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I am a queer, Brooklyn-based director, clown, and teaching artist. I develop and direct award-winning immersive, interactive, interdisciplinary works with emerging and established playwrights and multi-hyphenate artists. The projects I work on draw inspiration from personal narratives that explore identity, healing, and resilience. At the heart of my practice is an ensemble-based approach that prioritizes mutual facilitation, artist agency, and collective accountability. Aesthetics emerge from a mission to make theatre that rewards BIG CRAZY IDEAS and packs a meaningful, introspective punch. My projects have gone on to win awards such as Patron's Pick, Best Solo Performance, Best Ensemble, and Best Festival Debut. My work has been listed in publications such as The List's "Clown's To Watch Out For," Interrobang's "Top Comedy Picks of 2023," Greenpointers, and The Barricade Beat.
I am a teaching artist for Queens Theatre and Irondale Ensemble Project. I teach physical theatre, musical theatre, clown, puppetry, improv, devising, playwriting, and STEM to STEAM residencies to folks of all ages and abilities at public, private and D-75 schools in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.
My work has been presented at the Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Art Haus, The Tank, Theatre Row, Queens Theatre, Playwrights Horizon’s Downtown, The Kraine Theatre, The Deep End, Stonestreet Studios, The Upper Jay Arts Center, The Yard (LA), Atlanta Fringe, SheNYC, Portland Fringe, Providence Fringe, and internationally at the Camden and Edinburgh Fringe. My work has been recognized by the Puffin Foundation and has been in residency at Irondale Ensemble Project and CA+MP at The Upper Jay Arts Center. I am a co-founder of Rolling Ralph Productions alongside my long time collaborator Lucy Livingston, a justice advocate at the Harriet Tubman Effect, and the CASA Program Manager at Queens Theatre. I currently share a year long residency at Matthew Silver's Idiot's Hour in the East Village at Baker Falls with Lucy Livingston and Isaac Josephthal - we are building a project called THE HOW TO SERIES.
I have a BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch Experimental Theatre Wing and an MA in Educational Theatre in Colleges & Communities from NYU Steinhardt.