CURRENT PROJECTS

Wound to Heal - Writer, Executive Producer

Short Film

In pre-production

www.woundtoheal.com

How to Get Fired - Writer, Actor

Solo Show

Performed at Fillet of Solo 2016

Currently developing as ensemble-based play

Scrambled Marbles - Writer, Actor, Director

Web Series

In pre-production

Eminent Scepter - Writer, Puppeteer

www.instagram/eminent_scepter

PREVIOUS WORK

Solo Shows

Writer, Actor

Fillet of Solo Festival - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016

All for One Theatre, SoloLab, NYC - November 2014

Official Selection, United Solo Theatre Festival, NYC - November 2014

The Side Project Annual Storytelling Festival - 2012, 2013, 2015

Chicago Fringe Festival - 2011, 2012

Playwright

The New Colony’s Writers’ Room - 2016

One-Minute Play Festival - 2015, 2016, 2017

Bitte - Commissioned by Knife & Fork Theatre Company

We Live Here—Wrote one play in a collection of 10-minute plays about Chicago produced by Theatre Seven of Chicago, nominated for Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Work - 2011

EDUCATION

COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO

MFA Creative Writing, 1994–2000

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

BA Rhetoric/Liberal Arts, 1988–1992

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO GRAHAM SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES

Editing Certificate Program, September 2004

VAGABOND SCHOOL OF THE ARTS

Advanced Scene Study (x5), Intermediate Scene Study

CHICAGO DRAMATISTS

Playwriting I, Playwriting II, Scene Shop, The Blueprint—Building Your Play, Play Development Workshop, Directing New Work

THE NEO-FUTURISTS

Intro to Too Much Light (x3), Unreproducible Theatre

WORK EXPERIENCE

THE SIDE PROJECT - 2012—2016

Curator, Annual Storytelling Festival

2ND STORY ARTS COLLECTIVE - 2006—2013

Director of Story Development - 2009—2011

Editor-In-Chief, 2D Magazine - 2007—2008

Director of Story Cycle - 2006—2009

Curator Live Music Series - 2006—2013

Curator Special Events - 2006—2013