Writing
My first year out of college, I taught acting to a group of high schoolers at the theater studio I went to growing up. I was constantly inspired by my students’ talent and intelligence and passion, and constantly frustrated at the lack of good material for the girls. There were certainly roles out there, but never enough, and few that I thought were a match for their talent. I soon began thinking, “Why don’t I just do it myself?”, and started work on what would become my first full-length play, Brutal.
The purpose of my work is to create authentic, heartwarming, and nuanced stories about the lives of women and teenage girls. Many of the narratives about women boil down to pain and suffering, or gloss over their imperfections in order for them to appear “empowered.” The reality lies in the middle, and it is in this messy middle that my characters live and grow. I want to not only create great roles for young women and girls, but to create stories that they can relate to and see themselves in.
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Brutal
Six teenage girls and one older sister get together for a COVID Halloween party. As the night progresses, tensions build and telling the truth becomes harder and harder to avoid; long-held secrets aren’t so easy to keep when you’re finally together in person. Bombs are dropped, friendships are tested, and, well…things get brutal.
The Last Girls at Longbourn
With three sisters now married and gone, Kitty Bennet doesn’t really know who she is, but she knows three things. She’s supposed to find a husband, she’s impossibly bored, and Mary, her only sister still at home, doesn’t like her very much. In an attempt to impress the newest bachelor in town (and to combat boredom), she decides to find a passion, and along the way, she finds love for her sister and for herself.
Lydia Wickham, Teenaged Widow
Another Pride and Prejudice sequel…with a twist. Seventeen-year-old Lydia Wickham is in domestic bliss, newly married to her handsome (and-near-thirty-year-old) husband, George. She quickly discovers, however, that being a wife isn’t all it was cracked up to be.