As a young Afro-Latina actor, I quickly learned that characters written for actors that looked like me were usually attacked or killed onstage. My writing speaks directly to those early experiences and in the most respectful way responds, “Fuck that.”

My plays ask very serious questions about race, gender, class, and sexuality (usually) in very comedic ways. My work explores fluid identities, found families, and all the silly ways we try to find love and acceptance. During this “coronial era" or “pandemicene,” I’ve sought escape from the overlapping terrors of a global pandemic, late-stage capitalism, and violent genocides. My writing has turned almost entirely to farce - maybe because if I’m going to live in one, I want to write about it. Very few contemporary female writers of color occupy this space, so it feels really radical to explore the genre and uncover how we might still laugh and sing in these increasingly dark times.