I’m here to champion your story by diving deep, asking a thousand beautiful questions, offering notes and prompts and tools, diagnosing where the reality doesn’t quite match the vision yet. 

dramaturgy & consulting

Stories that move our bodies with rhythm and ritual. Magical, authentic emotions crafted one linguistic detail at a time.

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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

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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

A new Yiddish-English musical
with Debra Caplan

Workshop in NYC
coming winter 2025!

Paper Brigade

Watch the second production!
Ran February-March 2023
One Ounce Opera, Austin TX

bubbie and the demon

watch & workshop