Writing

“The people who produce the poet are not responsible to him: he is responsible to them.”

–James Baldwin, “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare.”

Hey, you. I hope you’re doing alright. Here’s some excerpts of the words I write, for your enjoyment.

When I worked at Concord Theatricals, I wrote articles for their magazine, Breaking Character. Here are some of my favorites:

Sometime When Everything Has Changed is a play for young audiences that explores the freeing power of imagination during times of restriction.

Letters From Away Episode Two: Coming Home is a visual and aural exploration of what it means to come home to one’s self when the world is fractured into a million pieces. Written letters are unlike any other form of communication.

If ever you think about somewhere else, then this poem is for you.

“The Third Drawer On the Left” is a short story written during the summer of 2020, while the author was piecing together what it meant to live life during the pandemic.

At the Boston University School of Theatre, I have to write a paper each semester detailing my artistic process and how I perceived myself within my community. [I Read a Sonnet to a Stranger] is a short story I wrote and turned in as that paper in the Fall of 2020.

Here’s some literary criticism; a comparative analysis of Plato and Samuel Johnson, in case you’re into that sort of thing.

I also help other people write words: I’m an associate editor for LMDA REVIEW: The Journal of Dramaturgy. Check it out here.

I’ve got more to share — a collection of 50 sonnets, a dramatic sci-fi adaptation of One Thousand and One Nights, the atmospheric libretto for an experimental movement film — contact me if you’re interested!

I’m looking for literary representation that can help me share my words with as many people as possible.

Photo by Ransom Silliman.