I’ve wanted to write for as long as I can remember, but that’s mostly all it was. Wanting to write. Thinking about writing. It took me a while to figure out why I wanted to write.

My first year out of college, I got to teach acting to a group of high schoolers at the theater studio I went to growing up. I was constantly inspired by their talent and intelligence and passion, and constantly frustrated at the lack of good material for the girls. There were certainly roles out there, but never enough, and few that I thought were a match for their talent. I soon began thinking, “Why don’t I just do it myself?”, and started work on what would become my first full-length play, Brutal.

The purpose of my work is to create authentic, heartwarming, and nuanced stories about the lives of women and teenage girls. Many of the narratives about women boil down to pain and suffering, or gloss over their imperfections in order for them to appear “empowered.” The reality lies in the middle, and it is in this messy middle that my characters live and grow. I want to not only create great roles for young women and girls, but to create stories that they can relate to and see themselves in.

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