Plays

Valence

a play about sex, death, and intimacy with 3 people looking for closeness in 3 different ways.

2 he/him, 1 she/her
#medicalindustry #power #kink #heartbreak #narcissism #assistedsuicide #racesexclass #bellhooks #mysogniNOIR

The Blewish Dybbuk Project, or The Ibbur

A music filled adaptation of S. Ansky's The Dybbuk, reclaiming the classic, mystical, Yiddish text in a Black Jewish woman’s body. Grief and longing over the murder of Elijah McClain opens up a young woman as a vessel for his soul on the eve of her wedding. What is real and what is supernatural? What is love and Justice? Good and evil? — a Dybbuk is defined as possession by an Evil spirit. In The Blewish Dybbuk, the dead soul has been miscast, seen as evil on the outside, despite being a divinely beautiful soul. Music and sound: Austin Purnell.

The Non Monog-ologues

A documentary theatre piece made up of interviews I did with women about love, sex, monogamy, identity, queerness, and autonomy. Excerpt from LABA at 14th st Y performance as part of my fellowship in 2022 on "Chosen-ness."

in their absence

a short play for Society Theatre with Simone Recasner and Shay Vawn Webster, Dir. Zoey Martinson. Excerpt from weekly pandemic show "Cheap Date" with Society Theatre Company.

more writing

Shakespeare than Fiction

My Swazi play

#fathers #daughters #death #mystery #thekingdomofEswatini #Hamlet #basedontrueevents

Workshop Development: Alter theatre San Rafael, CA as resident playwright. Staged Reading: Freeplay NYU Tisch Grad Acting Festival. There is interest in adapting into a film, and a YA novel based on my undergraduate thesis of the same title.

the place / space writings

Working on my travel book of Twitter poems (from the before times), koans, and short essays from world travels- from living in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the centennial of the race massacre, to visiting England, Ireland, and France.

#greenishbook #twitter #thebeforetimes #koans #spiritualawakening #racesexclass #140charachters

The Sun Ra Project

Adaptation of a theatre "classic," into a Sun Ra inspired, arkestral experience.