Theatre is a gathering to manifest, prophesy, and witness.
It is not just make believe.
It is making something which we can believe.
Photo Credit: Maya Jackson
I am a director, actor, and educator who is invested in re-envisioning the stories of our past to manifest our future.
As an actor I spent a decade working in the DMV (Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia), working on everything from Western Eurocentric classics like Macbeth with Shakespeare Theatre Company to world premiere Theatre for Young Audiences shows like Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Musical) with The Kennedy Center to new musicals like A Strange Loop at Woolly Mammoth and on The West End (The Barbican with Trafalgar Entertainment).
You can find my acting resume here
Guided by the awakenings of 2020, I shifted my focus to artistic leadership and assembled The Reclamation Project as a response to the healing that was necessary for so many artists in my community.
Shifting my focus to Directing and Producing has given me the opportunity to transform not just the stories we’re telling onstage, but the culture of our storytelling offstage. I believe that re-envisioning the stories we know and love allows us to use the magic of the theatre to facilitate change both within us and our communities.
You can read more of my thoughts on theatre and the ways we make it in my personal artistic statement.
You can find my directing resume here.
I am currently finishing my M.F.A in Directing at Northwestern University (Class of 2026).
I hope you’ll join me for my final production at Northwestern, a re-envisioning of
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Musical by Frank Loesser / Book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert