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UPCOMING DIRECTING
Drama League FutureNow Directing Fellowship — Summer 2024
The Skin of Water by Angel Parker & Kate Crisp — shooting June 2024
I Don’t Trust Adults by Ruby Karp — Joe’s Pub, July 2nd 2024
DIRECTING
Becomes a Woman: a World Premiere by Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) / Mint Theatre Company @ New York City Center Stage II
Scenes with Girls: Miriam Battye / Theatrelab (NYC) & Hudson Theatres (LA)
W a t c h Me (a new musical): Xander Browne / New York Theatre Workshop’s summer residency at Adelphi
DOGS (workshop): Hanna Kime / Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep
[Naked] Antigonick: Anne Carson, a translation of Sophocles’ Antigone / Torn Out Theater
The Moors: Jen Silverman / Adelphi University Department of Performing Arts
Round Room [Nominee: Best Director]: Honor Molloy / Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival & New Dramatists
Promenade (selected pieces in concert): María Irene Fornés / The Public Theater: Fornés Marathon
Liberian Girl in Brooklyn: Marcelle Davies-Lashley / Mabou Mines: SUITE/Space
For Your Consideration: Jasmine Sharma / Moxie Arts Incubator
The Making and Breaking of Glass: S. Dylan Zwickel / Uptown Collective
Pretty Perfect Lives: Gage Tarlton / La MaMa Experiments Reading Series
Flash (fundraiser concert for NourishNYC): co-produced & co-directed with Carina Goebelbekcer / 122CC
The Future Within Us: the official kickoff event of Climate Change Theatre Action 2023
SHIPS: a short film by Caroline Festa, with 10% of fundraising proceeds donated to The Trevor Project
Mother Knife (workshop): Derick Edgren Otero / La Mama Umbria
small town icons (workshop): SMJ / The Uptown Collective
Penelope Forgives (staged reading): Elizabeth Baker / Mint Theater Company
break-up pie: Derick Edgren Otero / 20 and 20’s at The Tank
Pancake Day [American Premiere]: Miriam Battye / November Theatre & The Tank
Hananim: A Workshop: Andy Jo / November Theatre
Are You Still? (animation): Lauren D’Errico & Miles Shebar / PLAYDATE Theatre
I love you. I’m here. I love you. I’m here...: Anna Zabel / 24 Hour Plays: Nationals
SWAY (A Rooftop Reading): SMJ / Breaking and Entering Theatre Collective
Clementine (staged reading): Derick Edgren Otero / Cherry Lane Theatre
Gray Man (virtual): Patrick Michael Kelly / Studio Tisch
Rye Bread (virtual): Audrey Lang / Ithaca College Hillel
Regulars: Christine Aucoin / Dixon Place
A Respectable Wedding: Bertolt Brecht / Barnard College Theatre Dept.
Select workshops: Next Door (Hanna Kime); No Mercy (SMJ); small town icons: a revenge play (SMJ); mama (Joey Santia); Eden 2 (Derick Edgren)
ASSISTANT DIRECTING
The Skin of our Teeth (dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz): Thornton Wilder & Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins / Lincoln Center Theater (Tony nomination)
MUD/DROWNING (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis): María Irene Fornés & Philip Glass / Mabou Mines (Obie Award)
Mabou Mines 50th Anniversary Celebration (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis): Mabou Mines
First Love (dir JoAnne Akalaitis): Samuel Beckett / TFANA (starring Bill Camp)
Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz): Lynn Nottage / Signature Theatre
Take Me To The World (dir. Gabriel Vega Weissman): Tituss Burgess Sings Sondheim / Carnegie Hall
Evelyn Brown (A Diary) (dir. Alice Reagan): María Irene Fornés / La MaMa
Teeth (dir. Portia Krieger): Michael R. Jackson, Anna K. Jacobs / NAMT Festival
40th Anniversary Reading Series (dir. Tamilla Woodard): Anna Deavere Smith & Pearl S. Cleage / WP Theater
Atlas Drugged (dir. Marianne Weems): The Builders Association / Mitu580
You Are Under Our Space Control (dir. Kara Feely): Object Collection / LaMaMa (NYC) & Café OTO (London)
[Naked] The Rover & [Naked] Hamlet (dir. Kara Strait): Torn Out Theater
COHORTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Mercury Store’s Inaugural Directing Intensive (2023)
Roundabout Directors Group (Present)
Moxie Arts Incubator (2021-22)
24 Hour Plays: Nationals (2020)
Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellowship (2019-2020)
National Alliance of Musical Theatre Festival Directing Observership (2019)
Stage Director and Choreographers Society Directing Observership (2018)
AWARDS & HONORS
“Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play” Nomination for Becomes a Woman – Outer Critics Circle Awards, 2023
Funds for Anti-Oppression Work – A.R.T./New York, 2021
City Artist Corps Grant – New York Foundation for the Arts, 2021
Nominee, Best Director – Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival, 2020
Directing Finalist – Civilians R&D Group, 2020
The Kenneth Janes Prize in Theatre for Outstanding Intellectual and Artistic Achievement – Barnard College, 2018
Bear Pin for Outstanding Service in Student Leadership – Barnard College, 2018
LEADERSHIP & WORK EXPERIENCE
Assistant to Lileana Blain-Cruz (2020-Present)
Co-Founder & Associate Artist, November Theatre Collective (2019-Present)
Gala Directing Associate, Theatre for a New Audience (2022)
Associate Artistic Director, Torn Out Theater (The Naked Shakespeare Company) (2018-22)
Assistant Director, Object Collection (2018-22)
Stage Manager, New York Abortion Access Fund (2020-21)
Guest Artist, PLAYDATE Theatre (2020)
Editorial Assistant, TDR: The Drama Review (2018)
MEDIA APPEARANCES
The New Yorker on “Becomes a Woman” (by Ken Marks)
The New Yorker: “Sophocles Gone Wild!” (by Henry Alford)
Artforum International: “And What Of the Night?” (by Helen Shaw)
Brooklyn Magazine: “A fully naked adaptation of Antigonick is coming to Prospect Park” (by Gabe Friedman)
Time Out New York: “A nude staging of Antigone is coming to Prospect Park this summer” (by Adam Feldman)
The Bare Facts: A Torn Out Theater Feature
EDUCATION
Barnard College of Columbia University:
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Theatre | Minor: English | Concentration: Directing
Departmental Honors, magna cum laude, Kenneth Janes Prize for Outstanding Intellectual and Artistic Achievement