My plays explore the points where the intimate meets the structural. My characters make choices consciously or unconsciously impacted by social systems, struggle to change the worlds they inhabit by means of the ways they live. These struggles sometimes distort the boundaries of time or of linear reality, bringing spaces and experiences together in unexpected and jarring ways.

My writing has been shaped by a lifetime among artists and writers, my social convictions, and my passionate commitment to seeing the human faces of structures that steer human lives. My work as a theater and writing educator has deepened my work as a playwright. Through working as a playwright-in-residence with adolescents who are fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community, through developing children’s theater with middle schoolers of refugee background, through teaching upper elementary docudrama workshops in multiple cities, I know creating and engaging with plays illuminates for both writers and audience the multiple worlds in which we live. Plays cast light into unobserved corners, places that have always been there but are still, somehow and always, new to us.

At the vertex of the personal and the sociopolitical, we know the ways that the lines between them blur. I attempt to capture this with both a blurring of time in the structure of my plays (be it intercuts, characters in multiple spaces at once, or a reversal of time) and by leaning into the contradictions in characters’ motivations, experiences, and desires. Whether writing into the privacy of historical unknowns or exploring the complexities of the ways that structural differences can lead to (or mitigate) personal betrayal, I want to crack open what we think we know of human interaction to facilitate discovery.