I started performing in my hometown of Houston, TX in fifth grade and it quickly became my life. I spent my teen years devouring scripts from the library, and chose to direct The Loman Family Picnic for my senior year of highschool theatre project. I fell in love with leading a group of people to tell a story that put my experience onstage in a way I, nor my community, had never seen.
My time as a Directing major at Webster Conservatory was spent mounting ambitious productions with any and every resource we could find. Those productions (specifically Beirut, Trojan Women, and Generation Z) taught me how to bring together a group of artists to make something viscerally exciting and engaging.
My interest expanded from the art of storytelling to the art of making it possible. I felt a calling to artistic leadership and sought out mission based organizations. I served as an intern for Shakespeare in the Park and after graduating, worked as Michael Friedman's full time intern during his tenure as the New York City Center Encores! Off-Center Artistic Director. This was then followed by an Artistic Internship at Manhattan Theatre Club and a tour with the Public's Mobile Unit.
I joined the Public's full time staff as Ruth Sternberg's assistant and most notably served as the Manager of Designer Relations throughout the pandemic. In this role that I conceptualized, I managed the curation and contracting of designers and assistant designers for productions and artistic programs, as well as assist in budgeting shows and reinforcing artistic scopes. During my tenure the Public achieved its commitment to hiring designers representative of the NYC demographics, much in part to the reformations I heralded such as aggressive designer scouting and investing in earlier career designers. Throughout my many years in the Production, I have come to understand how many different people must work on a production, and it is how we treat our crew, overhire workers, designers, stage managers, assistant designers, as well as our artists, community, and staff, that we demonstrate our values of anti-racism, equity, and inclusion.
I am currently working in Little Island's Artistic Department as their General Manager. Alongside my full time job, I have continued directing and educational work. My directing has been seen at The New Ohio, NYU/Atlantic Acting School, The Tank, Columbia University, and Stevens Institute, among others. I have also worked as a guest lecturer at Oklahoma University and Webster Conservatory, mentoring their senior design students as they prepare for graduation.
Aside from the theatre, I love visual art, politics, music, and traveling (over 20 countries and counting!). I am the youngest of three siblings, uncle to the BEST niece and nephew, and parent to Godot, a pandemic rescue pup.
Selected Directing Credits
Itchy; All Thumbs; This Intervention... // by Jacob Marx Rice; Aaron Loeb; Allie Costa// NYU Atlantic Acting School One Acts
Off-Top Presents* // by Adi Eshman // Fridays on Ice – New Ohio Theatre
The Drowsy Chaperone // by Martin, McKellar // DeBaun Performing Arts Center
Bare // by Hartmere, Intrabartolo // Westchester Sandbox Theatre
Bigger? Sugar? Figure? // by Adi Eshman // Off-Top – The Tank
Hair // by Rado, Ragni, MacDermot // Westchester Sandbox Theatre
Alien at the Airport* // by Sharece Sellem // Dirty Blondes – Kraine Theatre
Rooftop Trilogy* // by Marlene Fanta Shyer // Gallery Players
NBA Store Boyfriend* // by Catherine Weingarten // Super Short Site Specific Festival
Rhinoceros // by Eugene Ionesco // Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University
Things (un)Said* // by Jen Sinnen // Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University
Honeysuckle Epidemic* // by Jake Kevrick // Envisage Theatre Festival
The Trojan Women // by Ellen Mc Laughlin // Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University
Beirut // by Alan Bowne // Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster Universit
Generation Z* // conceived by Maxwell Friedman // Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University
The Other Woman // by David Hare // Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University
Selected Workshops/Readings
Queen of Time // by Ashley Lauren Rogers // Breaking the Binary Theater
Empacy // by Adi Eshman // Columbia University
Unadjusted // by Tori Lassman // After School Special
Dead Meat // by Paige Zubel // Hudson Guild Theatre
Selected Assistant Directing Credits
Disgraced // dir. Seth Gordon // Repertory Theatre St. Louis
Julius Caesar // dir. Joanna Battles // Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
Angel Street // dir. Jenn Thompson // Repertory Theatre St. Louis
Driving Miss Daisy // dir. Kenn McLaughlin // Stages Repertory Theatre
King John // dir. Rick Barbour // Great River Shakespeare Festival
The Glass Menagerie // dir. Paul Mason Barnes // Great River Shakespeare Festival
Full Gallop // dir. Kenn McLaughlin // Stages Repertory Theatre
Fallen Angels // dir. Claire Hart Palumbo // Main Street Theatre
Stage Door // dir. Alec Wild // Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University
Big Love // dir. Jef Awada // Havana Theatre Festival
Education
BA Directing
Conservatory of Theatre Arts
at Webster University
Magna Cum Laude // Departmental Honors // Semester Abroad - Vienna, Austria
Training and Affiliations
ArtEquity// Anti-Racist Theatre: A Foundational 6 Hour Course// Nicole Brewer
ArtEquity// Finding the Keys: Antiracist Approaches to Radical Recruitment in the Arts// Sharifa Johka
Manhattan Theatre Club // (NYC) // Directing Fellow
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society // (NYC) // SDC Observer
Frantic Assembly, The Drama League // (NYC) // Devising Intensive
Teatro Buendia // (CUBA) // Adaptation Intensive
Internships
Manhattan Theatre Club // (NYC) // Artistic Intern // Steve Kaus, Nicki Hunter
Encores! Off-Center // (NYC) // Artistic Intern // Michael Friedman
Director's Lab Chicago // (CHI) // Lab Intern and Participant // Billy Bullion
Shakespeare in the Park // (STL) // General Production Intern // Julie Ann Arbiter
Great River Shakespeare Festival // (MN) // Directing Intern // Paul Mason Barnes
Related Experience
Little Island // (NYC) Jan 2024 - Present // General Manager
Public Theater // (NYC) 2018- July 2023 // Manager of Designer Relations
Breaking the Binary Theater // (NYC) Fall 2023 // Script Reader
Public Theater Mobile Unit // (NYC) Spring 2018 // Tour Assistant // Henry V
BRIEFS LGBT Play Festival // (NYC) Spring 2017 // Playwright // The Grind
Repertory Theatre St. Louis // (STL) Spring 2016 // Dramaturg // Disgraced