PAST PROJECTS
grease my chin by Jude Cramer
grease my chin ran at Under St. Marks as a part of Frigid’s Día de los Muertos festival October 20 and 21, 2025.
Tensions are running high on an annual family camping trip — and the onset of the zombie apocalypse sure doesn’t help. Disputes over parenting, pronouns, and privacy give way to a fight for survival as a family wrestles with its own monstrosity. In hereditary horror grease my chin, family secrets and passed-down prejudices come to light around the campfire in a blood-splattered battle between three generations.
Stupid Boring Straight People by Seth Barnes
Stupid Boring Straight People ran Off-Off Broadway at The Players Theatre April 4-21, 2024.
Stupid Boring Straight People is a play about what you think your friends think you think of them. Taking place on the outskirts of this Halloween Party, the play follows four couples, all portrayed by the same two actors, at different stages of their relationships. They flirt, fight, fall in love, gossip, stab each other in the back, and try desperately to guess each other’s costumes.
The Exit Interview by Nina Kissinger
Off-Broadway premiere at Soho Playhouse in 2024 as part of their Lighthouse Festival. Won its group and moved on to second round.
Shortly after dying Sam finds herself in a void with Lenny, a somewhat competent afterlife employee, for her exit interview. Like many things in Sam’s life, this does not go as planned. The Exit Interview by Nina Kissinger is a dark comedy about what it means to reflect on your life after death and, more frighteningly, for someone else to.
The Pimple Play by Seth Barnes
The Pimple Play was presented as a part of The Chain Theatre's Summer play festival. (This short play eventually became Stupid Boring Straight People.)
It's party time at Joey and Sarah's, but when Joey gets distracted by an impossible to reach zit, he and Sarah begin to come apart at the seams. Accusations are made and secrets are revealed as the couple tries with all their might to pop the gargantuan monstrosity.
Mariposa by Britney Quiroz
A virtual reading produced by Imaginarium Theatre Co. in NYC.
Mariposa is a story that explores the relationship between Mariposa, a First-Generation Chicana, and her father, Josué, an undocumented immigrant who struggles with alcoholism. Inspired by a culmination of similar stories amongst Mexican Latinas in the South Side of Chicago, Mariposa sheds light on the impact that generational trauma has on Mexican immigrant families. It is both a story of pain and unconditional love.
Summeryoung by Sophie McIntosh
A virtual reading produced by Platform Production Co.
Summeryoung follows four cousins as they look after their ailing grandmother and run-down family home over the course of one summer in the Northwoods. Each girl experiences a different coming of age, making discoveries about herself, her lineage, and the bond she shares with the other women in her family.
EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS
Clown Bar by Adam Szymkowicz
Assistant Director - Directed by Tyler Marchant
Long ago Happy left the Clown Bar and the organized clown crime world to work for the good guys. Now his junkie brother Timmy has been murdered and Happy returns to his old life to ask a few questions. But can he go home again without getting sucked into the seedy clown underbelly of vice and violence? Can he survive the gun toting clowns who used to be his friends or Blinky, the lady clown he left behind.
How To Defend Yourself by Lily Padilla
Undergrad Directing Class
Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defense workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They learn to use their bodies as weapons. They learn to fend off attackers. They learn “not to be a victim.” Learning self-defense becomes a channel for their rage, anxiety, confusion, trauma and desire – lots of desire. How To Defend Yourself explores what you want, how to ask for it, and the insidious ways rape culture steals one's body and sense of belonging.