Co-producer for Hard Knock's film Serpentine Pink

Screenwriter for the film Serpentine Pink, produced by Hard Knock Productions

Instruct BFA/AFA acting, filmmaking, screenwriting and animation students through introductory courses on dramatic literature, theatre history, screenwriting analysis, comparative literature and creative writing. We navigate through the process of comparative/complex dramaturgical/theatrical, cinematic and literary analysis and critical thinking, as well as research essay composition through interactive lectures, creative activities, reflective writing, and dramatic readings/performances.

I write visceral, poetic worlds inspired by Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's concept of duende. My USC thesis play My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit, a contemporary sequel to Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, was part of the 2010 MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center and the National New Play Network’s Showcase of New Plays before receiving its world premiere at Miami’s New Theatre in 2013. My First, My Fist has been taught in classrooms at UC Davis and The Theatre School at DePaul University. My Cain and Abel story set to the Blues - The Dirt and Its Harp in Her Mouth - was produced at OC Centric’s 2012 New Play Festival, and made the OC Examiner’s Best New Plays of Orange County list. My sexy desert noir Serpentine Pink was produced as a part of L.A.’s Son of Semele’s Company Creation Festival, and had its world premiere at James Madison University in 2016. The cinematic version of my screenplay adaptation - produced by Hard Knock Productions - premiered at L.A. Film Fest's Independent Film Showcase in 2022. I also wrote the screenplay for Ron Hanks’ short film Dirt Eaters which premiered at Cannes’ 2015 Court Métrage, and my short play Sexy Popcorn was selected for/published in The Best of Playground 2015 – Los Angeles. My haunted mansion riff of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts – Lecherous Honey – had its world premiere production with Cock and Bull in 2016. My company By The Souls Of Our Feet and I are currently finishing the conjuring of a new primitive opera based on the Hecuba myth, collaborating with O-Lan Jones of Overtone Industries. The first half had a workshop production at Son of Semele Theatre, and will be produced in its entirety at USC's Visions & Voices in April 2023. A monologue from my most recent play Christine – a feminist response to Russian satirist Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose – was featured as a part of Cock and Bull’s Sessions/Isolation 2020 – a virtual festival of works/survival guide for isolation during the pandemic.

Guest playwright at JMU's School of Theatre and Dance - I worked with students and faculty as they workshopped and produced the world premiere of my play Serpentine Pink. I also sat in on/participated in playwriting classes and post-show discussions.

Assistant Instructor to Professor of Theatre History as well as Theory of Comedy. Duties included creating and leading play discussion workshops with undergraduate theatre students, grading papers and assignments on assigned plays, formatting final exams

Collecting research for production reference, compiling actor packets, acting as creative consultant/textual resource for theatrical productions, composing articles for theatre programs, designing study guides, creating lobby displays, leading post-play discussions, conducting playwright and agent correspondence, aiding artistic director in season planning

Research assistant and dramaturgical aid to Head of Playwriting at The Theatre School at DePaul University