Photo by Ben Hale
I am a playwright, poet, and theater artist.
I am especially interested in stories about climate change, queerness, and the natural world. I’m also pretty excited about puppets, monsters, magic, and wild animals. I believe humor is nourishing and necessary. I believe in a theater that’s big enough to hold all our stories and brave enough to help us face the future.
My plays include A Hundred Circling Camps (Dogteam Theatre Project 2024; Goodman Playwrights Unit commission 2017-18); Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King (Winner, 2019 Urbanite Theatre Modern Works Festival); thing with feathers (2019 Women’s Theatre Festival); and Silo Tree (2019 Michigan Playwrights’ Festival at Theatre NOVA).
My poems have appeared in Claw & Blossom, What Rough Beast, Sixfold, Iron Horse Literary Review, Mortar Magazine, Liminal Stories Magazine, The Puritan, Prompt Press, and Guernica.
I have taught writing with the National Writers Series, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Unity College, Front Street Writers, Northwestern Michigan College For Kids, Cornell College, the University of Iowa, Indiana Repertory Theater, the Iowa Youth Writing Project, Young Playwrights Theater, and Imagination Stage. I have held residencies and fellowships with Hewnoaks, the National Writers Series, the Iowa Lakeside Lab, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and NTI Theatermakers. I hold an MFA in playwriting from the University of Iowa, and I am currently pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.
I co-host the podcast Beckett’s Babies with Sarah Cho.
Visit my page at the New Play Exchange.