Essayist/Dramaturg/Researcher
Research and scholarship are crucial to all my creative processes. Some of my theoretical interests include;
- organized religion // queered impulse
- gender structures // dramatic structure
- “hysteria” in femmes, femmes who commit acts of violence against others and themselves
- systems of logic // systems of power
Read some of my work below!
Title:“TRIPLE DIMENSION SUPERSTAR”; Structure, Satisfaction, and Annie Baker’s Erotic Logic
Written for Thinkers/Makers/Dramaturgs Honors Seminar
Thesis: through a sexology and gendered lens, this essay examines the dramatic structure of annie baker’s play The Aliens. “…whereas modern U.S. theater-goers' desires have been primed to the erotic logic of the phallocentric, Aristotalian structure, Baker’s plays operate in a more tantric fashion, subverting standard masculine desires which in turn accounts for the dissatisfaction of many viewers…”
Grade: A
“Every point along the way is attended to with care and evidence and in so doing you prove yourself to be a reliable and diligent scholar.”
- Lauren Whitehead, professor/dramaturg/maker
Title: Resisting Womanhood: Horse Girls and Female Preteenhood
Written for Women who Kill Themselves and Others Honors Seminar
Thesis: “while many adult female murderers kill to regain control, the young girls in Horse Girls kill to retain it...Horse Girls is groundbreaking in the way it explores the psyche of the in-between of girlhood and womanhood and the drastic difference between the control females are allowed between those two states”
Grade: A
“Wow! This is my highest compliment. Your fluidity between theory and reading Horse Girls is a major writerly feat.”
- Carol Martin, head of the Drama Honors program at NYU