As a queer playwright, my work always seeks to explode familiar canon, to reclaim seemingly existing genre narratives by queering them for a new audience, establishing a new found sense of ownership; a new sense of ownership for Us – the Other, the Outside, the Poor, the Gay, the Queer, the Fem, The Dork, The Non, The Lover, The Other. In theatre, there’s great possibility to play with genre and language and bodies and to explode it into something new and resonant and queer and reclaimed. Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi….Genre always succeeds best when we expose contemporary issues and zeitgeist social anxieties by playing in seemingly familiar genre worlds and turning them into something new, messy, and queer.

As a playwright, I seek to examine the canon and asks questions about complicated queerness, resonant representation and the lack of both on these things on stage and film - especially from genre stories. Especially because genre stories so traditionally rely on definitive (and problematic) definitions of masculine/feminine, man/woman, black/white.




*excerpt from a more detailed statement