About

I write because my mother writes. Because my father told my sister and I stories about a magic moose before bed - her in the top bunk, me in the bottom. I write because when I take a walk by myself and really notice the world, I am overwhelmed by beauty, fear, and chance. The lyricism of the everyday in the sparkle of forgotten confetti disguising itself in the grass, the dusty sparrows congregating around a dropped bag of chips. The way the world flows together and against itself is constantly on my mind in those moments that I am alone, quiet, and observant. I write to understand what is happening around me and inside of me. To make sense of the tiny sliver of life I was given and to find the cracks within it.

 

I’m inspired by places both known and imagined. I come from a town surrounded by fields – corn, soy, and alfalfa. Once, I walked through the corn and found an abandoned barn hidden in a copse of trees with a burned-out airstream trailer and the remains of some charred, cat-like creature. I remembered then what I had once known as a child — that magic can be found in these places hidden amongst all of the flatness.

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My work is internal and often quite personal. It touches upon universalities of human-ness like guilt, growth, and wonder. I use my writing to criticize institutions, particularly those of wealth and gender, as I have had the most direct experience and conflict with those. I also explore the (dare I say not-yet-exhausted?) subject of love in all of its mysteries. At times, my writing is existential. Often, it is about mothers and daughters and sisters. I write to explore the way the world contrasts and contradicts itself, as well as the interaction between nature and humanity. I’m interested in how we communicate with the rest of the world. I’m obsessed with those private moments when we think we’re alone, when the walls come down and what’s left of us is a little bit disgusting, a little impolite, and at the same time, incredibly venerable. 

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My writing is visual and interdisciplinary, involving considerations of design, presence, and aesthetic from the very beginning of the process. The work I hope to make in the future is immersive and environmental. I want to blur the lines between the story and the audience. My theatre is a living, breathing, thing that is affected and changed by each person that steps into it – be it an actor, usher, or janitor. I think that each role is collaborative and vital.

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I write with the history of the world behind me and the wonder of what’s to come. I write in celebration of everyday mysteries and in remembrance of bunk-bed sister stories. I write with hope to give the world something to see, to care about, to save.