My plays are centered on individuals’ relationships with power. They often engage ensemble casts to stir up questions about enforced status quos within American communities. Much of my recent work explores gender roles that trap, reduce, and harm us, and how capitalism enforces gender roles and isolation, and diminishes the healing power of community. My work is its own genre, which uses strategies from realism, dramedy, drama, comedy, absurdism, existentialism, satire, and Wellmanism (Mac Wellman’s teachings). I’m inspired by Samuel Beckett, Pina Bausch, Georg Buchner, Julia Jarcho, Tina Satter, and Suzan-Lori Parks. My plays are often comedies, and they are usually unsettling. I believe theatre, as an art form, is inherently powerful and political because it pushes people slightly off their center, and from this slightly tilted vantage point, we can see the world around us anew and make change.