Theatre

Update: Fall 2023

July/Aug saw the sold-out performances of “From Where to Here: A One Woman Show about the 1930s Migration.” Directed by Tanya Alexander and written/performed by me, the interactive show was site-specific and held in the “Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler” exhibit at the Chandler Museum.

Winter/Spring 2020/’21

During the pandemic, I found my way back to theater. Commissioned for Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble’s “Pandemic Plays”, the experience of writing and presenting “For the Love of You” helped get me through that early tough time. A few other notable moments included becoming a new member of Antaeus Playwrights Lab, where I worked on “New Dawn”, a radio play about white supremacy and my effort to speak up during our current turbulent shift toward equality. I was also commissioned to write, “End of the Line” (Dir: Gregg Daniel), and “The Fire In Between,” radio plays for Antaeus’ hugely successful Zip Code Plays. Additionally, having been accepted to Circle X Theatre Evolving Playwrights Group, I developed “Unexplained Infertility”, a fertility ghost story of sorts. I was also accepted to Moving Arts MadLab 2021 cohort and I developed “F/K/A Meridian” about a black woman who is coming undone; she is hanging on by a thread and her need to be seen is pushing her out of real life into a different one…one that leaves her purposely living in her car and finding herself in the complicated simplicity of slowly letting go. Both “Unexplained Fertility” and “F/K/A Meridian” were O’Neill semi-finalists.