Biography

I am a director, choreographer, and arts educator currently living and working in New York City. My work has been presented at 3-Legged Dog, La MaMa Etc, Theater Row, Prelude/CUNY Graduate Center, The Brooklyn Museum, The Brick, FRINGENYC, and non-theater spaces like outside of the 68th Street subway stop, NYCFashion Week, and 571 Projects. I particularly enjoy creating work that is interdisciplinary, “idea-driven”, and good, weird, fun. I have choreographed Vaclav Havel’s last piece, a story about finding pork in Communist Czechslovakia, and have turned Theodore Roosevelt into a bullmoose as he gave his famous shot-at-the-podium speech.

I have been thinking about where language and gesture/the body meet and depart for a long, long time. The longer I practice, the more I appreciate the geography (time+place) of this dance between words and bodies. I even studied English and Dance at Hunter College, creating work that explored this interaction between linguistics and the body. For me, the act of creating performance work is a sacred and wacky exploration of our interior worlds, which have very big impacts on our exterior worlds. It is the dialogue of the micro with the macro. Wear a hardhat!