“Judy Doomed Us All,” 2019. Photo Credit: Valerie Terranva Photography @valnovaphotography
Current and Upcoming Projects:
Continuing development on full length play Merry Mount as a 2026 Fellow at Lambda Literary’s Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices (Playwrighting; mentored by Sharifa Yazmeen)
Upcoming lecture hosted by the SLO County Arts Council titled: “Unruly Bodies: Monstrosity, Race and Gender in Pop Culture” (October 21, 2026)
Developing Asynchronous online Theatre History II Course for California Polytechnic State University
Class 34 Member of Leadership SLO
Directing Rocky Horror Picture Show Shadowcast Performance (opening: October 30, 2026)
Past Events and Projects:
June 2026: Play On Shakespeare Summer Adaptation Intensive in San Francisco, CA
April 2024: Q&A Facilitator “Chasing Chasing Amy” with director Sav Rodgers (SLO Film Festival 2024)
August 2023: Developmental Dramaturgy for the Sõng Collective’s annual Việt Writers Lab. Working with writer Tuânminh A Đỗ' and director Andrés López-Alecia
June 28-July 3, 2023: Participated in LTC’s Designer and Director Colaboratorio as a Scholar/Documentarian (essay forthcoming)
June 8, 2023: Interview “The Fine and Fresh Art of Telling Queer Histories on Stage” with Melissa Moschitto (AD, The Anthropologists) and Travis Russ (AD, Life Jacket Theatre Co.) Published on AmericanTheatre.org
May 4-June 3, 2023: Dramaturgy for “Gender Play; or, what you Will” (The Den Theatre, Chicago)
Jan 27-Mar 12, 2023: Dramaturgy for “Laughs in Spanish” (Denver Center for the Performing Arts)
Jun 14, 2022: Interview “Adam Odsess-Rubin’s National Queer Theater, Still Dreaming Forward” published in American Theatre Magazine
Mar 1-7, 2022: Dramaturgy for “Late: a Cowboy Song” (Northwestern University)
Mar 24, 2021: Interview “Yilong Liu: In Liminal Space, What Dreams May Comes” published on AmericanTheatre.org
Feb 12-14, 2021: Dramaturgy for “Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World” (Northwestern University)
Dec 2, 2020: Essay “In the TikTok ‘Ratatouille,’ It’s the Little Things That Count” published on AmericanTheatre.org
July 30, 2020: Presented at the ATHE 2020 Virtual Conference as part of the Dramaturgy Debut Panel. Presentation Title: "Country a-changin', got to change with it!": Staging America's Queer Frontier in Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Oklahoma!
April 2, 2020: Essay “Surviving a Dramaturgical Winter” published on AmericanTheatre.org
March 2020: Accepted a position in Northwestern University’s Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama
Dec 12, 2019: Essay “Queering Theatre Criticism” published on HowlRound
Dec 2, 2019: Sueños: Our American Musical has concert presentation at the New York Theatre Barn as part of New Work Series
Nov 13, 2019: Moderated “What’s Next After Marriage Equality” panel as part of the New Plays from Taiwan Series. Livestream.
Oct 28, 2019: Sueños: Our American Musical has cabaret performance at The Green Room 42. Review.
July 24 - 27, 2019: Judy Doomed us All (development and production dramaturg) runs as part of the New Ohio Theatre’s Ice Factory production series
June 30 - July 14, 2019: Attended the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT.
June 13 - July 6, 2019: Criminal Queerness Festival at IRT Theater in New York. A showcase exploring global homophobia and pride for WorldPride 2019 featuring the top LGBTQ plays from Egypt, Tanzania, Pakistan, and China.
June 11, 2019: Development dramaturg for workshop of the broken’ hearts of a corrupted white house by Matthew Paul Olmos at New Dramatists
May 17, 2019: Development dramaturg for workshop of the broken’ hearts of a corrupted white house by Matthew Paul Olmos at New Dramatists
April 3-7, 2019: Attended the closing weekend of Actors Theater of Louisville’s Humana Festival as the recipient of their Theater Professionals Grant.
January - March 2019: Line Producer for the México/United States Playwright Exchange at the Lark Theater
November 15, 2018: Guest dramaturg and presenter at ArtHouse Productions’ INKubator Workshop.
February - October 2018: Literary and Producing Resident at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
“Oklahoma!,” 2018. Royer Bockus and Tatiana Wechsler. Photo Credit: Jenny Grahm
“Hungry Bodies,” 2017. Emma Cooper and Lara Ruegg.
“Love’s Labors Lost,” 2018. Daniel José Molina, Alejandra Escalante, William Thomas Hodgson, Stephen Michael Spencer, Jeremy Gallardo. Photo Credit: Jenny Graham.
“Judy Doomed Us All,” 2018. Candace Hudert. Photo Credit: Valerie Terranva Photography @valnovaphotography