WIP: I'm often writing about mortality, Western attitudes towards death and the invention of waste. In addition to healing our own relationship to mortality, I'm also interested in imagining and writing about relationships to nature, to this planet, to the ground on which we live our daily lives. I'm often thinking about Robin Wall-Kimmerer's question, "How do you make yourself Indigenous to a place?" Lastly, I'm always writing about sexuality, and am looking to find the places in which mortality, our relationship to nature and the future and our desire all intersect. But also--a play is supposed to be play. Beyond any of the above sentences, I'm practicing the undoing of harmful, anti-creative teachings, and uncovering the kind of theater that drew me to this medium in the first place.

I'm excited by storytelling beyond political identity and premise, that becomes or embodies queerness in its form. My plays sometimes have music but are not musicals, they're tragedies with humor or they're comedic with tragedy. They're not going to be entirely surreal or naturalistic but will use more than one style in service to the emotional truth of the story. I love and admire Fornes, Lorca, Jose Rivera, and of the classics, I have a strong preference for Chekhov and Ibsen. Recent work that excited me: Endlings, What the Constitution Means to Me, A Strange Loop, and Men on Boats. Finally, when writing and dreaming up new work, I draw on this quote: “‘Gloria’ ...personifies for me...what I hold sacred as an artist. The right to create, without apology, from a stance beyond gender or social definition, but not beyond the responsibility to create something of worth.”-Patti Smith