About

I’m an oral storyteller working across theater, performance, and divination practices. I’m from East Tennessee and have been based in NYC since 2014.

I spent much of my teens and twenties focused on making theater. I started out as a stage actor, and slowly moved towards doing more ensemble-based experimental theater and dance theater. (and some puppetry). I’ve performed in a lot of nontraditional venues and DIY spaces, as well as various NYC theaters including Dixon Place, La Mama ETC, the Tank, the Alchemical Theater Laboratory, BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Bushwick Starr, Theater for the New City, Jersey City Theater Center, Columbia Stages, and the Signature Theater.

I grew up immersed in oral storytelling practices within my family and at my church. Telling stories was something I kept doing through my teens and twenties in informal settings (house shows, community events, etc.), but I never considered it to be Real Art. Eventually in my mid-late twenties I decided to invite this practice back into the core of my work as a performer, and I started making theater projects that centered it. The original work I was making at that time dealt with themes of grief, ghosts, Appalachian heritage, whiteness, and colonialism. There was also a gay Jesus moment.

I’ve done a little directing, mostly of my own work, and also as a co-director for Drew Sensue-Weinstein’s Variations on a Panic Attack, which was presented at Leimay’s SOAK festival, and later at JACK, in 2018.

The past few years I’ve been more focused on curating and producing. I host a performance series out of my home which features work-in-process presentations of plays, short films, dance, music, performance art, and puppetry. I’m currently working on putting up a multi-day festival and community performance project with support from the MAP Fund. I’ve also been reflecting on what an adaptive relationship with art making—that is responsive (rather than reactive) to capitalism—might look like.

I earn most of my income from seasonal farm work, and am a proud member of the United Farm Workers union. I also have an astrology practice through which I use myths and symbols to help folks weave meaningful stories about their own lives.

I care a lot about sustaining networks of mutual support and making space for artists and activists to do their thing.

I welcome invitations to collaborate.