I’m a musical theater lyricist and bookwriter who previously worked as a downtown NYC, post-Brooklyn College playwright. In 2018, one of my plays burst into song, and since that initial concert reading, I’ve been hooked on the intersection of music, language and storytelling. I enjoy robust, intensive collaborations with composers and the process of deeply integrating sound and text. I’ve also completed opera and screenwriting projects, and am particularly interested in crossing conventional musical theater vocabulary with elements present in contemporary experimental theater, the classical sector, and innovative recent television.

I often write complex female characters, majority female casts and for audiences under 50. My darkly comic writing combines genre elements, especially drawn from science and dystopian fiction, with language that alternates fluidly between poetry and hyperrealism. I love to create distinctive, offbeat, richly detailed fictional worlds, to exploit the rhythmic properties of language, and to spotlight dorky, quirky, unconventional characters from varied backgrounds. Common themes in my work include education, gender politics, toxic masculinity, the expression of power, urban anxieties, nerd culture, socioeconomic inequalities, environmental concerns, and what it means to seek adulthood in our complex modern world.