In my course “Creating Children’s Theatre” my Saint Leo University students engaged in discussions focused on childhood development, pedagogical theory, and playmaking strategies for young audiences.

For their capstone project, I wrote The Cornbread Kid for them to perform—meeting their goals and capabilities.

The Cornbread Kid will be available for licensing by Pioneer Drama Services (Spring 2026).

As a Community Engagement instructor with Straz Center for the Performing Arts, I taught theatre to the school-age residents at Metropolitan Ministries.

In the spring of 2025, I guided the teen group in devising, building, and performing two original one-act plays. (A Wolf’s Tale and Once Upon a Leprechaun) Both are ridiculously good.

Lyric Opera of Chicago commissioned me to write the script/book for a brand new musical: one that I’d write alongside an artistic team and in collaboration with Tellin’ Tales Theatre.

Together, we developed Freedom OUT OF ORDER, an interview-based concept musical.

This collaboration led to more theatre-making: a touring children's version of the musical and Always Greener, a full-length musical.

Hillsborough Community College’s Now on View Festival is fabulous! It provides grants to various artists to create free, interdisciplinary, and accessible art for the people of Tampa.

In winter 2025, I was a selected artist. I wrote and directed the site-specific play, Ybor Interrupted. This immersive comedy took place in the historic Kress Building.

Ybor Interrupted was both a performance and a community conversation about historical fact and fiction, gentrification, and narrative perspective.

When COVID shut down traditional theatre, I co-wrote and directed a sci-fi comedy podcast.

Working with our producer (Amy Thorstensen), other amazing playwrights, and TV writers, we created 16 interconnected episodes with feminist, queer representation.

I’m currently curating and editing a written anthology for Second Site. Site Lines is a collection of selected plays and essays from the collective’s history of creating theatre in Chicago.

Site Lines offers a comprehensive look into the ways that site-inspired theatre serves as a creative practice and a community-building tool.