Interview on BEYOND TECHNIQUE

Samantha Rund is a multi-talented, multi-faceted actor, comedian, and coach (for acting, performance, and life in general), and her podcast BEYOND TECHNIQUE features interviews about learning to be one’s authentic self with professionals from all sorts of disciplines. I’m honored to share that she asked me to be a guest on a recent episode, which…

Pushcart Nomination from THE IOWA REVIEW

At the end of 2020, I received incredible news: THE IOWA REVIEW had nominated my short story “Birds of New Mexico” for a Pushcart Prize! I was already elated that my story was even going to be published in this magazine, so to find out that, on top of selecting it for publication, the editors…

“The Comeback” in THE MACGUFFIN

I’m so delighted that my short story “The Comeback” appears in Vol. 36, No. 3 of THE MACGUFFIN! I just received my contributor copies in the mail–they look awesome and I’m looking forward to checking out the rest of the work in the issue. Many thanks to the editorial staff for including my fiction!

The Blank’s Living Room Series

Thanks to The Athena Project, this summer I had the extremely good fortune to work on THE SNAKE GOD OF FIJI (A HEDDA GABLER PREQUEL) with dramaturge Penny Cole. I now have the additional good fortune of presenting the new draft as a part of The Blank’s Living Room Series, which–thanks to the pandemic–will be…

SLOWLY AND THEN ALL AT ONCE Virtual Premiere

The play that I’ve been writing with The Vagrancy for the past nine months is premiering online in Blossoming: The Virtual Edition on Tuesday, June 9. While usually this reading would be live and in-person, COVID-19 has required us all to pivot and reimagine our planned new play festival in a virtual context. Director Hannah…