Below you will find materials that offer insight into my ongoing creative work. First and immediately below is a set of recent collaborations in new play development and access dramaturgy. Second, you will find a portfolio using the 2021-2022 season to sample the range of dramaturgical labor.
Please note that you will need to click hyperlinks that open new windows to access materials. If you’d like to collaborate, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Recent and Ongoing
Creative & Access Dramaturgy
work in the 2024-2025 season
a new musical by joey contreras
In Pieces is a love story about the people you don’t end up with.
Directed by Rebecca Aparicio and Emily Maltby
Ongoing script development and Fall 2024 Workshop. You can learn more at the website for In Pieces or stream music from the deluxe edition of the album below.
Press Coverage of the NML Workshop at Michigan State University on WLIX 10 and The State News.
2025 Great Plains New Play festival Season Season Selection + Dramaturgy
For the 2024 Great Plains Season, I served as one of three artists on the final season selection committee and collaborated with playwrights as a new works dramaturg.
Seven Days in the Garden. Addie Barnhart, dir. Great Plains Theatre Commons. Omaha, NE. May-June 2025.
#’s. Ron Zank, dir. Great Plains Theatre Commons. Omaha, NE. May-June 2025.
come straight home. Mackenzie Dehmer, dir. Great Plains Theatre Commons. Omaha, NE. May-June 2025.
IN PIECES
John Proctor is the Villain
By Kimberly Bellflower
Directed by Steve H. Broadnax, III. for Penn State CentreStage.
2024 Great Plains New Play festival Season Season Selection + Creative Dramaturgy + Access Consulting
For the 2024 Great Plains Season, I served as one of three artists on the final season selection committee and collaborated with playwrights as a new works dramaturg. I also worked as Access Dramaturg for the company, producing an accessibility white paper for future company success.
All the Emilies in All the Universes. Laura Lippman, dir. Great Plains Theatre Commons. Omaha, NE. May-June 2024.
Pivot. Ron Zank, dir. Great Plains Theatre Commons. Omaha, NE. May-June 2024.
Vampire Panic!. Addie Barnhart, dir. Great Plains Theatre Commons. Omaha, NE. May-June 2024.
Dramaturgy Portfolio
violet, Millikin university
For the Spring 2022 Production of Tesori and Crawley’s Violet at Millikin University, I worked as the production dramaturg.
Provided rehearsal and tech feedback and offered in-person consultations with the cast and creative team.
Compiled a dramaturgy packet with background and a running glossary for the company.
Created a video installation designed for lobby displays positioned as patrons entered the theatre. It also features original rehearsal photography.
EXPLORE VIOLET’S DRAMATURGY PACKET
VIEW THE HORIZONTAL LOBBY INSTALLATION VIEW THE VERTICAL LOBBY INSTALLATION
A SELECTION OF DRAMATURGY MATERIALS FROM THE 2021-2022 SEASONTeenage Dick, Woolly mammoth theatre in co-production with The Huntington & Pasadena Playhouse
My essay, “‘There’s Speech of Our Bodies’: Returning to the Theatre with Teenage Dick,” appeared in the playbill at Woolly Mammoth Theatre.
“‘There’s Speech of Our Bodies’: Returning to the Theatre with Teenage Dick” also appeared alongside its co-productions at The Huntington Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse.
As a part of my work in public programming for this production, I helped organize and moderate a public talk, “Shakespeare, Disability, and Performance,” with scholars Katherine Schaap Williams (U Toronto) and Justin Shaw (Clark U), which was digitally available at Woolly and The Huntington.
READ “THERE’S SPEECH OF OUR BODIES”: RETURNING TO THE THEATRE WITH TEENAGE DICK
La casa de la laguna, Gala hispanic theatre
Over the course of the 20-21 and 21-22 seasons, I worked as a dramaturg and script consultant for the world premiere production of La Casa de la Laguna at Gala Hispanic Theatre in Washington, D.C. The Helen-Hayes Awards Recommended production, adapted by Caridad Svich and directed by Rebecca Aparicio, ran from February 5, 2022 - February 22, 2022.
Proposed developmental feedback on multiple versions of the script.
Provided rehearsal feedback and guidance for the company in season planning conversation.
she kills monsters, University of maryland, baltimore county
For the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Spring 2022 production of Qui Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters, directed by Danielle Drakes, I was the access dramaturg/disability consultant.
Offered rehearsal feedback that impacted the direction of character development, blocking, and design.
Facilitated exploratory creative conversations about the production design and performance of disability.
Mediated cast conversations about how to ethically approach the script’s representations of disability, queerness, and trauma
