Writing

I write plays about what happens when survival becomes unbearable, and the sacred breaks open inside Black and brown lives.

Alala & The Scarman is a play about love under pressure. Between protest chants and bedroom rituals, a woman who refuses to go quiet and a man who learned to survive by shining must decide whether endurance is love, or just another inheritance they are tired of carrying.

Ghost Trap is a play about a family trying to stay put in a world that keeps evicting them. When a mother begins wearing her dead sister’s life-like armor, her children attempt to summon a ghost powerful enough to hold them together. What unfolds is a reckoning with inheritance, housing, and the cost of mistaking survival for safety.

The Bittersweet Ballad of Blessed (& Messiah) is an epistolary love story about two Black lovers bound by language and longing. As words deepen their intimacy, love slips into projection, and being adored begins to feel like being erased. The play asks what happens when love speaks fluently, but listening fails.

Mailman is a ritual play about grief that refuses to stay buried. In a Milwaukee neighborhood thick with loss, a shining mailman who survived the noose becomes a conduit for the dead, forcing the living to reckon with what they refuse to name. As mothers, daughters, and ghosts collide, the play asks what it costs to keep breathing in a country built on forgetting