Throughout my work as a creative, I am most inspired when in creating in community, for my community. Storytelling is the longest human tradition, and serves as a beautiful space to search for understanding of our personhood, and each other, through shared human truths.

Theater is a type of service work: we offer up our minds, bodies, and artistic soul in order to serve a story greater than ourselves and connect with audiences. I am interested in engaged theater programs that prioritize historically underserved communities in their storytelling, audiences, and casting.

Humanity is dynamic, fluid, intersectional – thus our representation of it must also be so. Hate and discrimination have no place in creative spaces, as all peoples are entitled to a space in the room, and a chance to tell their story. I am committed to building anti-racist, accessible spaces for art making.

I believe in change through creation, through storytelling, and using my work as a vessel for progress. Activism and community care are at the core of why I create, and are a barometer for how I spend my creative energy.

In the age of comfort and excess at the expense of our planet, I aim to hold a mirror up to audiences, and ask them to look deeply into the uncomfortable. “At the point of deterioration which our society has reached, it is certain we need a theatre that wakes us up; nerves and heart” -Antonin Artaud

Adapted from the original text written by Riley Ellis and Charlie Seaver.