Theatre
I program, cast, produce, and direct extensively with Dragonfly Multicultural Arts Center, the small nonprofit theatre I co-founded in 2014. We perform classics rethought for a new generation alongside new, devised, and less-produced works. We pride ourselves on diverse casts, sensitive direction, and community impact. During quarantine, we’ve produced weekly Zoom shows.
For more on my directing work, please see my resume on this page.
Images above include Cyrano! (photos by Anna Paone), Romeo and Juliet (photos by Ernie Agtarap/Metuchen Living), Death in San Francisco (photos by Paul Nadler and Anand Rao), In the Next Room, or the vibrator play, Gormenghast, and The Government Inspector (photos by Paul Nadler).
Film
I studied film, specifically screenwriting, at the University of Michigan, where I created a narrative thesis, “The Leaders and the Rest,” about a young Gerald Ford butting heads with a female activist during his time at the school. I always say I get the urge to create a film every few years. I made a super-low-budget web series called “The Year of the Phoenix” immediately after graduating. My short film “Our Lady of the ‘80s,” about a millennial transported to 1980s New York City, premiered on July 31, 2021 in Brooklyn, and I’m currently submitting it wherever I can.
I enjoy screenwriting and can provide several samples of both feature and short-film screenwriting. My most recent project is Booklove, a fantasy about a former child actress who is magically transported into the world of the YA film in which she starred ten years ago, along with the jaded actor who played her father. Dragonfly recently performed Booklove as a three-part Zoom reading, and you can see week one here, week two here, and week three here.
I recently wrote, produced, and starred in “In Metuchen,” a distilled Act I of a feature I wrote, and am currently editing the footage.
