Current & Upcoming Projects

• I will be dramaturging Kimberly Belflower’s John Proctor is the Villain (directed by Margot Bordelon) at The Huntington in February 2024.

• I’m currently serving as the project documentarian for the Artistic Caucus, a landmark two-year collaboration between four regional theatres to disrupt traditional artistic development models. The first installment of my public reporting on the initiative was published by Howlround in July 2023.

Recent Projects

• I dramaturged the world premiere of Morgan Gould’s Jennifer Who Is Leaving for Round House Theatre’s National Capital New Play Festival.

• I moderated two panel conversations for Theatre Washington’s DC Theatre Week: Women in Charge (September 23 at Arena Stage) and #DCTheatre Season Preview (October 2 at The Smithsonian Ripley Center).

• In January 2023, I concluded a three-year term as a judge for the Helen Hayes Awards.

• I taught PERF220: Reflections on American Society on Stage at American University during the Fall 2021 semester, with a focus on contemporary playwrights who write multiple plays set in a specific region or community.

• I served on the grant review panels for the FY24 & FY21 DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Theatre and Performance Fellowship Program.

Dramaturgical Writing

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Program Notes

• John Proctor is the Villain, Kimberly Belflower

• Jennifer Who Is Leaving, Morgan Gould

• Admissions, Joshua Harmon

• Pass Over, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu

• Pipeline, Dominique Morisseau

• The Wolves, Sarah DeLappe

• Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov

• The Father, Florian Zeller

Essays on Plays and Playwrights

• The Power Plays of Sarah Burgess

• Reality Bites: P.Y.G., or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle

• There Must Be More Than This Provincial Life: Three Sisters

• Three Plays, Three Eras: The Detroit Project

Dramaturgy

Selected Credits

* world premiere
† US premiere
** co-dramaturg

The Huntington

• John Proctor is the Villain, Kimberly Belflower | Director: Margot Bordelon

Round House Theatre

• Jennifer Who Is Leaving* | Writer/Director: Morgan Gould

Studio Theatre

• Pass Over, Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu | Director: Psalmayene 24

• Pipeline, Dominique Morisseau | Director: Awoye Timpo

• Doubt, John Patrick Shanley | Director: Matt Torney

• PYG, or the Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle* | Writer/Director: Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm

• Admissions, Joshua Harmon | Director: Mike Donahue

• Kings, Sarah Burgess | Director: Marti Lyons

• If I Forget, Steven Levenson | Director: Matt Torney

• Vietgone, Qui Nguyen | Director: Natsu Onoda Power

• The Wolves, Sarah DeLappe | Director: Marti Lyons

• Skeleton Crew, Dominique Morisseau | Director: Patricia McGregor

• The Father, Florian Zeller | Director: David Muse

• Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov | Director: Jackson Gay

• The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard | Director: Matt Torney

• Hand to God, Robert Askins | Director: Joanie Schultz

• Moment, Deirdre Kinahan † | Director: Ethan McSweeny

• Between Riverside and Crazy, Stephen Adly Guirgis | Director: Brian Macdevitt

• Chimerica, Lucy Kirkwood † | Director: David Muse

• Choir Boy, Tarell Alvin McCraney | Director: Kent Gash

• The Wolfe Twins, Rachel Bonds* | Director: Mike Donahue

• Belleville, Amy Herzog | Director: David Muse

• Water by the Spoonful, Quiara Alegria Hudes | Director: KJ Sanchez

• Tribes, Nina Raine | Director: David Muse

• Torch Song Trilogy, Harvey Fierstein | Director: Michael Kahn

• The Real Thing, Tom Stoppard | Director: David Muse

• The Motherfucker with the Hat, Stephen Adly Guirgis | Director: Serge Seiden

• The Aliens, Annie Baker | Director: Lila Neugebauer

• Bachelorette, Leslye Headland | Director: David Muse

• The Big Meal, Dan Lefranc | Director: Johanna Gruenhut

• Time Stands Still, Donald Margulies | Director: Susan Fenichell
  

The Alley Theatre

• Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw | Director: Anders Cato

• August: Osage County, Tracy Letts | Director: Jackson Gay

• Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie** | Director: Gregory Boyd

• A Behanding in Spokane, Martin McDonagh | Director: James Black

• Harvey, Mary Chase** | Director: Gregory Boyd

• Mrs. Mannerly, Jeffrey Hatcher | Director: John Rando

• Our Town, Thornton Wilder** | Director: Gregory Boyd

• Sherlock Holmes & The Crucifer of Blood | Director: Gregory Boyd

• The Farnsworth Invention, Aaron Sorkin** | Director: David Cromer

• The Man Who Came to Dinner, Kaufman & Hart | Director: John Rando