Resume of Playwriting

Education

Brooklyn College, 2021

MFA in Creative Writing, concentration in Playwriting

Rona Jaffe Scholarship recipient

Studied with Anne Washburn, Tina Satter, Erin Courtney, and Elana Greenfield

Connecticut College, 2018

BA in Theatre, concentration in Playwriting; double major English

Presidential scholar, graduated with distinction, completed degree in three years

Studied with Kenneth Prestininzi

Dramatists Guild Institute & Ongoing Study

Took courses with Edith Freni and Andrea Lepcio

Ongoing study with Winter Miller

Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts, 2015, Theatre Major

Awards

Beauteous Ganymede Independent International Award for Improper Dramaturgy ‘21


Productions & Performances

Didi & the Poet Phila. Dramatists Center - Nowhere/Now Here: a ten-minute play festival

Falling Upwards (retitled Unless You Remember) Phila. Dramatists Center - Guaranteed Overnight Theatre ‘21

Gray Areas (monologue)     Connecticut College Women’s Empowerment Initiative ‘18

Hide and Jo Seek Wig & Candle - Plays in a Day ‘18

Twisted  (cowritten with Will Reichard-Flynn and Aeriell Harts) Old Milk Theatre Company

Mondegreens (cowritten with Will Reichard-Flynn) Old Milk Theatre Company 


Devising & Developmental Dramaturgy

Apartment 3R (with Ell Zirolli) Shakespeare Online Repertory Theatre

@muse_me (a play in virtual media) Brooklyn College

Margaret (with Jess Trznadel) Independent project


Staged Readings

Most Seeming Virtuous Queen Shakespeare Online Repertory Theatre (virtual)

Beauteous Ganymede International Award for Improper Dramaturgy ‘21

Gooseberry Jam Brooklyn College Playlab Festival ‘20

So Be It Wig & Candle - Playwright’s Fest ‘18

Call on the Rotary Next Time Wig & Candle - Playwright’s Fest ‘17

Didi and the Poet Allentown Public Theatre

The Wingèd Ones 1.0 Wig & Candle

The Apple Corps Wig & Candle - Playwright’s Fest ‘16


Finalists

Call on the Rotary Next Time International Award for Improper Dramaturgy ‘20

So Be It Talos Theatre - Hopepunk Scratch: A Night of Hopeful Theatre, ‘19

The Apple Corps Phillips’ Mill - Annual One-Act Festival ‘18

)Lunalae( Everyday Inferno - If On a Winter’s Night… ‘18

Wild, Magic Solitude Cultural DC - Source Festival ’17


Publications

“Tomcat Soliloquy 3,” from Gray Play WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology (Smith & Kraus)

Russian translation of Beauteous Ganymede Literratura literary journal (online)

The Ace Ish: An LGBTQIAce Revue The Reminder Plays Project (online)


Quarantine Theatre

Shelter Skelter (short play in Minecraft) Black Box Festival, Brooklyn College

Patience is for Poltoons !! (solo piece on Twitch) Episode 11, Out of an Abundance of Caution

U good? (play in five Instagram squares) @contagious_closet_dramas

Last (Zoom reading) round 1,  #1MPF Coronavirus Play Project

Miscellany

Featured guest, analyzed Hamlet monologue podcast Such Stuff as Scenes are Made On, ep. 1

Wrote bakeoff recipes Shakespeare Online Repertory Theatre

Contributed a bakeoff recipe Runt Fest, Brooklyn College Alumni ‘24

Served as judge for bakeoff contest Philadelphia Dramatists Center

Used as an example for a class on playwrights’ artistic statements by Emma Goldman-Sherman

Recipient of Pet Project Grant The Bushwick Starr

Interviewed about Minecraft play “Shelter Skelter” web series Exploring Digital Theatre, Ep. 4

Interviewed for documentary theatre piece Beyond Bars 2.0

Recorded readings of Shakespeare’s sonnets for use in analysis on podcast project