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SELECT PLAYS

As a playwright/director, her work has been seen at and/or supported by development, fellowships, and/or writers groups through Roundabout Theater Company (Space Jam 2025), The Old Globe (Community Voices), Dramatist Guild Foundation, Ensemble Studio Theatre (Los Angeles), LAFPI (Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative), the Ignite Project, Soho Playhouse (open mic poetry), New York City Center (reading space), Atwater Village Theatre, and much more. Her work has been recognized by the Playwrights Foundation/Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She is an associate member of SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society), and a member of Broadway Women’s Alliance, Maestra Music as a lyricist, Rise Theatre, the Playwrights Center, and the Dramatist Guild.

Mud-Caked Validation & Salt Air

After getting out of a callous situation and being emotionally spilled, split open, and shredded, Genevieve embarks on a nonlinear healing journey (both emotionally and athletically) to regain self-ownership. Meanwhile, Vanessa, pregnant and widowed, does everything in her control to find a central calmness in her body to nourish life in the face of loss, exploring the multi-faceted, complex layers of whether or not grief and perfectionism can co-exist. This play examines all the complex different alternatives we can become (both the painful and beautiful ones, and all the ones in between) when scraped by the remnant of abused power.

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*play form of debut novel, Mud-Caked Validation & Salt Air

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All is Told by What We Hold

After experiencing an early first trimester miscarriage, an array of submerged, internalized, complex, intersectional emotions spills out of Gianna; she channels it all into coaching. Meanwhile, her wife Toni, an art curator who represents sculptors, struggles to contend with how her artists' work is often spoken for, instead of letting the art speak. 

 

Through paralleling the art world and sports world, All is Told by What We Hold dives into how we are taught to inherently desire dominance, and explores what environments look and feel like when no singular person desires or seeks power; this play asks: do the environments we’re in shape us, do we shape the environments, or are both akin to one another; can we responsibly curate environments that form us, push us, expand us for the better? And underneath it all is a tender story about queer motherhood.

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Perishable Skills on Window Sills

Karter is a stellar collegiate athlete who is experiencing a disconnect in her sport as she tries to regain a sense of ownership over her own body, while Finley and Avery grapple with metabolizing the tough reality that reaching the absolute top of their game is not met with the same future as their baseball counterparts. Perishable Skills on Window Sills is built on characters who use humor as a deflection to cover their vulnerability.

Upheave into a Slidecase

A dark-comedy/drama that follows Skylar, a kickass, sardonic yet incorruptibly loving college student who is frustrated with the lack of accessibility, particularly in the NYC public transportation system, so she sets out to code apps that will make her day-to-day more accessible.

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Upheave into a Slidecase is a play that examines how our world was built and reimagines what it would look like if infrastructure and society was initially built accessibly.

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...my arms are open open open but where are you?

A poetically fragmented rumination of maternal healing.​

 

Weaving through the course of about 25 weeks, some scenes taking place days after others, some taking place weeks or months after, my arms are open, open, open... but where are you? dives into the sporadic nature of a mother's grieving process. 

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