writing
one act:
anagnorisis (written for 2m)
jimmy and leo are two university students madly in lust with each other, going strong into the tenth month of their relationship. nothing could tear them apart - that is, until a devastating revelation comes to light during one fateful weekend. as their lives turn upside down, their once lock-tight bond morphs into a raunchy, tragicomic deconstruction of how neoliberalism and respectability politics seeps into our relationships - romantic, familial, and in-between.
- 2021: development at queen’s university, facilitation by kat sandler
full length:
mirror ball (written for 2m or more, flexible casting)
an intimate chamber piece and an odyssey all at once, mirror ball tells one story - of missed opportunity - belonging to many people, stitching together fragmented generations to examine the shame and loneliness that gay men experience in their attempts to connect with each other. jumping between radical activists in the 2020s, shakespearean actors in the 1590s, astronauts in the 3000s, and so forth, this at one raucously satirical and mercurially tender play of longing asks how much has truly changed in the fight that we face today.
- 2023: workshop at house + body theatre, facilitation by christopher manousos
- 2021-2022: development at queen’s university, facilitation by colleen murphy
what’s next:
good boy (written for 4m)
good boy started growing a tail (a real, actual, non-metaphorical tail) when he was nineteen after a strictly confidential incident. now, as a regular gay guy in his twenties, he’s started growing canines - just in time for the divorce of the long-married couple he hooks up with... and in time for his relationship with his best friend with benefits to be called into question... and in time for his new therapist to pry his dark history open. taking the idea of the body keeping the score to it’s extreme, good boy unleashes a pitch black bite on power, trauma, and how hard it is to find a boyfriend when you have a tail.
2025: development and workshop at tarragon theatre, facilitation by nathaniel hanula-james with assistant dramaturgy by jonnie lombard and ganesh thava