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October 2024

Just found out my essay, Oakling, will be published in Shenandoah next year. Many thanks to editor DW McKinney. Also opening in The Roommate at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis-plays through November 17th.

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September 2024

My new flash piece, Tomorrowland, was published online and in print in the September issue of Passengers Journal. Many thanks to my amazing fiction professor at MUW,  Mary Miller, for her guidance.

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June 2024

A big month for me. A show I directed and a solo show I perform in are happening at the same time at two different Shakespeare festivals. Photo by Phillip Hamer, top left of the one I directed, As You Like It at St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Pictured are Beth Bombara, Riley Carter Adams, Bianca Sanborn and the amazing Wali Jamal Abdullah as Jacques.

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Performing in Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder's solo play, Zelda in the Backyard at Alabama Shakespeare Festival was an absolute delight. Photo bottom left.

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August 2023

Many thanks toThe Disappointed Housewife for publishing my first nonfiction work, Expedition, a flash piece that explores the tension between safety and wildness as it details some of the history of one of St. Louis' brick-filled neighborhoods, DeMun. Gratitude to editor Kevin Brennan for both his thoughtful input, and for nominating the piece for a Pushcart Prize.

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July 2023

Just directed my first opera, Benjamin Britten's masterpiece Turn of the Screw at Union Avenue Opera. Loved every minute directing a wonderful cast: Meroë Kahlia Adeeb, Christine Brewer, Cecilia Hickey, Alexandra Martinez-Turano, James Stevens, and Sophie Yilmaz. Scott Schoonover conducts. Through July 14th. Tickets here.

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March 2023

Thrilled to hear my short play, Student, will be published in the Spring 2023 edition of New Plains Review.

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Also busy directing What the Constitution Means to Me at Max and Louie Productions. Opens April 5.

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July 2022

Thrilled to be reunited with my former collaborator Rick Dildine at Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writer's Festival to workshop a wonderful new one-woman show, Zelda in the Backyard by my new favorite playwright/friend Elizybeth Wilder.

(Photo left courtesy of Alabama Shakespeare Festival)

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June 2021

My radio play, SHE, produced by ERA Theatre with amazing music by Joe Taylor and directed by Lucy Cashion, premiered at Off Broadway in STL. Full album available for purchase on Bandcamp here. (Graphic Design by Martin Brief.)

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April 2020

My new play, MUTE: A Play for Zoom was featured in American Theatre magazine!  â€‹

In a world much like ours, there exists a video conference call. And in this call, there are academics, confusion, fire and...one hamster. An experimental theatre piece that steals rabidly from Ionesco, Beckett, real life and Chekhov. Written for performance on Zoom by Nancy Bell and directed by Lucy Cashion. Premiered on Zoom April 5, 2020.

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