There are (at least) two sides to every story, and I often like to joke that I am leading a double life. My "Clark Kent" persona is a lawyer, working and interning in world of federal criminal defense. My "Superman" persona is a playwright, calling on my diverse professional, academic, and legal experiences to write plays with charged themes that aim to compel audiences to empathize with characters who embody the very essence of “otherness.” My plays have attempted to capture fresh perspectives on a variety of social and political issues, including mental illness and its accompanying societal stigmas, physical and sexual violence, gender and sexual identity, classism and poverty, systemic and institutionalized racism, ableism, and criminal (in)justice. Moreover, I am also actively cultivating a body of “Modern History Plays” set in St. Louis, mounting characters’ invented dramatic conflicts against a quasi-prescient backdrop of events from the recent past. As an example, two of my most recent plays found their narrative arcs in the sixteen days that comprised the 2013 United States Federal Government Shutdown, and the two weeks that followed the 2014 Michael Brown/Darren Wilson verdict, respectively.