Three seven-year-olds and their mothers embark on a geology field trip filled with make-believe games, a hunger for validation, and the straight up weirdness of being (or having) a kid.
Rocks and Geodes
Upcoming: Premiere Production | Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research | dir. Kaitlin Goldin. July 10-13, 17-20. Follow along on instagram | tickets coming soon
Development History
Lightly-staged Reading | Playwrights Horizons Downtown Studios | dir. Kaitlin Goldin. December 2024.
Workshop and Reading | Undergrad Underground, Brown/Trinity Writing is Live Festival | led by Julia Jarcho. May 2024.
Developed in Advanced Playwriting at Brown/Trinity with Deborah Salem Smith. Spring 2022.
Two step-siblings battle themselves, each other, scorpions, the relentless Southern California sun, and a crumbling house to stake their ground in a newly formed family.
Scorpions Don’t Bite
Development History
Providence Fringe Festival | dir. Kaitlin Goldin. July 2023. | watch here
Can adopting a cat save a dysfunctional relationship? Will taking care of plants together keep a couple from wilting away? What if the cat starts speaking and smoking? What if the plants start decaying and dying?
RUFUS
Development History
Brown University | dir. Lydia Riess. Fall 2021. | watch here
Developed in Playwriting I at Brown University with Seayoung Yim. Spring 2021.
A woman struggling to become pregnant goes to IKEA with the simple mission of buying a couch, but when she bumps into an ex and a stray child, she is thrust into a whirlwind of memory, grief, and make-believe.
The IKEA Play
Development History
Playwrights’ and Librettists’ Week at The National Theater Institute | dir. Emma Cavage. Fall 2020. | watch here
Developed in Playwriting with Ren Dara Santiago at The National Theater Institute. Fall 2020.