ACTING
REEL (2023)
DUCKY (BROOKLYN COLLEGE WEASEL FEST 2023)
20 minute piece at The Brick Theater June 9 & 10, 2023
Broadway World article here
Ducky (who is part duck, of course) is trying to resist the seasonal urge to jump off of their apartment building and either fly south for the winter, or go splat on the pavement. Is this the year they finally do it? Featuring me and Suzanne Savoy*, directed by Katy Early.
Weasel Fest is a two-night extravaganza featuring brand new short works written in response to a shared prompt by Brooklyn College’s 2023 MFA Playwriting cohort. Prompted by our recent alumni playwrights, our festival of five short plays explored the theme of legacy.
MY COUSIN NELU IS NOT GAY
At The Brick Theater, March 2023
ANT Fest 2022, Ars Nova Theatre
My Cousin Nelu Is Not Gay features musings on the immigrant experience, an intimate dance with a disco ball, musings on the lesbian experience, two two-hundred-pound dogs, musings on the butch experience, and an epic yet disappointing cousin vs. cousin showdown in the space created at the ~threshold of revelation~. This is an absurdist comedy butting up against a confessional monologue. This is a bilingual play in which English clashes with Romanian and the gays wrestle the straights to take control of the stage. This is what happens when factual family history meets the stories we tell ourselves about how we grew up, or how we wish we had.
#RomeoJuliet
I played most of the characters in this raw and relevant 2-person interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet from New Rep Education and Queen Mab Productions. Considering our shared experiences of 2020, this production examined deeply the play’s themes of isolation, separation, and what sacrifices we make as we attempt to cross boundaries. (February 2021)
Hamlet
I played Laertes in Praxis Stage’s production of Hamlet. (July 2019).
