Recent Creative Projects
Salud (2022)
Summary: After the newly-discovered Fountain of Youth makes immortality widely accessible, a married couple must choose if they really want to stay together until “‘til death do us part.”
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Runtime: 6 minutes
Artist’s note: I was honored to be selected to participate as a writer during the 2022 Women’s Weekend Film Challenge. The challenge connected me with a crew of nearly 30 women and nonbinary filmmakers, supplied us with generously donated gear and a production budget, surprised us with a randomly-selected genre (Alternate History), a prop we must include (greeting cards), and tasked us with writing, shooting, and finishing a short film in just 84 hours. It was a phenomenal and hectic experience that I feel so lucky to have been a part of. It was my first time collaborating on such a large-scale production, pitching and finishing a script in under 6 hours, and formally collaborating with another writer. It was a creative challenge unlike any I had experienced before, and I can confidently say that I grew as a writer from this experience. My co-writer Savannah Lobel, producer Elena Eschleman, director Sarah Abiharb, and I are sending Salud out to festivals this season.
Broadway Bard Party @ NYCC
Summary: A ragtag band of adventurers face blood-thirsty foes, riddles, and a surprisingly complicated elevator in a quest to recover a rare treasure.
Runtime: 61 minutes
Artist's note: In the Fall of 2021, I was asked to play a live D&D one-shot adventure alongside several Broadway stars and theatre luminaries for Playbill's Broadway Bard Party panel at New York City Comic Con. I created a character (elderly Elven Life Cleric/retired nanny named J'ulee Enndrews–legally distinct), had a short test session with my fellow players/performers, and then we all assembled at NYCC to play for a live audience.
Games are a core medium of interest for me as part of my Narrative, Psychology, and Culture studies at NYU Gallatin. What are table-top roleplaying games except for collaborative and improvised storytelling? I hope to study how narrative-driven games (especially games like Dungeons and Dragons) are constructed, how they have morphed to reflect contemporary cultural norms, and the ways in which they are being used therapeutically.
From left to right: Gamemaster David Andrew Greener Laws (Twenty-Sided Tavern), Will Roland (Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen and Be More Chill), Fergie L. Phillipe (Broadway’s Hamilton), Me, West Hyler (Broadway’s Cirque Du Soleil Paramour, Broadway Hit Points)