Writing
published essays
screen
Leda
Short screenplay about a young woman whose sexual fantasies have come to life in terrifying ways as she navigates a new relationship. Winner of Most Original Concept at the Austin Spotlight Film Festival (2022), an official selection at the Lake Travis Film Festival (2022), a semifinalist at the Manhattan Short Film Festival (2023), and a finalist at the California Women’s Film Festival (2023).
Feature length film that tells the story of Emily, a young mother addicted to heroin, struggling to maintain a relationship with her daughter and a grip on reality. Audience Choice Award winner at the Rockport Film Festival (2022), and selection at Cinefestival (2023). Now streaming on Tubi.
Kahla and Natalie Reach Enlightenment
Seven episode web series chronicling the spiritual journey towards enlightenment taken by two friends. Available on YouTube.
Yolk
Short screenplay about an adolescent boy's struggle with the expectations surrounding masculinity following his father's suicide. A finalist at the California Women's Film Festival (2017), a finalist in the TinselTown Productions Screenplay Contest (2017), an official selection at the Changing Face International Film Festival (2017), and an official selection at the Austin Spotlight Film Festival (2023).
Short, experimental screenplay exploring ‘90s nostalgia and the anguish of growing up. Produced as an independent film in 2015, directed by Ari Herschel Shapiro and produced by Russell Kahn.
stage
Full-length play. A ghost story about a little girl trapped in time by sexual trauma. A collision of memoir, drag, and images from William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Sister asks the audience to come face to face with the parts of themselves that have been abandoned. Performed November 2018 at Dixon Place in New York City.
Shotgun
Ten-minute play about a woman stuck in a cycle of abuse and her struggle to break out of it. Performed February 2015 at the Frontier Theatre in Chicago, as part of Valentine's Play Festival.
Caddy: A Play About Kings
Full-length, site-specific autobiographical adaptation of William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (Honors Thesis). Performed June 2014 in Evanston, IL.
The Windsor Knot
Ten-minute play that explores grief on the world stage. Performed at the 2013 Ten Minute Play Festival at Northwestern University, as well as the Young Gotham Arts Festival, New York City (2013) as a staged reading.