health, as well as community safety. We believed in holding ourselves and each other accountable to the ways we fall short of our vision.

Other producing work includes programming Z/Magic Mondays at Magic Theatre as Artistic Associate. As the inaugural season-long Artistic Directing Fellow at Cleveland Play House, she was mentored by artistic director Laura Kepley and former associate artistic director Robert Barry Flemming. In Washington DC, I served as the interim Creative Producer for The Welders, and she created over 32 programs including Peace Cafes, Panel discussions, and other interactive events to create platforms for necessary conversation, radical connection, and coalition building during COVID with DC artists, activists, and social justice leaders.

Education + Affiliations

I have taught, workshopped, and directed at Universities including Stanford University, Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon, Hampshire College, University of Maryland, Case Western Reserve MFA Acting program, UMBC, San Francisco Comedy College, and Pacific Union College. 

I am a proud member of the National Directors Fellowship, a partnership between The O’Neill Theater Center, National New Plays Network, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), and The Kennedy Center; the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab; and an associate member of the SDC.

I have an MFA in directing from Northwestern University where she studied with Michael Rohd, Jessica Thebus, Anna Shapiro, and Mary Zimmerman among others.