PLAYS
#ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence
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Every Fifteen Minutes: Commissioned by the artistic producer of #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence to write a through line piece connecting and weaving together the eight winners of the 2022 #ENOUGH contest. Produced as a part of #ENOUGH's Nationwide Reading (58 readings in 29 states) and had its world premiere produced by Roundabout Theater Company's Youth Ensemble at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Forthcoming publication by Playscripts in the #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence 2022 Anthology .
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The ABCs of Gun Violence: 2021 #ENOUGH Semifinalist. Performed in front of The White House as a part of 2022 #MeetWithManny protests.
International Human Rights
Art Festival 2021 Youth Fellow
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Served as a 2021 Youth Fellow for the International Human Rights Art Festival
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Developed and orchestrated “Our Rising Voices,” an international youth playwriting festival, with the goal of celebrating youth literary creativity, amplifying youth perspectives on social justice, and fostering youth engagement in human rights advocacy through drama
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Composed original poetry and prose pieces focused on themes of human rights, published in IHRAF Publishes throughout the course of the year
Touch Screen
Touch Screen is a series of seven intertwined vignettes bookended by a prologue and epilogue reflecting on the complexities of adolescent relationships over technology in the midst of a COVID-19 landscape. It utilizes the obstacles of socially-distanced performance to create a relevant piece exploring what it looks like to fall in love and come of age in a virtual realm. A full-length play.
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Full production - Governor Thomas Johnson High School Stage, Maryland (Spring 2021)
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The Blank Theatre 29th Annual Young Playwrights Festival: Semifinalist (Spring 2021)
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Playwright, assistant director, and conceptual designer: Full production - Grove School Theater, Connnecticut (Spring 2020)
The Surly Bonds of Earth
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Staged reading - Le Jardin Academy, Kailua, Hawai'i (Spring 2022)
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Production - The Kinkaid School, Houston, Texas (Spring 2022)
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Staged reading - Columbia Basin College, Pasco, Washington (Spring 2022)
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The Blank Theatre 28th Annual Young Playwrights Festival: Winner (Spring 2020)
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Virtual professional production - Blank Theatre Young Playwrights Festival, Los Angeles (Summer 2020)
Praying to Oreos
A young girl wrestles with morality and faith when she is diagnosed with a chronic pain disorder that requires intense treatment. A full-length play.
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Commissioned by Kailua Onstage Arts Founder and Artistic Director
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Podcast recording - Playbuilders of Hawai’i Play Festival (Summer 2020)
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Playbuilders of Hawai’i Play Festival: 2nd Place for Best Youth Play (Spring 2020)
Dear Mother Earth.
Love, Your Children.
A virtual dramatic artistic piece honoring the role of planet Earth in uniting humanity despite differences. Part theatrical work, part spoken word poem, it is both a celebration of our Mother and a call to action performed by a cast comprised on seven young people from around the globe. A ten-minute piece.
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Writer, director, and editor: Digital production - Future Coalition Earth Day Live, the largest online mass mobilization in history (Spring 2020)
Big
A young girl overcomes negative body image and finds empowerment through a spoken word poetry performance. A 10-minute play.
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Writopia Lab 11th Annual Worldwide Plays Festival: 1st Place, High School Division (Spring 2020)
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Audio production by New York City professionals - Writopia Lab Worldwide Plays Festival, NYC (Spring 2020)
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Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Young Playwrights Festival: Top Finalist and Guest Playwright (Spring 2020)
How To Help Your Cow Deliver in the Midst of a Pandemic
A monologue exploring the thoughts and emotions that tie a mother and daughter together over distance.
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Virtual production - Theatre is the Cure, a global virtual theatrical event in response to COVID-19 (Spring 2020)
The Last Straw
A metaphorical exploration of the domestic emotional abuse that so many have experienced during quarantining. A 10-minute play.
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Virtual play reading - Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University School Shelter in Plays (Spring 2020)
Thoughts on the Size of the Universe
Thoughts on the Size of the Universe explores sexuality, culture, and our place in the cosmos through the eyes of two teenage girls in a rooftop conversation. The girls begin to see the galaxy from a wider perspective as they discover for themselves the beautiful balance between innocence and maturity, between identity and diversity, and between the now and the future. A one-act play.
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Playwright, producer, and director: Full production - O'ahu Fringe Festival (January 2019)
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The Blank Theatre 27th Annual Young Playwrights Festival: Semifinalist (Spring 2019)
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Scholastic Art and Writing Awards: Silver Key - Dramatic Script (Spring 2019)
Birdman
A one-man show based on a series of interviews with the Kailua Birdman, an eccentric local figure whose passion for training pigeons is a manifestation of his belief in the power of connection to nature. A one-act, one-man play.
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Play reading - Playbuilders of Hawai’i Play Festival (Spring 2019)
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Playbuilders of Hawai’i Play Festival: 3rd Place for Best Play (Spring 2019)
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Playbuilders of Hawai’i Play Festival: Audience Favorite Runner-Up (Spring 2019)
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Playbuilders of Hawai’i Play Festival: Special Young Playwright Honorable Mention (Spring 2019)
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French Composer wrote composition based on play
Portrait for Her Thoughts
When a moody, apathetic teenager goes on a tour of The Museum of Very Fine Arts, she finds herself stunned as iconic female paintings from The Hall of Women begin speaking to her. Through a conversation with The Mona Lisa, The Birth of Venus, and Girl With A Pearl Earring, the teen finds that there is more to art - and women - than meets the eye. A 10-minute play.
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Play reading - Hawai’i Women's Voices Playwriting Festival (Spring 2019)
Stings and Things
An overly optimistic gardener with a fear of bees trips and hits her head on a rock. She can suddenly hear her sunflowers talk and finds her stereotypes about flowers, bees, and the characters around her shattered. A 10-minute play.
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Play reading - Hawai’i Women's Voices Playwriting Festival (Spring 2018)
