summer 2025

Staged reading of Tré Calhoun’s If You Like Me at My Worst for PrideFest at The Tank NYC.
Invited participant of Directors Lab North in Canada - a seven day lab for international theatre directors, hosted by the University of Toronto. Presented a “Live Cinema” workshop.
Attended plays at Stratford, Shaw and Luminato Festivals, in Canada.
Camped and or hiked at Niagara Glen + Falls and Bruce Peninsula National Park in Ontario and Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

winter / spring 2025

“Live Cinema” consultant at Oberlin College for their mainstage production of Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play.
Staging workshop of Zoë Rhulen’s Dirt for Arts on Site NYC’s Performance Party of works-in-progress.

joined the Director’s Unit at the Actors Studio NYC. Began working on Samuel Beckett’s Eleutheria.
Strange Face script workshop and readings of Evie Mason’s Echo, in a Diner at TheaterLab NYC.
workshopped two new plays by Tré Calhoun: If You Like Me at My Worst and The Village
visited Shenandoah, New River Gorge, and Cuyahoga Valley National Parks.

Writing retreat in Hood River, OR - began new play about G Bernard Shaw and his love letters with actress Stella Campbell for whom he wrote Pygmillion, through the lens of his asexuality.
Visited Chicago and Dallas.
Cross country road trip including visits to eleven National Parks: Badlands, Yellowstone, Arches, Canyonland, Petrified Forest, White Sands, Carlsbad Cavern, Guadalupe Mountains, Hot Springs, Mammoth Cave.

Caryl Churchill’s Far Away @ the Quickening Room / Lethe Lounge, May 15-19 — an immersive, site specific production on two floors of an upper west side brownstone, with live original underscoring on cello.
Script workshop of Evie Mason’s Dorothy Gale: A Trans Fantasia on Ozian Themes

La MaMa Umbria International Directors Symposium, in the mountains of the Italian countryside -
workshops with master artists Thomas Ostermeier (Schaubühne, Berlin Germany), Dmitry Krymov (KyrmovLab NYC), Iman Aoun (Ashtar Theatre, Palestine), and Keng Sen Ong (TheatreWorks, Singapore)
European travel: France (Avignon Festival, Marseille), Italy (Spoletto, Rome), Germany (Berlin), UK (London)

Page 73 - Artistic Apprentice [production: Agnes Borinsky’s The Trees, with Playwrights Horizons]
William Shakespeare’s Hamlet @ Columbia MFA, April 21-23 and Theaterlab April 26-May 4.
Graduated from Columbia University’s School of the Arts with an MFA in Theatre Directing.

Page 73 - Artistic Apprentice [production: Bleu Beckford-Burrell’s La Race, with the Working Theatre]
Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull @ Columbia MFA, October 14-15
Caryl Churchill’s A Number @ the Lethe Lounge, November 12-13 - a site specific workshop reading featuring David Barlow & Bill Army, live underscoring by Mark Ettinger, produced by Zoe Lasden-Lyman

Evie Mason’s This Hair I Tear is Mine (her playwriting thesis) @ Columbia MFA, July 22-24
West Coast travel: California (Los Angeles, Bay Area, Lake Tahoe, Lassen Peak National Park) and Oregon (Portland, Bend, Ashland, Crater Lake National Park)

Gregory S. Moss’s Indian Summer (my directing thesis) @ Columbia MFA, March 10-13
Assistant Director to Michael Mayer on Swept Away with music and lyrics by The Avett Brothers and book by John Logan @ Berkeley Repertory Theatre, January 23-March 13
Emily E. Everett’s -1 0 1 (one act) @ Columbia MFA, March 26

Jacob Sexton’s Hurricane @ Columbia MFA, June 11-12 (live) + July 7-13 (streaming)
West Coast travel - California (Bay Area, Yosemite National Park)