In “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.

The Cornbread Kid is available for licensing by Pioneer Drama Services.

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)

Lyric Opera of Chicago commissioned me to write the script/book for a brand new musical in collaboration with Tellin’ Tales Theatre. Together, we developed Freedom OUT OF ORDER, an interview-based concept musical.

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

In winter 2025, I was a selected artist for Hillsborough Community College’s Now on View Festival. I wrote and directed the site-specific play, Ybor Interrupted. This immersive comedy took place in the historic Kress Building.

This play was a performance and a conversation about historical fact and fiction, gentrification, and narrative perspective.

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

Site Lines investigates the ways that site-inspired theatre serves as a creative theatre practice as well as a community-building tool.