I am drawn to art and texts that increase my awareness of experiences that are different than mine, and those that shine a light on my own experience - exposing something new. I approach texts through a prismatic lens, considering how each element reacts and bends and appears different depending on what is next to it. I create performances that make use of shadow and light to evoke a visceral response in my audience heightening the themes inherent in the text I am exploring. Theatre is necessary for democracy and stories are one of our most powerful tools. As a director I aim to wield that tool to further audience's notions of what could be.
Height: 5"8
Eye Color: Brown
Hair Color: Brown
Location: Chicago, IL
2010 - present
Photo by Percy Ollie Jr.
In April 2026, Court Theatre hosted directors, playwrights, artistic and executive directors, and presenters for America@250: A New Works Convening. This three-day event composed of public and private conversations focused on the Chicago, regional, and national theatrical landscapes along with higher education. Alongside Court's artistic director, Avery Willis Hoffman, we produced this convening in partnership with UChicago Arts. We were able to bring together 26 artists from across the country to address urgent questions. As support structures shift and political pressures intensify, what does it take to incubate and present new work today? How do we build sustaining partnerships, and what environments allow artists and ideas to thrive? Free and open to all, but space is limited so reservations are encouraged.
Learn more by reading this article in American Theatre Magazine by Jerald Raymond Pierce.
Click here to read about the Dean's Salon keynote conversation hosted by UChicago Division of Arts & Humanities during the new works convening. The Dean's Salon featured director Peter Sellars and Avery Willis Hoffman in conversation with Dean Debbie Nelson.
2010 - present
Leave Me Breathless is an original autoethnographic piece exploring my relationship to and the relationships between asthma, work, music and my lungs. It was most recently seen as part of HERE: In our Bodies during the February 2026 LookOut Series at SteppenWolf Theatre. I debuted this piece with HERE: Productions original presentation of HERE: In our Bodies at the Newport Theatre in April, 2025.
Photo by Joe Mazza
In November 2022, I began working at Court Theatre located at the University of Chicago. Since starting at Court I have assisted with producing numerous developmental workshops, readings of new works such as Out Here and blk eurydice, along with multiple playwright residencies with such artists as Stacey Rose, Jenny Connell Davis and Roger Q. Mason as part of their new canon cultivation initative. I have also expanded our internship offerings and manage an annual cohort of interns. I also supported the search for Court Theatre's third official Marilyn F. Vitale Artistic Director, Avery Willis Hoffman. Alongside Avery I am supporting preparations for Court's 75th anniversary coming during the 29-30 season. Most recently I helped produce our New Works Convening which brought together artists from across the country to discuss the joys and challenges of creating new works in our current landscape.
In partnership with the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation and Generations United, the artists of Limelight, LLC. crafted a new performance aimed at raising awareness about the unique experience of being a Solo Ager. This performance highlights individual experiences from 18 culturally, economically and racially distinct solo agers interviewed across Southeast, MI and Western, NY that speak to the collective experience of this growing population. According to the Pew Research Center, more than 25% of adults 60 years of age and older are considered Solo Agers and that number is only expected to rise. As it does, we hope the Solo Acts will help illuminate unique individual and collective experiences and in doing so assist caregivers, faith leaders, non-profit directors, policy makers, philanthropy and solo agers. To learn more, click here.
In 2020 in received my M.A. in Interpretation and Performance Studies from Eastern Michigan University. During my graduate studies I served as a director in the 2019 Student Written Student Directed One Act Festival, and I assistant directed a devised piece entitled [Something Between] which performed early March 2020. I also designed and facilitated an applied theatre program for addressing verbal violence between Asian youth and their parents. In addition to these activities, I served as a graduate instructor for two sections of Foundations of Speech Communication, a graduate supervisor in the scene shop and the social media coordinator for the College of Arts & Sciences. My research has led me to explore Queer identity through applied theatre, autoethnography, the performance of oral histories, arts based research and physical performance.