I’ve been awarded a three-week residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Each year, the Center receives in excess of 5,000 applications and awards approximately 400 residencies. The Vermont Studio Center was founded by artists in 1984 to provide studio residencies in an inclusive, international community, honoring creative work as the communication of spirit through form. The Center’s buildings, many of them historic Vermont landmarks, overlook the Gihon River in the northern Green Mountains. For four decades, the Center’s residency program has offered residents an opportunity to engage with global creative communities. The Center invites Visiting Writers and Artists from around the world to visit during the residencies to mentor residents, present readings, facilitate craft talks, and give lectures that are open to the public.
I'm a Finalist with Boise Contemporary Theater's Playwright Festival
“Brad Pitt’s My Bitch” is a finalist with the Boise Contemporary Theater’s annual Playwrights Festival. Playwrights who are accepted into the Festival receive a stipend, transportation and lodging, and a week-long workshop of their play. The workshop includes a director and full cast, and culminates in a staged reading on BCT's Mainstage.
Past BIPOC Festival Playwrights include Juan Jose Alfonso, Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters, Debra Ann Byrd, Jeanne Sakata, Vinecia Coleman, Jason Tseng, Novid Parsi, LaDarrion Williams, Herb Newsome, Habib Yazdi, Kamila Boga, Luma Jasim, Prince Gomolvilas, and Lisa Langford.
"Brad Pitt's My Bitch" Awarded Grant from Bechdel Project
Last year, NYC-based Bechdel Project awarded a grant for the development of “Brad Pitt’s My Bitch.” The grant ensured that the play could reach new heights by funding its research, a workshop and a rewrite. I am so grateful and honored to be a member of the Project’s FIFE Fellowship, a writers-led collective. FIFE stands for Feminism is for Everybody and draws its inspiration from the writing of bell hooks. The multi-year fellowship supports the creation of new work for the stage or screen. The fellowship also provides space in Brooklyn as well as logistical, dramaturgical and productional support. https://www.bechdelproject.org/home/development/fife
"Brad Pitt's My Bitch" is an O'Neill Semi-Finalist
My play, “Brad Pitt’s My Bitch”, is a semi-finalist for the 2025 National Playwrights Conference! This year, the O’Neill received over 1600 submissions from which they select 15% to advance to the Semi-Finalist round.
The Launchpad of American Theater, the O’Neill is the country’s preeminent organization dedicated to the development of new works and new voices for the stage. Founded in 1964, the O'Neill has launched some of the most important voices and works in American theater and has revolutionized the way new work is developed.
The O’Neill has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and thousands more emerging artists. Writers, directors, puppeteers, singers, students, and audiences alike take their first steps in exploring, revising, and understanding their work and the potential of the theater they help create. All focus remains on the writer and script: Performers work with simply rendered sets and costumes, script in hand, revealing for the first time the magic of a new play or musical, puppetry piece, or cabaret act.
Scores of projects developed at the O’Neill have gone on to full production at theaters around the world. Work first performed at the O'Neill has gone on to regional theaters, Broadway, film, and television. Students and professionals who have honed their skills at the O'Neill can be seen in these venues every day across the nation and world.
Seattle Public Theater Announces 2024 Semi- Finalists
Seattle Public Theater has selected my play as one of 30 semi-finalists from its pool of 350 submissions. Ultimately, five plays will be selected for its Distillery New Works Festival, a celebration of theater and an opportunity for playwrights to gain valuable feedback on new work. Each play in the festival receives a live reading by a cast of professional actors. The readings conclude with a discussion of the play with the playwright, giving writers the chance to receive feedback from Seattle audiences and providing a platform for audiences to help shape new works in process.
"REALITY CHECK" MAKES SEMI-FINALIST ROUND AT SANTA MONICA, CA THEATER
As one of 30 semi-finalists, Reality Check was selected from over 400 submissions to the New Works Festival at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre. Since 1946, The Santa Monica Theatre Guild has been a source of entertainment, inspiration and education for residents of Santa Monica, the Westside and Los Angeles. The Guild offesr a full season of six musical and non-musical plays with a subscription series, single-show and group reservations available, as well as student and senior discounted admissions. The Santa Monica Theatre Guild is a 501(c)(3) [non-profit] organization and is the recipient of grants from the California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Santa Monica Arts Commission.
The goal of the Festival is to welcome a wide range of genres and styles of plays. The New Works Festival will occur September - October 2023. Playwrights whose works are selected will be offered optional opportunities to meet at informal Playwrights’ Gatherings to be held this summer prior to the festival.
I'm A Semi-Finalist with Left Edge Theatre
I’m a semi-finalist for Left Edge Theatre’s 2023 festival. Held in July each year in Santa Rosa, CA, the festival celebrates playwrights from around the world. In addition to the festival, Left Edge produces a year-round season of plays in its own Studio Theatre. Founded in 2015, the company distinguishes itself by producing contemporary plays written within the past decade - most of which are Sonoma County premieres.
I'm A Semi-Finalist with NYC-based Theater, Normal Ave
I’ve advanced to the semi-finalist round with Normal Ave for their festival of new plays, NAPseries. The festival will take place in October 2023 in NYC. Playwrights will receive a reading, rehearsal space, a creative team and cast. 550 plays were submitted and four will ultimately be selected.
Great Plains Theatre Conference Selects 12 Playwrights for 2023 Program
I’m delighted to a be one of twelve playwrights selected for The New Play Conference. Founded in 2006 by Metropolitan Community College, the Conference helps to develop a group of new plays that are selected from a pool of around 1000 submissions. During the Conference, local and national playwrights, actors, directors, dramaturgs, designers and Omaha community members, share a week of stories, workshops, readings, meals, performances and celebrations. All public conference events are free to attend.
Theatre WorkShops, Luncheon Panels and daily PlayLab Series readings comprise the foundation of the Conference.
Dramaturgy is provided by national dramaturgs for each playwright, to providing support before, during and after the Conference
PlayFest is our season of new works and seeks to give voice to the stories that have the power to unite and inspire diverse audiences.
Design Wing brings five emerging designers from across the country to become immersed in the play development from a visual perspective.
Young Dramatists Fellowship Program provides local high school playwrights with access to some of the country’s top plays and playwrights.
GPTC invites and welcomes a number of distinguished and nationally known playwrights, directors and actors each year. These guest artists are in place to nurture and mentor new and emerging playwrights and Conference attendees through various workshops, PlayLab feedback sessions and seminars.
Signature Theatre Selects "Dharma" for 2023 Season
My play, Dharma, has been selected for Signature Theatre's 2023 season of SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Readings. Tickets can be reserved at SigTheatre.org starting 2 weeks prior to each reading.
"We had a record number of submissions for the SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Readings series this year, and I was blown away by the talent of the writers in the DMV area," said Anika Chapin, Signature's new Director of Artistic Development. "The three plays chosen are all gems - funny, moving, and unique - and I can't wait to share them with Signature audiences.
SigWorks: Monday Night New Play Readings is an opportunity for playwrights, actors, directors, and patrons to explore new plays in a fun and informal environment. Each reading will include a post-show Q&A with the playwright and director. Over the last six years, four plays developed as part of the SigWorks program have gone on to full productions at Signature Theatre.