Hello

Originally from Minnesota, I am a freelance theater artist currently living

and working in Baltimore. ​I have directed, produced and stage

managed throughout the Midwest including Cedar Rapids, Minneapolis,

and Milwaukee. Since moving to Baltimore in 2017, I have worked with

theaters like the Acme Corporation, Single Carrot, Chesapeake

Shakespeare Company, Silver Spring Stage, Baltimore Rock Opera

Society, The Strand and more. I am also a co-founder

and Theater Producer of Truepenny Projects, a small and independent

arts organization in Baltimore. 

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The worlds I build onstage are remarkably uncanny, allowing audiences the freedom to see themselves in the story without being forced into it. I want my art to be entertaining and grounded in strong storytelling and theatrical craft, while resisting being overly cerebral or high-concept. My goal is to reconnect people with their own bodies and emotions, to remind them of the raw, powerful experience of being human.

All of my plays are metatheatrical. I like to draw attention to my medium's nature rather than trying to fool the audience that this is an illusion of reality. Theater is at its most magical, I believe, when it celebrates its own illusion, when we are aware of the performance and yet allow ourselves to believe in it completely.

I’m particularly drawn to plays that feature animals, puppetry, or stage blood. These elements are not requirements, but they connect us to something visceral and tangible while simultaneously pulling us into a world of shared make-believe. In film, death, animals, and other raw realities are captured so literally that they can create distance. Because it’s real, it becomes someone else’s story. Theater, on the other hand, asks us to lean in. It invites us to suspend disbelief and actively participate, to fill in the gaps with our own memories, feelings, and imagination. This act of co-creation makes live performance deeply personal. When an actor embodies an animal, when a puppeteer breathes life into a puppet, or when a blood effect goes just right, the audience is reminded that they are both fully aware of the artifice and yet utterly swept away by it.

I fell in love with theater at a very young age. The performances at the children’s theater that my parents brought me to were larger than life. They were deeply magical and I was utterly in love with these fantasy worlds that felt created just for me. I don’t remember watching them from my seat, I remember these productions as though I was right there on stage with them. After the performances, I cried and ripped at my parents as they tried to take me home. 

At the end of the day, I am just trying to recreate that magic that I saw as a child. I want to be swept away.

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