COMMUNITY-BASED PLAYWRIGHT, DIRECTOR, AND TEACHER
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I've created work in many communities, including: Johannesburg, South Africa; Central Java, Indonesia; Louisville, KY; New York, NY; Amherst MA; and the farming community of Warwick NY.
Projects include: GASPING WHITENESS (playwright, co-director), a play and community organizing tool about how white supremacy shapes parenting in progressive, middle-class communities; THE BLACK DIRT CYCLE (playwright, director), a three part play about immigration and soil, created with the farming community of Warwick, NY; Peter Handke’s KASPAR (director), performed by theater students in Johannesburg at the beginning of the Mandela era; EYE TO EYE (co-playwright, director), about racism and youth-police relations, created with future police officers and young people from New Haven, CT; and CRUISING THE DIVIDE (playwright), an interview-inspired play about race, class, and the Kentucky Derby, created with the Apprentice/Intern company at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Additional directing credits: REQUIEM FOR AN ELECTRIC CHAIR (International Festival of Arts & Ideas, co-director), TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (Actors Theatre of Louisville), GAME ON, THE OPEN ROAD ANTHOLOGY (Humana Festival); Moliere’s TARTUFFE (Barnard College); and Naomi Wallace's ONE FLEA SPARE (Columbia University)
Awards and fellowships: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Generation Leadership Fellowship,
a civil rights award from Louisville’s Carl Braden Memorial Center, and a Yale University Bates
Fellowship, which brought me to Central Java, Indonesia to train in Javanese Shadow Puppetry.
Currently, I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hampshire College, where I teach courses in applied theatre, directing, and acting.
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I've created work in many communities, including: Johannesburg, South Africa; Central Java, Indonesia; Louisville, KY; New York, NY; Amherst MA; and the farming community of Warwick NY.
Projects include: GASPING WHITENESS (playwright, co-director), a play and community organizing tool about how white supremacy shapes parenting in progressive, middle-class communities; THE BLACK DIRT CYCLE (playwright, director), a three part play about immigration and soil, created with the farming community of Warwick, NY; Peter Handke’s KASPAR (director), performed by theater students in Johannesburg at the beginning of the Mandela era; EYE TO EYE (co-playwright, director), about racism and youth-police relations, created with future police officers and young people from New Haven, CT; and CRUISING THE DIVIDE (playwright), an interview-inspired play about race, class, and the Kentucky Derby, created with the Apprentice/Intern company at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Additional directing credits: REQUIEM FOR AN ELECTRIC CHAIR (International Festival of Arts & Ideas, co-director), TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (Actors Theatre of Louisville), GAME ON, THE OPEN ROAD ANTHOLOGY (Humana Festival); Moliere’s TARTUFFE (Barnard College); and Naomi Wallace's ONE FLEA SPARE (Columbia University)
Awards and fellowships: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Next Generation Leadership Fellowship,
a civil rights award from Louisville’s Carl Braden Memorial Center, and a Yale University Bates
Fellowship, which brought me to Central Java, Indonesia to train in Javanese Shadow Puppetry.
Currently, I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hampshire College, where I teach courses in applied theatre, directing, and acting.
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