I write visceral, poetic worlds inspired by Spanish playwright Federico Garcia Lorca's concept of duende. I received my BFA in Dramaturgy/Criticism from The Theatre School at DePaul University in 2002, and my MFA in Dramatic Writing from USC's School of Dramatic Arts in 2010. My USC thesis play My First, My Fist, My Bleeding Seeded Spirit, a contemporary sequel to Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, was part of the 2010 MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center and the National New Play Network’s Showcase of New Plays before receiving its world premiere at Miami’s New Theatre in 2013. My First, My Fist has been taught in classrooms at UC Davis and The Theatre School at DePaul University. My Cain and Abel story set to the Blues - The Dirt and Its Harp in Her Mouth - was produced at OC Centric’s 2012 New Play Festival, and made the OC Examiner’s Best New Plays of Orange County list. My sexy desert noir Serpentine Pink was produced as a part of L.A.’s Son of Semele’s Company Creation Festival, and had its world premiere at James Madison University in 2016. The cinematic version of my screenplay adaptation - produced by Hard Knock Productions - premiered at L.A. Film Fest's Independent Film Showcase in 2022, is the Winner of Bare Bones International Film Festival’s 2023 Domestic Violence Awareness Award, as well as the Winner of the LGBTQ category for the September 2022 Sweden Film Awards competition. I also wrote the screenplay for Ron Hanks’ short film Dirt Eaters which premiered at Cannes’ 2015 Court Métrage, and my short play Sexy Popcorn was selected for/published in The Best of Playground 2015 – Los Angeles. My haunted mansion riff of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts – Lecherous Honey – had its world premiere production with Cock and Bull in 2016. My company By The Souls Of Our Feet and I conjured a new primitive opera based on the Hecuba myth, a collaboration with O-Lan Jones of Overtone Industries. The first half had a workshop production at Son of Semele Theatre, and was produced in its entirety at USC's Visions & Voices in April 2023. A monologue from my most recent play Christine – a feminist response to Russian satirist Nikolai Gogol’s "The Nose" – was featured as a part of Cock and Bull’s Sessions/Isolation 2020 – a virtual festival of works/survival guide for isolation during the pandemic. I am currently developing an immersive ritual spell experience about an Irish American succubus for my theatre company called St. Brigid and the Never Wife.