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Santa Cruz Shakespeare: Lessons in Brief

This thing we do to ourselves. This these are my people now. This goodbye for now or always. It's just love. It's just community-building...

Ways She Could Go

In my gratitude journal, there is sprawling cursive about Isabella’s potential not-ending: warm, merciful, empowered, propellant. It was w...

Helena

I needed A Midsummer Night’s Dream to close, because my knees were sore. Are. They are sore, very much so, still. For all the diligent wo...

NOBLE MINDS: The play and its purpose

My latest project, and my first piece of writing to be presented onstage - here's what it is and where it came from...Noble Minds - featu...

DRY LAND at Pomona College

A well-designed, (almost) adequately immersive dive into the waters of young womanhood, Pomona College’s DRY LAND succeeds best when it a...

A Weekend of Will: Shakespeare & Company's LA Intensive

On this day last week, I headed down to LA to attend Shakespeare & Company's Weekend Intensive. Here are some reflections from this bout ...

On Riverside Rep's SPRING AWAKENING and Skin: Why It Isn't (and is) About Boobs

Reflections on being in the skin of my character, Wendla, and in mine throughout my experience in Riverside Repertory Theater's productio...

The Wall Climbers Theatre Project: Who, What, Why?

The Wall Climbers is an initiative that I've kickstarted independently, and yet the phrase itself implies plurality - as in, not just Mad...

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