News & Press
10/30/24
My poem "In County Clare" is now live in the Watershed Review's Fall 2024 issue. Read it here!
10/17/24
Excited to announce that I will be playing Jacki Slaps in the regional premiere of Punk Rock Girl! at Playhouse on the Square. The show will open March 21st.
9/29/24
Today kicks off the NewWorks@TheWorks staged reading series at Playhouse on the Square! I am beyond honored to have coordinated the playwriting competition and series again this year.
9/20/24
I received my advanced contributor's copy of the newest issue of Modern Language Studies today. Two of my poems--"Down" and "Record Low Mississippi River"--are included in Volume 54, No. 1!
9/13/24
Happy opening to A Midsummer Night's Dream at Theatre Memphis! I'm so honored to be playing Helena in this production directed by John Maness.
8/30/24
"When the Streetlamps are On" published today with Jelly Bucket through the Bluegrass Writers Studio. The short story is inspired by a real billboard outside St. Louis.
8/29/24
Today was the first day of the Teaching Artist Training Program through the Orpheum Theatre Group! Excited to be a part of this learning cohort for the fall.
8/16/24
Excited to announce I will be providing dramaturgical research and services for the world premiere production of Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin by Dianne Nora at Playhouse on the Square! It's an honor to work with director Tony Isbell on this project.
8/5/24
I have officially completed my second residency with Augsburg University's MFA program. Next summer, I will attend my final residency and present both my thesis and craft paper before graduating from the program.
7/16/24
My poem "In Delphi" was just published in Audience Askew through Nat 1 Publishing. Get your copy here!
7/7/24
"Runner's High" is live with Rising Phoenix Review! Give it a read here.
6/29/24
Excited to have directed Ballad of a Very Glorious Leader through LoneTree Live's 24Hour Plays! It was a wonderful experience working with my collaborators. The production program can be read here.
6/17/24
My poem "In County Clare" will be published later this year in the Watershed Review!
6/13/24
My poems "Down" and "Record Low Mississippi River" were selected for publication with Modern Language Studies, a journal representing members of the Northeast Modern Language Association.
6/8/24
I was selected as a Director for LoneTree Live's 24Hour Plays, a festival taking place later this month!
6/7/24
My poem "Compulsive" was included in the collection S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx through Moonstone Press, available here.
6/1/24
PRESS--Faces of Bisexuality, Bi.org
5/31/24
Tickets are on sale now for Silence is Violence: Wish Me Well through Young Playwrights' Theater. I was honored to be asked to write for this partnership with Voices Unbarred exploring the role of wellness in the body.
5/17/24
My poem "unnamed" was published in Issue #4 of Gabby & Min's Literary Review! Read it here.
4/22/24
Excited to announce that I will be starting a new position as Program Manager for Girls on the Run Memphis! I'm excited to uplift young women in my city through after school programming and recreation.
4/18/24
I just received word that I was cast as Helena in Theatre Memphis' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream! Excited to return to the stage in September.
4/17/24
My poem "Compulsive" will appear in the 2024 print poetry anthology S/He Speaks: Voices of Women and Trans Folx in June!
4/3/24
My poem "In Delphi" will be published in the upcoming issue of Audience Askew Literary Journal.
3/11/24
My poem "unnamed" was selected for publication with Gabby & Min's Literary Review this spring!
3/11/24
My play "The Death of Alan Campbell: A Wilde Affair" was selected as a Finalist for the 2024 Waterworks Festival through Live Arts!
2/27/24
My poem "Cereal Dater" will be included in the summer issue of Millennial Pulp, Vol. 5!
2/23/24
My short story "When the Streetlamps Are On" will be included in Jelly Bucket #14 this summer!
2/19/24
My poem "853 Haiku" was included in a themed edition of the North Star Journal through the Sierra Club. Check out a PDF of the publication here.
2/12/24
My flash fiction piece "The Three Days Fast" was published by Flash Fiction Magazine! Check it out here.
1/24/24
PRESS--20 < 30 – The Class of 2024.
12/20/23
PRESS--Winter Arts Guide 2023.
12/4/23
PRESS--Playhouse On The Square Reveals NewWorks@TheWorks Winners.
11/17/23
One of my poems will be included as a 853 haiku celebrating Minneapolis and St. Paul through the Sierra Club's North Star Chapter in their winter journal.
11/15/23
"Rinse Cycle" was published in the November issue of One-Sentence Poems! Take a look here.
11/4/23
Received news that my poem "In Tennessee, Pt. II" will be published with The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature in April of 2024!
10/8/23
My poem "Rinse Cycle" was selected for publication with One-Sentence Poems through Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press! The work will be included in their November issue.
9/12/23
PRESS--Playhouse on the Square Reveals Finalists of the 2023 NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition.
9/8/23
"Blue Lagoon Baby" was published by Papers Publishing today! Giver her a read here.
8/28/23
We announced our Finalists for the 2023 NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition at Playhouse on the Square today! It was an absolute joy to read over 500 scripts from around the world and select these fantastic original pieces: Facebook Announcement Here
7/22/23
Today is the first day of my summer residency for my Creative Writing MFA at Augsburg University. I'm excited to spend a week in Minneapolis with fantastic writers!
6/24/23
I just participated in and completed LoneTree Live's 24 Hour Plays! I wrote a ten-script for four local Memphis actors entitled "The Delta Pumpkin Pi Philanthropy Talent Show." Check out the event program here.
5/19/23
Play Slam! Year 5 at Playhouse on the Square begins today! The festival celebrating young playwrights with continue through the 21st and feature 12 ten-minute plays written by middle and high schoolers in the Mid-South.
5/16/23
PRESS--CPI Host 5th Annual Play Slam! Young Playwright's Festival.
5/12/23
PRESS--Continuing at Playhouse: NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812.
4/28/23
Happy opening to Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812!
3/21/23
Today was the first rehearsal for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at Playhouse on the Square. I'll be serving as a dramaturg and assistant director for the production.
3/17/23
Read my poem "Fragile" at Sad Girls Club here.
3/9/23
PRESS--Playhouse PLAY SLAM! WINNERS AND FINALISTS: storyboardmemphis.org/arts/playhouse-play-slam-winners-and-finalists/
3/6/23
Winners of Play Slam! Year 5 at Playhouse on the Square were announced today! I have been coordinating and planning this 10-minute play competition and festival for the year. Read more here.
2/27/23
My poem "Fragile" was accepted for publication with Sad Girls Club! It will go live on March 17th.
2/4/23
Roe opened at Playhouse on the Square! Excited to share this work with the world.
1/3/23
Today is the first rehearsal for Roe at Playhouse on the Square. I'll be working as an Assistant Stage Manager for the project directed by Irene Crist.
10/1/22
Excited to take on coordinating Play Slam!, a playwriting competition for young writers, at Playhouse on the Square!
9/9/22
My original poem "Hunger" was selected for publication in the ebook Remarkable Poetry through Silent Spark Press! Order it here.
7/10/22
SWC was a blast! I've grown tremendously and met some amazingly talented people.
7/8/22
Happy opening day to Shanktown at TheatreWorks@The Square! I am excited to have contributed some dramaturgical work to the production through Playhouse Prep.
7/6/22
First day of the Southampton Writers Conference at Stony Brook University! Excited to workshop my short story "Blue Lagoon Baby" with Frederic Tuten and ten other wonderful writers.
6/14/22
Today was my first day at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN. I'll be here for a year working as an Administrative and Front of House Apprentice.
4/19/22
Today, I was accepted to the Southampton Writers Conference workshop series. Excited for the program in July!
2/28/22
My short story "92" was officially published today as a part of Mid-Atlantic Tales: Vol. 2. Buy a copy here.
2/4/22
Look for my poem "Vanilla Latte" published with One Sentence Poems!
1/15/22
Excited to begin reading submissions with West Trade Review's Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction competition!
11/4/21
Tickets for All Together Now! are on sale now--get them while you can.
9/27/21
Today was the first rehearsal for Rock Hill Theatre's production of All Together Now! I will be stage managing the production, directed by Titus Quinn.
8/25/21
First day of school! Excited to be teaching at Ranson IB Middle School as a corp member for Teach for America.
7/17/21
Theatre: A Love Story premieres today at the Women's Theatre Festival! In addition to performing in TALS, I was also able to build captions for The Bowels, another piece in the fringe festival.
6/13/21
As of today, I have officially graduated from Dartmouth College--go Big Green!
5/15/21
Excited to announce that I will be performing at the Women's Theatre Festival fringe festival this July in the Lab work Theatre: A Love Story by Caridad Svich! I will also be captioning select performances for the festival.
5/2/21
Jane premiered through the Dartmouth College Department of Theater! Thanks to all the actors and creatives who made it possible.
4/25/21
We are officially one week out from the performance of my original honors thesis play Jane!
4/14/21
I am honored to have received the Benjamin & Edna Ehrlich Prize in the Dramatic Arts and the Warner Bentley & Henry B. Williams Fellowship from the Dartmouth College Department of Theater!
2/3/21
A staged reading of The House produced by Young Playwrights' Theater premiered virtually on YouTube! Working with YPT has been such an amazing experience, and I am excited to see how the play grows even more between now and our next reading in May.
1/4/21
Excited to begin my time as an apprentice (virtually) with the Women's Theatre Festival in Raleigh, NC!
11/6/20
The premiere of Tell Me I'm Not is here! Huge thanks to the Dartmouth Department of Theater. Check the show out on their YouTube!
10/11/20
Currently working on writing and performing a solo show this November called Tell Me I'm Not, focusing on experiences living with obsessive compulsive disorder. More information can be found here.
9/19/20
Excited to begin working on Faith, Hope, and Charity, a radio play directed by Peter Hackett this fall!
8/28/20
PRESS--Young Playwrights' Theater Announces 2020-21 Young Playwrights in Process.
8/27/20
PRESS--Young Playwrights' Theater Names First Playwrights In Progress.
8/20/20
Excited to begin Young Playwrights' Theater's year-long Young Playwrights in Process workshop of The House!
8/11/20
PRESS--Suffolk alumna receives theater award.
8/8/20
Little Circles was presented as a staged reading today via Zoom webinar as a part of the 2020 Frost & Dodd Playwriting Festival. A big thank you to director Niegel Smith and all the various artists who made the work possible!
8/2/2020
The first read-through of Little Circles for the 2020 Frost & Dodd Playwriting Festival is here! This is the beginning of a week-long process culminating in a staged reading of the play, presented through distance technology.
2/21/20
PRESS--Students Bring Research to 'The Sweet Science of Bruising.
6/20/18
PRESS--NRHS alum writes contest-winning play.
5/3/17
PRESS--NRHS student a theater prodigy.
My poem "In County Clare" is now live in the Watershed Review's Fall 2024 issue. Read it here!
10/17/24
Excited to announce that I will be playing Jacki Slaps in the regional premiere of Punk Rock Girl! at Playhouse on the Square. The show will open March 21st.
9/29/24
Today kicks off the NewWorks@TheWorks staged reading series at Playhouse on the Square! I am beyond honored to have coordinated the playwriting competition and series again this year.
9/20/24
I received my advanced contributor's copy of the newest issue of Modern Language Studies today. Two of my poems--"Down" and "Record Low Mississippi River"--are included in Volume 54, No. 1!
9/13/24
Happy opening to A Midsummer Night's Dream at Theatre Memphis! I'm so honored to be playing Helena in this production directed by John Maness.
8/30/24
"When the Streetlamps are On" published today with Jelly Bucket through the Bluegrass Writers Studio. The short story is inspired by a real billboard outside St. Louis.
8/29/24
Today was the first day of the Teaching Artist Training Program through the Orpheum Theatre Group! Excited to be a part of this learning cohort for the fall.
8/16/24
Excited to announce I will be providing dramaturgical research and services for the world premiere production of Six Men Dressed Like Joseph Stalin by Dianne Nora at Playhouse on the Square! It's an honor to work with director Tony Isbell on this project.
8/5/24
I have officially completed my second residency with Augsburg University's MFA program. Next summer, I will attend my final residency and present both my thesis and craft paper before graduating from the program.
7/16/24
My poem "In Delphi" was just published in Audience Askew through Nat 1 Publishing. Get your copy here!
7/7/24
"Runner's High" is live with Rising Phoenix Review! Give it a read here.
6/29/24
Excited to have directed Ballad of a Very Glorious Leader through LoneTree Live's 24Hour Plays! It was a wonderful experience working with my collaborators. The production program can be read here.
6/17/24
My poem "In County Clare" will be published later this year in the Watershed Review!
6/13/24
My poems "Down" and "Record Low Mississippi River" were selected for publication with Modern Language Studies, a journal representing members of the Northeast Modern Language Association.
6/8/24
I was selected as a Director for LoneTree Live's 24Hour Plays, a festival taking place later this month!
6/7/24
My poem "Compulsive" was included in the collection S/He Speaks 2: Voices of Women, Trans & Nonbinary Folx through Moonstone Press, available here.
6/1/24
PRESS--Faces of Bisexuality, Bi.org
5/31/24
Tickets are on sale now for Silence is Violence: Wish Me Well through Young Playwrights' Theater. I was honored to be asked to write for this partnership with Voices Unbarred exploring the role of wellness in the body.
5/17/24
My poem "unnamed" was published in Issue #4 of Gabby & Min's Literary Review! Read it here.
4/22/24
Excited to announce that I will be starting a new position as Program Manager for Girls on the Run Memphis! I'm excited to uplift young women in my city through after school programming and recreation.
4/18/24
I just received word that I was cast as Helena in Theatre Memphis' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream! Excited to return to the stage in September.
4/17/24
My poem "Compulsive" will appear in the 2024 print poetry anthology S/He Speaks: Voices of Women and Trans Folx in June!
4/3/24
My poem "In Delphi" will be published in the upcoming issue of Audience Askew Literary Journal.
3/11/24
My poem "unnamed" was selected for publication with Gabby & Min's Literary Review this spring!
3/11/24
My play "The Death of Alan Campbell: A Wilde Affair" was selected as a Finalist for the 2024 Waterworks Festival through Live Arts!
2/27/24
My poem "Cereal Dater" will be included in the summer issue of Millennial Pulp, Vol. 5!
2/23/24
My short story "When the Streetlamps Are On" will be included in Jelly Bucket #14 this summer!
2/19/24
My poem "853 Haiku" was included in a themed edition of the North Star Journal through the Sierra Club. Check out a PDF of the publication here.
2/12/24
My flash fiction piece "The Three Days Fast" was published by Flash Fiction Magazine! Check it out here.
1/24/24
PRESS--20 < 30 – The Class of 2024.
12/20/23
PRESS--Winter Arts Guide 2023.
12/4/23
PRESS--Playhouse On The Square Reveals NewWorks@TheWorks Winners.
11/17/23
One of my poems will be included as a 853 haiku celebrating Minneapolis and St. Paul through the Sierra Club's North Star Chapter in their winter journal.
11/15/23
"Rinse Cycle" was published in the November issue of One-Sentence Poems! Take a look here.
11/4/23
Received news that my poem "In Tennessee, Pt. II" will be published with The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature in April of 2024!
10/8/23
My poem "Rinse Cycle" was selected for publication with One-Sentence Poems through Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press! The work will be included in their November issue.
9/12/23
PRESS--Playhouse on the Square Reveals Finalists of the 2023 NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition.
9/8/23
"Blue Lagoon Baby" was published by Papers Publishing today! Giver her a read here.
8/28/23
We announced our Finalists for the 2023 NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition at Playhouse on the Square today! It was an absolute joy to read over 500 scripts from around the world and select these fantastic original pieces: Facebook Announcement Here
7/22/23
Today is the first day of my summer residency for my Creative Writing MFA at Augsburg University. I'm excited to spend a week in Minneapolis with fantastic writers!
6/24/23
I just participated in and completed LoneTree Live's 24 Hour Plays! I wrote a ten-script for four local Memphis actors entitled "The Delta Pumpkin Pi Philanthropy Talent Show." Check out the event program here.
5/19/23
Play Slam! Year 5 at Playhouse on the Square begins today! The festival celebrating young playwrights with continue through the 21st and feature 12 ten-minute plays written by middle and high schoolers in the Mid-South.
5/16/23
PRESS--CPI Host 5th Annual Play Slam! Young Playwright's Festival.
5/12/23
PRESS--Continuing at Playhouse: NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812.
4/28/23
Happy opening to Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812!
3/21/23
Today was the first rehearsal for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 at Playhouse on the Square. I'll be serving as a dramaturg and assistant director for the production.
3/17/23
Read my poem "Fragile" at Sad Girls Club here.
3/9/23
PRESS--Playhouse PLAY SLAM! WINNERS AND FINALISTS: storyboardmemphis.org/arts/playhouse-play-slam-winners-and-finalists/
3/6/23
Winners of Play Slam! Year 5 at Playhouse on the Square were announced today! I have been coordinating and planning this 10-minute play competition and festival for the year. Read more here.
2/27/23
My poem "Fragile" was accepted for publication with Sad Girls Club! It will go live on March 17th.
2/4/23
Roe opened at Playhouse on the Square! Excited to share this work with the world.
1/3/23
Today is the first rehearsal for Roe at Playhouse on the Square. I'll be working as an Assistant Stage Manager for the project directed by Irene Crist.
10/1/22
Excited to take on coordinating Play Slam!, a playwriting competition for young writers, at Playhouse on the Square!
9/9/22
My original poem "Hunger" was selected for publication in the ebook Remarkable Poetry through Silent Spark Press! Order it here.
7/10/22
SWC was a blast! I've grown tremendously and met some amazingly talented people.
7/8/22
Happy opening day to Shanktown at TheatreWorks@The Square! I am excited to have contributed some dramaturgical work to the production through Playhouse Prep.
7/6/22
First day of the Southampton Writers Conference at Stony Brook University! Excited to workshop my short story "Blue Lagoon Baby" with Frederic Tuten and ten other wonderful writers.
6/14/22
Today was my first day at Playhouse on the Square in Memphis, TN. I'll be here for a year working as an Administrative and Front of House Apprentice.
4/19/22
Today, I was accepted to the Southampton Writers Conference workshop series. Excited for the program in July!
2/28/22
My short story "92" was officially published today as a part of Mid-Atlantic Tales: Vol. 2. Buy a copy here.
2/4/22
Look for my poem "Vanilla Latte" published with One Sentence Poems!
1/15/22
Excited to begin reading submissions with West Trade Review's Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for Fiction competition!
11/4/21
Tickets for All Together Now! are on sale now--get them while you can.
9/27/21
Today was the first rehearsal for Rock Hill Theatre's production of All Together Now! I will be stage managing the production, directed by Titus Quinn.
8/25/21
First day of school! Excited to be teaching at Ranson IB Middle School as a corp member for Teach for America.
7/17/21
Theatre: A Love Story premieres today at the Women's Theatre Festival! In addition to performing in TALS, I was also able to build captions for The Bowels, another piece in the fringe festival.
6/13/21
As of today, I have officially graduated from Dartmouth College--go Big Green!
5/15/21
Excited to announce that I will be performing at the Women's Theatre Festival fringe festival this July in the Lab work Theatre: A Love Story by Caridad Svich! I will also be captioning select performances for the festival.
5/2/21
Jane premiered through the Dartmouth College Department of Theater! Thanks to all the actors and creatives who made it possible.
4/25/21
We are officially one week out from the performance of my original honors thesis play Jane!
4/14/21
I am honored to have received the Benjamin & Edna Ehrlich Prize in the Dramatic Arts and the Warner Bentley & Henry B. Williams Fellowship from the Dartmouth College Department of Theater!
2/3/21
A staged reading of The House produced by Young Playwrights' Theater premiered virtually on YouTube! Working with YPT has been such an amazing experience, and I am excited to see how the play grows even more between now and our next reading in May.
1/4/21
Excited to begin my time as an apprentice (virtually) with the Women's Theatre Festival in Raleigh, NC!
11/6/20
The premiere of Tell Me I'm Not is here! Huge thanks to the Dartmouth Department of Theater. Check the show out on their YouTube!
10/11/20
Currently working on writing and performing a solo show this November called Tell Me I'm Not, focusing on experiences living with obsessive compulsive disorder. More information can be found here.
9/19/20
Excited to begin working on Faith, Hope, and Charity, a radio play directed by Peter Hackett this fall!
8/28/20
PRESS--Young Playwrights' Theater Announces 2020-21 Young Playwrights in Process.
8/27/20
PRESS--Young Playwrights' Theater Names First Playwrights In Progress.
8/20/20
Excited to begin Young Playwrights' Theater's year-long Young Playwrights in Process workshop of The House!
8/11/20
PRESS--Suffolk alumna receives theater award.
8/8/20
Little Circles was presented as a staged reading today via Zoom webinar as a part of the 2020 Frost & Dodd Playwriting Festival. A big thank you to director Niegel Smith and all the various artists who made the work possible!
8/2/2020
The first read-through of Little Circles for the 2020 Frost & Dodd Playwriting Festival is here! This is the beginning of a week-long process culminating in a staged reading of the play, presented through distance technology.
2/21/20
PRESS--Students Bring Research to 'The Sweet Science of Bruising.
6/20/18
PRESS--NRHS alum writes contest-winning play.
5/3/17
PRESS--NRHS student a theater prodigy.