Résumé

Playwriting:
2007 The Bathtub Session – Final MA Playwriting piece, Royal Holloway (Staged reading Jun 11)
2008 Student – Rough Cuts, Royal Court Theatre, Winter 2008
2008 The Space Between my Head and my Body – Gin in the Tea Theatre Co., Theatre 503, Jul 22- 25
2008 The Space Between my Head and my Body – Gin in the Tea Theatre Co., Underbelly’s Baby Belly, Jul 31- Aug 24
2008 Extraction – Staged reading at the Jerwood Space, Oct 12
2008 Deception, Illusion and Nate – Dssying Monadys Playwriting Festival, Troy Bar, Oct 27
2009 264 Hours – Staged reading at Southwark Playhouse, Jul 9
2009 Smoke and Pearls – Bagg Theatre Company, Canal Café, Aug 18-22
2009 Deception, Illusion and Nate – Over the Top Productions, Henley Fringe Festival, Jul 21-25
2010 Extraction – Papercut Theatre Co., Camden Etcetera Theatre, Mar 16-21
2010 An Apartment with Grace – Outworks 2010 Festival, Louisiana State University Theatre dept, Apr 13-18
2010 Darker – First Draft Theatre Co., The Horse, April 26-28
2010 Darker (extended version) – First Draft Theatre Co., The Horse, Nov. 22-24
2011 The Burning Mann – Staged reading for Cincinnati Playwright’s Initiative, 5/3 Theatre at the Aronoff, March 8
2011 Your Female Companions – First Draft Theatre Co., The Horse, March 27-29and April 18, 20 and 27.
2011 An Evening of Shorts – Muffin Top Theatre Co., Chase Public, Cincinnati, May 19-21 2011
2011 Darker – New Edgecliff Theatre Co., Cincinnati Fringe Festival, June 2-11
2011 Extraction – Reading with Davenport Theatrical Enterprises, New York June 13
2011 The Space Between my Head and my Body – Published with Original Works Publishing
2011 Your Female Companions – Orange Tea Theatre Company, Mezrab, Amsterdam Holland, August 26
2011 Extraction – Reading at Aurora Fox Theare, Denver Sept. 12
2011 Poe-ssessed: The Masque of the Red Death and The Oval Portrait – New Edgecliff Theatre, Cincinnati, October 29
2012 Frotter – Working Theatre Colaborative, Portland, OR, Feb. 9-14
2012 Welcome Home – Emery Theatre: The Requiem Project, Cincinnati, OH, May 12
2012 The Noise Maker – Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Co. at Monmouth Theatre, Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 27-29
2012 The Canterville Ghost – adapted Radio Play with New Edgecliff Theatre,
Oct. 20
2012 Your Female Companions – The Disreputables SLUT Festival Washington, DC Oct. 22-23
2013 Slow Descent From Heaven – New Edgecliff Theatre, Cincinnati OH Feb 20- March 2
2013 The Space Between my Head and my Body – Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Co., Cincinnati Fringe Festival, May 28- June 8
2013 Frankenstein – adapted Radio Play with New Edgecliff Theatre, Cincinnati OH, Oct. 12th  and 25th
2013 Darker – Published with Original Works Publishing
2014 Fantasies and Nightmares – Staged reading, Made in New York Media Center, New York NY, May, 11th
2014 Flight 212 – Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Co., Cleveland Public Theatre, Sept. 13th
2014 Flight 212 – Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Co., South Asian Theatre Festival, Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 14th
2015 Flight 212 – Beady Little Eyes Theatre Co., Imago Theatre Portland, OR, Feb. 13-14th
2015 Fantasies and Nightmares – Staged reading, The TBG Theatre, New York NY, May, 18th
2016 Shell Game– Staged reading at Ensemble Theatre, Cleveland OH, Feb. 18th
2016 The Burning Mann– Staged reading at Ensemble Theatre, Cleveland, OH, Feb. 25th
2016 Best Intentions– Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Co, Pittsburgh Fringe Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, April 15th
2016 Lucky– Staged Reading with Pittsburgh New Works, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2nd
2016 Best Intentions– Bread and Roses Theatre, London, UK August 2-6th
2016 Best Intentions– Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, UK, August 8-13th
2017 Darker and Illuminated– Reading with Dobama Theatre Playwrighs Gym, Cleveland, OH, Feb. 6th
2017 Illuminated– Convergence Continuum (Tweener Series), Cleveland, OH, June 22nd-24th
2018 Fantasies and Nightmares – Staged reading, Playwrights Local, Cleveland, OH January 27th
2018 Mags – Reading with Dobama Theatre Playwrighs Gym, Cleveland, OH, May 14th
2019 Aim’d so near – BorderLight International Theatre and Fringe Festival, Cleveland, OH, July 25-27th

Training and courses taken:

  • Kenyon College Playwriting Conference June 2015
  • Royal Court Invitation Course, Summer/Fall 2008
  • Royal Court Young Writers Program, Fall 2007
  • Theatre Unlimited ‘Starting Out’ workshop, 2007
  • Soho Theatre Young Writers Tasters Workshop, 2007
  • Portland Actor’s Conservatory Playwriting Workshop, 2006
  • Rocky Mountain Playwriting workshop, 2000

Experience and Memberships:

  • Midwives member (Term 2) 2018-2019
  • Dobama Theatre: Playwright’s GYM member 2016- 2018.
  • Member of Dramatist Guild 2013- 2016.
  • Member of Network of Ensemble Theatres 2013-2017.
  • Member of International Center for Women Playwrights 2013 – pres.
  • Creator and Artistic Director of Shark Eat Muffin Theatre Co. 2012- pres.
  • Playwright in Residence for New Edgecliff Theatre 2011-2013
  • Member of Cincinnati Playwright Initiative 2010-2011 (‘Best of’ panel judge 2012)
  • Co-Artistic Director of Gin in the Tea Theatre Company, 2008–2010
  • Playwright in Residence for Gin in the Tea Theatre Company, 2007–2008
  • Secretary of the Board of Directors at Portland Actor’s Conservatory 2005-2006
  • Editor of PAUSE, 2004 (Lewis & Clark’s annual journal for dramatic writing)

Awards:

  • Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for FY 2018
  • Acclaim Recommended Darker – New Edgecliff 2011
  • “Best New Writing” Darker – First Draft Awards 2010
  • Winner of the Louisiana State University Outworks 2010 Festival, Feb 2010
  • Peggy Ramsay Foundation Grant recipient, Nov 2009

Courses Taught: 

  • 2017 Lake Eire Ink’s Stage Write: Playwriting (two sessions)
  • Introduction to Playwriting  weekend workshop
  • One on one and group play mentoring
  • Monologue workshop/dialogue creation workshop
  • Spaces and Movement
  • Writing a character