Formerly Brooklyn-based, currently London-based
experimental theatre maker, facilitator & lecturer




Artistic Statement

I make work about the making of work. I am interested in process as product — the playful development of a unique artistic practice and the presentation of the practicing of that practice as a staged work of postdramatic theatre or performance. Through these staged interrogations of the act of practicing, I am often calling attention to cultural preconceptions of performance while attempting to conjure the past in contemporary theatrical landscapes.

Through my extensive collaborations with nonprofit arts organisations, I have cultivated a unique set of skills that enables me to create work in a variety of artistic mediums. I frequently direct, produce, perform, devise and facilitate new works with award-winning theatre and performance companies. 


A Brief History

I was the Founding Artistic Director of Theater Reconstruction Ensemble, a former New York-based experimental performance company, for which I conceived and directed a number of critically acclaimed works of devised theatre and scripted collaborations with playwright Jaclyn Backhaus, including You on the Moors NowSet in the Living Room of a Small Town American Play and The Three Seagulls, or MASHAMASHAMASHA!.

As a freelance director, performer and producer, I have collaborated with award-winning artists Colby Day, Joshua William Gelb, David Greenspan, Deirdre McLaughlin, Tina Shepard, tjb and internationally renowned companies The Talking Band, Target Margin Theater and Tempting Failure, among others. My work has been developed and presented at HERE Arts Center, The Brick, Soho Rep’s Walkerspace, The Chocolate Factory Theater and SCRUM Theatre.


Recent Endeavours

I’m the founder and Artistic Director of Not Quite Theatre co., a new London-based laboratory for experimental theatre and performance.

I’m a Visiting Lecturer in Advanced Acting, Theatre Making and Ensemble Production on the BA Theatre course at Brunel University London. And I’m a Visiting Lecturer and Dissertation Supervisor on the MA Applied Theatre and MA/MFA Voice Studies courses at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. I also served as the Head Tutor for Contextual Practice and the Head of 3rd Year BA (Hons) Acting at Italia Conti.


Education

MFA Performance Practice as Research (Distinction): The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London, UK)

BFA Drama: New York University's Tisch School of the Arts — Experimental Theatre Wing & Stella Adler Studio of Acting (New York City, US)