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dramaturgy & consulting
Stories that move our bodies with rhythm and ritual. Magical, authentic emotions crafted one linguistic detail at a time.
operas & plays
I’m a storyteller from northern New Mexico. After spending years in Boston and Austin, I'm now based in Denver—it's great to be home in the southwest!
As an observantly Jewish, queer artist, I love how imagination can help us practice progress. I create characters at the margins who break boxes.
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Photo by Sofia Negron
Photo by Sofia Negron
Deep in the forest lives a gaggle of feral, unlovable children.
They work their hands to the bone every day in service to the evil wizard Rumpelstiltskin…he makes them do chores! And brush their teeth regularly! And talk about their feelings! It’s the WORST. But then one day, Rumpel tells them the story of how his childhood friend, a talented businesswoman, got forced to marry the king. Suddenly all the Unlovable Children’s narratives about who they are begin to unravel.
When Goldie, the eldest of them, learns that she’s actually the long-lost daughter of that Queen, she’s faced with a tough choice: go live the life she'd imagined as a princess, or stay with the unconventional family that has nurtured her true self?
A new youth opera with composer Jens Ibsen, commissioned by the Glimmerglass Project Pipeline. Premiered August 2024.
at the Glimmerglass Opera Festival
Rumpelstiltskin
and the
Unlovable Children
recently
Photo by Sofia Negron
Photo by Sofia Negron
Bubbie and the Demon
at one ounce opera
Austin, TX
The second production of Cecelia's micro-opera with composer Jens Ibsen, originally commissioned by the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center.
This scrappy piano-vocal version played to sold-out crowds in a funky warehouse in East Austin, earning seven nominations for Austin's B. Iden Payne Awards.
a new Yiddish-English musical
with Debra Caplan
Workshop in NYC
winter 2025-26
Paper Brigade
a new micro-opera
commissioned by Boston Opera Collaborative
with composer Beth Wiemann
Premieres January 2026
