I believe in the liberation of people through stories.

Whether it’s clinical social work practice, coaching, writing, speaking or making theater and films, each client / project / performance is a journey of discovery.

Some of the things I’ve done throughout my career are below.

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As a theater artist I have produced, directed and performed for many regional theaters across the country, including Arena Stage, Roundhouse Theatre, The Lark, Joe's Pub, Commonweal Theatre, PCPA Theatrefest and others. I have directed children’s theater in Boston and new work for the Deaf Way II International convention in Washington, DC, as well as, produced shows at Performance Space 122 and the District of Columbia Arts Center. 

As an artist-educator, I have worked in many traditional and non¬traditional performance spaces, schools and universities, including Escuela de Ancon (Panama City), Anacostia Mental Health Center, My Sister’s Place, New York University, Amherst College, The Kennedy Center and Looking Glass Theatre. As Assistant Director of the former Living Stage Theatre Company, I directed original performance works and led hundreds of performance/workshops in improvisational theater and devised performance for people ages 3-103. I recently developed a creative workshop program specifically for men in addiction recovery and young girls in transitional housing for a social service organization in Brooklyn. 

I began filmmaking while creating an original interdisciplinary theater-dance-film piece Memory is a Body of Water (with Dr. Lisa Biggs and Kristin Horton, Dir.) for The National Black Theater Festival that toured nationally. I then went on to work for several production companies, including PBS’ Citizen King. Finding more creative expression within documentary work, my experimental short, flag/body has been shown in Australia, Denmark and New York, the short, GroundWater was screened as a part of an intercontinental artist exchange in Panama co-sponsored by the U.S. Embassy in Panama and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts at Northwestern University with artists Dr. Katie Zien, Barak Ade Soleli and Awilda Rodriguez Lora. My documentary Walk With Me, (co-directed and produced with Ellie Walton) about three women who use theater for social justice which was released digitally and can still be seen on Amazon and KweliTV. I produced Brave Girls about young women in Northern India breaking culture that can be seen on digital platforms (Amazon, iTunes, etc.); been apart of JD Urban’s Everyday People Project - a living documentary through the life of photographer/filmmaker. I have currently co-producing Gypsy and the Bullydoor by Dr. Nina Angela Mercer with Ocean Ana Rising, where I serve a producer and creative strategist.

I hold a BFA Theatre performance with a concentration in Holistic Drama from Arizona State University, an MA in Media Studies from The New School and a Masters of Social Work from Hunter College. Now an LCSW licensed in NY and NJ, I have developed a group private practice that is a place for new therapists to grow and for clients to have an holistic approach for care.

A member of Actors' Equity Association, my creative work has been recognized through an Artist's Fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Puffin Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Humanities Council of DC. I was a 2015 Target Margin Theater Fellow and 2018 space fellow, 2016/2017 Artist in Residence at The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 2017 Map Fund grantee. I am also part of The Black Theater Mechanics collective as part of Washington, DC based Ocean Ana Rising, Inc. to develop an annual summer play lab and theatre residency hosted by a historically black colleges or universities, that provides development resources for the under-produced stories that center the experiences of Black diasporic communities that was supported by The Black Seed Fund fiscally sponsored by MoCaDa in Brooklyn.

Riding my bike to the beach is my favorite thing to do. Preferably in Mexico…or anywhere the ocean meets a shore.