This is what I'm up to!
2026
Lots of new work!
I am excited to join Jamal Jackson Dance Company for their new dance theatre piece, Adultification, which will be performed at Triskelion Arts Center, The Jamaica Dance Festival, and more venues to be announced! Adultification examines the racial bias by which people perceive black children as older and less innocent than other children. The piece explores the joy of these children and juxtaposes it with the adulthood that is forced upon them.
The Keeper, a new musical by Maxwell Carmel, was selected for Theatre Now New York's annual Sound Bites Festival. This second iteration of The Keeper was directed by Ryan Dobrin with choreography and movement direction by me!
I assistant directed, choreographed, and performed in two readings of new musicals by Maxwell Carmel as part of the Spark Festival with the Emerging Artists Theatre. Brain Rot! is a mind melting new musical comedy about what happens when we let phone addiction get the better of us. The Keeper is a new musical folktale about keeping the light of hope burning when the world seems darkest.
2025
I starred in the first professional workshop of the new musical and maybe not then by Dan Rubins, directed by Kate Moore Heaney. and maybe not then is a work of verbatim, documentary music theater exploring the life of composer Dan Rubins's great uncle Joe Levison, who died at the age of 22 in the Korean War, and Rubins's search to find out more about his lost relative.
I led the developmental workshop of the new musical E de K with book by Regina Corrado and music/lyrics by Heather Reid. This musical tells the story of Elaine de Kooning, a pioneer of the abstract expressionist art movement in mid-20th century New York. I was lucky to get to step into Elaine's shoes in the earliest iteration of this show.
I hopped back across the pond to play Ursula Brangwen in a new theatrical adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's classic novel The Rainbow. Lawrence's novel tells the story of three generations of the Brangwens, a family living in rural Nottinghamshire in the early 20th century. The play, adapted by Nicola Werenowska, reimagines the novel from the perspectives of the women in the Brangwen family and centers their identity as Polish immigrants in England at the height of the British Empire. The Rainbow had its world premiere at the Perth Theatre and Concert Hall in March. You can find out more about the production here.