Resume
Full-Length Productions
Bury Me
DANDELION THEATRE COMPANY
Directed by Ben Kaye
July 2019
Vape Naysh
FIRST FLOOR THEATER
Directed by Cole Von Glahn
March 2020
Recent Ten-Minute Productions
The High
BROKEN NOSE THEATRE
Chicago, IL
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Directed by Lexi Saunders
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Digital Broadcast
February 2021
Ravenclaw Tower
VIOLET SURPRISE/OTHERWORLD THEATRE
Directed by Whitney Pipes
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Chicago, IL
August 2020
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MADLAB'S THEATRE ROULETTE
Columbus, OH
2019
AMERICAN BLUES THEATRE'S RIPPED: THE LIVING NEWSPAPER
Chicago, IL
2018
Neighbor
SMALL HOURS FESTIVAL
Instagram TV
2020
Development History
Pro-Am
SIDESHOW THEATRE COMPANY
Directed by Regina Victor
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Chicago, Illinois
2018 - Present
Developed for Sideshow Theatre Company's The Freshness Initiative 2018.
Included on The Kilroys List 2020.
Bury Me
Various
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San Angelo, Texas - 2015
Dallas, Texas - 2016
Topanga, California - 2016
Chicago, Illinois - 2018
Selected for a staged reading for the Region 6 American College Theatre Festival in 2015.
Runner-up for Echo Theatre's Big Shout Out 2016 and subsequently selected for a staged reading.
Selected for a staged reading by Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum through their Seedlings series in 2016.
Selected for the Reservoir reading series by Dandelion Theatre Company, which later selected Bury Me for a full production.
Synchronicity
Various
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Chicago, Illinois - 2015
Salt Lake City, Utah - 2016
Originally developed through The Writers Room with The New Coordinates in 2015, led by Evan Linder.
Selected for a staged reading through The New Coordinates in 2015.
Winner of the 2016 Davey Foundation Grant, which included a weeklong workshop and staged reading produced by Salt Lake Acting Company.
Semi-Finalist for the 2018 O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference.
The Young Ones
First Floor Theater
Directed by Cole Von Glahn
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Chicago, Illinois
2018 - Present
First drafted in 2018 during the inaugural Jackalope Playwrights Lab led by Calamity West.
Workshopped with First Floor Theater in July 2019 and January 2020.
Pizza Hut Heartbreaker
Commission Theatre Company
Directed by Lindsey Marsland
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Chicago, Illinois
2018 - Present
Developed through Commission Theatre Company's The Outset workshop and reading series in 2018.
Presented as a charity Zoom reading (for donations to directly benefit the artists involved) in March 2020.
Shitty Christians (Or, Turn to Romans 3:23)
Directed by Lindsey Marsland
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Chicago, Illinois
2019 - Present
Developed with director Lindsey Marsland for actors Joe Dougherty, Meghan Flood, and Michael Turrentine.
Selected for Prop Thtr's Church of the New Play reading series in May 2019.
Age Play
Directed by Elyse Dolan
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Chicago, Illinois
2019
Devised using The New Coordinates method with director Elyse Dolan, dramaturg Zoe Benditt, and actors Betsy Bowman, JD Caudill, Charlie Irving, and Abbas Salem.
Education
2010 - 2014
THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
B.F.A.
Norman, Oklahoma
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama (acting emphasis)
Minor in English Literature
Summa Cum Laude
Playwriting with Laura Jacqmin
2014-PRESENT
Chicago, Illinois
The Writer's Room with The New Colony with Evan Linder
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Chicago Dramatists Playwriting Essentials 1 and 2 with Dana Lynn Formby
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Jackalope Playwrights Lab with Calamity West
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Steep Theatre Company's What Moves You with Alex Lubischer
Other New Play Development
American Beauty Shop
BY DANA LYNN FORMBY
Directed by Megan Shuchman
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Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, Illinois
2016
Assistant to Director for the world premiere production.
Also built a digital dramaturgy resource, and performed script supervising responsibilities.
A Work of Art
BY ELAINE ROMERO
Directed by Henry Godinez
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Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, Illinois
2015
Script Supervisor for the world premiere production.
Look, we are breathing
BY LAURA JACQMIN
Directed by Megan Shuchman
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Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
Chicago, Illinois
2015
Script Supervisor for the world premiere production.