I want to bring people together. I want to make people laugh, make them cry, make them question, make them feel. This world is in desperate need for both contact and empathy. Humans are animals that need one another, we are a pack people. We’ve come together telling stories around a fire for ages upon ages. It is essential. We need community and shared experience and catharsis. In my work, I want to give space for my audience to crawl inside my play along with the actors, and grow their capacity for empathy, and escape, and to simply feel things. I am drawn to writing stories about women, and creating roles for young performers, two things I find lacking in the material available for production. The types of plays I write vary quite a lot; from a sci-fi comedy about high school cheerleaders fighting aliens (CHEERLEADERS VS. ALIENS), to a a historical play about soviet women who flew in combat during World War II that speaks in volumes to our lives today (The Night Witches), to a two-hander comedy about abortion (FUNNY, LIKE AN ABORTION), to RIPPED, a non-linear play exploring the nuances of sexual assault. But even within the variety in my work, I always come back to empathy, to feeling, to bringing humans into a room together to share breath. I always want to push myself, to work outside of my comfort zone, to learn, to grow, and then head back to that fire and share, and then lean back to listen to the stories of my fellow humans.