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Hometown: NYC
Education: BFA Carnegie Mellon University and College at Purchase, graduate Studies Bristol Old Vic theatre School, Bristol, UK
Why theater?: Had no choice. It was the only thing I have ever been passionate about.
Tell us about Birds on a Wire?: Birds on a Wire is a play about those incredibly strong people who survived the Dust Bowl. It is also about a family that learns, in part, to forgive each other for the most heinous of sins.
What inspired you to create Birds on a Wire?: Barack Obama and his inspiration to honor communities and reading "The Worse Hard Times' by Timothy Egan
What kind of theater speaks to you?: Revolutionary new theatre that means something, that exists for a reason, to make the world, one tiny inch at a time, a better place. Not interested in vanity theatre, or safe theatre.
What or who inspires you as an artist?: Peter Brook
What show have you recommended to your friends?: Anything produced by Complicite
What’s your biggest guilty pleasure?: Pedicures
If you weren’t working in theater, you would be_____: A Lawyer
What’s up next?: Directing Master Class for The International Festival of the Voice, Phoencia, NY.