I write feel-good stories.
Not feel-good like Hallmark, feel-good like setting a bone.*
I didn’t grow up writing musicals. I wrote my first song in the bathroom of a half-condemned apartment during a devised puppet show. The show had been silent to that point but the moment needed words, so I gave it some. It’s called “The Woodsman” and you can find it on Broadway HD. That’s my approach to writing original musicals, everything in service of the story and the best idea wins. The musical style and tone of my projects are very different from one another but they are all stories of self-healing. I am on a crusade against isolation and that is the through line of the original stories I develop.
I recently moved from New York to just outside Los Angeles (where I am also from) with my husband Sean Rogers and our daughter.
*Hallmark can definitely still hit me up, I can be bought and taught.
Career Highlights
2024 Next Gen Award Winner - Theater Latté Da
2024 Ars Nova ANT Fest concert of “Let Me Go Kill Myself Real Quick: A Musical”
2023 3 week workshop of “The Loophole” at Playwrights Horizons
2023 MUSE Mentorship with Tom Kitt
2023 LIVE & In Color Writer’s Room
2022 Headlined UWM’s Passing the Mic Hip Hop Festival with guest artist residency
2022 Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat with “The Loophole”
2022 National Musical Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center with “Let Me Go Kill Myself Real Quick: A Musical” (formerly known as “The Jordan & Avery Show”)
2022 Short Film of “The Jordan & Avery Show” produced by The Barn
2022 Commission from The Oregon Shakespeare Festival for “The Great Halt”
2022 “Notes From Now” at 59E59 with Prospect Theater
2021 “I Write Musicals” Mentor
2021 Vivace Award for “Vera & The Battle for New Seoul”
2021 CO/LAB production of “A Space Oddity”
2020 Richard Rodgers Award for “The Loophole”
2020 MTF 4x15 presentation of “LEFAY”
2019 Studio Production of “The Loophole” at The Public Theater
2019 NYU Tisch Adjunct Professor
2019 Dramatist Guild Foundation Fellowship
2019 SPACE on Ryder Farm
2019 Production of “Fingerpaintings” at Playwrights Horizons Downtown
2018 Jonathan Larson Award
2018 Writing Residency with Jeanie O’Hare at The Public Theater
2018 Excerpt presentation of “The Loophole” at The Public Theater
2018 Larson Legacy Concert at Adelphi University
2018 “The Woodsman” on BroadwayHD
2017 Obie Award winning production of “The Woodsman” at New World Stages
2017 “Beloved” featured on PBS
2016 Short musical film adaptation of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada
2016 #BARS at The Public Theater mentored by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal
2016 co-production of “The Last Tiger in Haiti” at La Jolla Playhouse and Berkeley Rep
2015 “The Woodsman” 2 sold out runs at 59E59
2014 Ars Nova production of “The Woodsman”
