Cinderella and Frankenstein's Monster Are Dead
Role: Producer, Director, Playwright
Production History:
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2026 August, Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland
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2025 May, Brighton Fringe, United Kingdom
Links:
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Ed Fringe Reviews: Theatre and Tonic, Binge Fringe, Disobedient Magazine
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Brighton Reviews: Theatre in Brighton, Brighton and Hove News, Sound Beyond Curtain
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Interviews: Theatre Weekly, Funny Women, Get Your Coat On, Monologues and Musicals, Edinburgische Dramaturgie
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Essay: Fringe of Colour "Responses"
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Podcast: In Conversation with Tourists
Synopsis
A gothic fairytale for the culturally confused. A Chinese exchange student at an American high school sees herself in Frankenstein’s monster—stitched together and out of place. When the drama club stages Cinderella, she auditions to prove her worth, only to find herself longing for the Mandarin rhymes she once sang with pride. As foreign stories glitch into nightmares, she realizes: both the princess and the monster are dead. She’s neither. Critically acclaimed at 2025 Brighton Fringe: 'raw, eye-opening' ★★★★ (Theatre In Brighton), 'refreshing and linguistically aware take on identity construction' ★★★★ (Sound Behind Curtain). Followed by a Fringe Theatre Award-winning run at Edinburgh Fringe: 'affecting, literary and thought-provoking' ★★★★ (Binge Fringe), 'grace and power' ★★★★ (Theatre and Tonic), 'beautiful storytelling' ★★★★ (Disobedient Magazine).
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"Only one of those two were saved. But both of them are dead now."
VOLCANO RUNNERS
Role: Director, Playwright
Production History:
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April 2026, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, New York
Synopsis
When a volcanic eruption brings twin sisters raised in an abusive home back together, they are forced to reckon with a past where love and violence were hard to tell apart. Inspired by a trip to Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy, this play draws parallels between living on a volcano and growing up in an abusive household, asking the question: Why don’t you leave?
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"I laughed when you gave me the rock before you left. She gave me an entire volcano. And you gave me a piece of it. You’re really like her sometimes."
THE RHINO
Role: Director
Production History:
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Oct 2025, The Shop Theatre, NYU Tisch Drama Stage — Student Work
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Synopsis
When a divorcing family loses the fortune buried beneath their money tree, they have one week to recover it—an ordeal of sleepless nights that traps them inside their collapsing home. As the walls close in, each spirals into obsession: a boy who builds muscle over memory, a girl who becomes her puppet, a mother who hangs up on the final call, a father who cannot dream, and a kind of love that lies.
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"If I call you on the home phone, will you come home?"
Philomela
Role: Playwright
Directed by Kaitlyn Wigmore
Production History:
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2024 December, Rhapsody Riot Play Festival, New York
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Synopsis
At a bachelorette party, a bride asks her best friend and maid of honor to examine a scar on her tongue. A shocking discovery sets her off on visions of nightingales and a hazy memory of a middle-school kiss shared with her now-fiancé, stirring long-buried feelings and opening old wounds that make wedding day even more complicated. This queer and absurd solo performance reimagines Greek myth through a contemporary lens.
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"Don’t be afraid. You don’t have another tongue to lose this time."
Rain Cycle
Role: Director
Written by Alex Isbell
Production History:
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2024 December, Broke People Play Festival, New York
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Synopsis
When a daughter returns home on the eve of a storm to convince her dying mother to leave, they are forced to confront their opposing perspectives on life and death, and the decisions that made their relationship fraught from the very start.
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"You’ve lived a million lives without me. You’ll live a million more."
Tide
Role: Director, Playwright
Production History:
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2024 August, Greenside George Street Lime Studio, Edinburgh Fringe, Scotland
Links:
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Review: CGO Institute
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News: Broadway World
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Magazine: The List | Femi Fringe
Synopsis
Tide follows the love story of two girls named Cordelia and Luna who join a silent retreat near the ocean only to realize its problematic nature. They find comfort in each other, exploring new connections after their shared trauma of sexual assault and familial loss. The stage is a blank canvas with three bottles of red, blue, and yellow paint. As the story unfolds, two actors smear it everywhere, transforming it into ocean, moon, beach, dandelion, honey, gold, tear, blood…All of this leads up to a forbidden kiss, but with paint. Tide’s two-week run at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe received glowing audience responses, described as “tender,” “nuanced,” “sincere,” “a very gentle duet of lost and unrealized love,” and “a slow but graceful drama.”
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"There was the moon, and then there was the ocean. There was a magical attraction between them, but they could never get together, or there would be flood everywhere."
Arachne
Role: Director, Playwright
Production History:
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2024 May, NYU Production Lab Incubator Series, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, New York
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Synopsis
After her mother’s funeral, Arachne returns to her childhood home, where a spider hiding in the cupboard unlocks memories of her mother’s relentless knitting lessons, once more associated with punishment than love. This solo show retells classical myth through the lens of a child abuse survivor.
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"You were hanging there from your web. Not making any sound. Simply weaving."
