Photo by Daniel Barlow
LATELY…
In Spring ‘26, our Lemur Believers from the Denver Center were featured in AMERICAN THEATRE Magazine and on COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO. If you have complicated feelings about KING LEAR and/or an inner monologue that sounds like Chain Smoking Julie Andrews, read on.
In February ‘26, LEMURIA headed to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts for the ‘26 Colorado New Play Summit. It was a thrill (and also just the nicest week imaginable) to collaborate with director Melissa Crespo, dramaturg Janice Paran, reader Claylish Coldiron, a wildly-talented cast (Tara Falk, Jamie Ann Romero, Cherrye J. Davis, Ceci Fernandez, Scout Backus, and Jacob Meyerson) and the Dream Team at DCPA. Love to my fellow Summit playwrights — Isaac Gómez, Tony Meneses, Alyssa Haddad-Chin, Nina McConigley, Matthew Spangler, & Terence Anthony — for solidarity & for the exactitude of their art.
In Winter ‘25, I joined PlayPenn’s 2026 cohort of playwrights. We’re going deep on contract law, and I love that. Please send all-season recs for unmissable gin martinis, curries, and key lime pie in Philly!
In Fall ‘25, LEMURIA was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the oldest and largest playwriting prize honoring women+ writing for the English-speaking theatre. I also spent Halloween Season drafting a variety of new projects: some for stage & some for screen. I’m collaborating on a musical — writing libretto and co-writing lyrics — with the extraordinary Alex Bechtel (PENELOPE). Guess which scandal-stirring Jazz Age novel we’re adapting? (Hint: neither Fitzgerald.)
In Summer ‘25, I returned to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference on staff. The Conference is a singular space, a rare collision of my Appalachian & NYC homes. I also taught a summer playwriting course through UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program.
As my neighbors in Asheville and greater Western NC continue to rebuild after Hurricane Helene, I’m volunteering with a community-based archival, oral history, and arts project called COME HELL OR HIGH WATER. on COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO.
My plays and screenplays tend to grow from questions or curiosities about:
the American South(s)
Shakespeare
the lives of queer folks, now & through time
the Venn Diagram Almond between folk music & opera
ambivalence towards fast food chicken
ghosts & myths of family (born & chosen)