About Me

When I was five, my dad built a stage for me out of concrete in our backyard. It was ugly, it ruined our patio, and we’re still finding chunks of it in the grass to this day, but I was a tiny artist in need of a big space for my stories. In the mornings, after school, and sometimes in the dark, I would set up my boombox and share my drafts, ponderings, and musings with my family, the mailwoman, and any neighbor passing by. My parents demolished the stage when I was in middle school in pursuit of a nicer patio arrangement, but the stage still exists, in a way.

The stage moved inside my head. I started writing prose stories that came from journal entries, and I was thrust into playwriting in college, eager to try something new. I found that in plays, I could be poetic, but I could also be weird. I could expel my silly thoughts and marry them with some very serious ones. Playwriting has been an exploration of my multitudes through the development of characters, plot, and worlds. It is how I can finally address the stage in my mind.

The stage still exists in my body, too, and that is where my performance work. Through performance, I bring to life poignant, truthful, funny stories about this world and other ones. Performing is how I have made my body a home, and I invite audiences into that home.

Born in Miami, Florida, raised in Aurora, Colorado, educated in Washington, DC, and currently enjoying Chicago, Illinois, I am a writer, actor, singer, dancer, educator, and everything in between.