Portfolio
Playwright
A Midsummer Day’s Awakening
Influenced by my research project with Dr. Yuko Kurahashi, Ph.D., I wrote A Midsummer Day’s Awakening, which tells the story of what occurs directly after the events of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This sequel uses many of the same styles characteristic to Shakespeare’s plays including a five-act structure, iambic pentameter, and early Modern English.
Educators' and Learners' Guide to Shakespeare through Stagings and Adaptations
Partnered with Dr. Yuko Kurahashi and the SURE (Summer Undergraduate Research Experience) program to create the book: Educators' and Learners' Guide to Shakespeare through Stagings and Adaptations, a free online resource book that aims to make Shakespeare more accessible to students and teachers in high school and collegiate classrooms.
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Play Articles
Urinetown: The Musical (Review)
A Note on Somewhere: A Primer for
the End of Days (Review)
Shakespeare
I have always been very passionate about Shakespeare. His work is about the humanity of things like love and greed, courage and fear, happiness and sadness. Anyone can do anything with Shakespeare because Shakespeare embodies the core humanities that we all have.
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While some people delight in reading Shakespeare, some people find it difficult, confusing or incomprehensible. That's where I focused my intentions during my undergrad at Kent State University and created an open resource book to make Shakespeare’s writing more readable and relatable.
Shakespeare Open
Resource Book
Together with Dr. Yuko Kurahashi, Ph.D, I researched and authored an open resource for teachers and students which covers five of Shakespeare’s plays.
Presentations
The Undergraduate Research Symposium was the culminating event where I presented my research that compiled into Conjuring Shakespeare's Kings, Witches, and Fools. It was presented alongside other related research topics in the arts and took First Place in the Arts Category.
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My presentation at the NEO-PURA Innovation conference was an expansion on my research, focusing on the contemporary meanings and influences of Kenny Leon’s all-black production of Much Ado About Nothing (2019) and Tara Moses’ Indigenous cast production of Othello (2022). The presentation’s goal is to demonstrate how Kenny Leon and Tara Moses use Shakespeare and different theatrical elements to create diverse and relatable stories that give a voice to underrepresented groups in the modern day.
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"Conjuring Shakespeare’s Kings, Witches, and Fools” Honors Undergraduate Research Symposium (2023)
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"Conjuring Shakespeare’s Kings, Witches, and Fools” Undergraduate Research Symposium (2023)
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"Conjuring Shakespeare’s Kings, Witches, and Fools” NEO-PURA Innovation Conference (2023)
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“Conjuring Shakespeare’s Kings, Witches, and Fools” (Presentation) The Summer Undergraduate Research Program (2022) First Place in the Arts Category.
Stage Work
Over the course of my career, I have participated in a number of different productions serving as different roles for each one.
Freshman Showcase
Kent State University
Tom/Ensemble​
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Student performers from the Freshman class and directors from the Senior class come together each year to put on a Freshman Showcase.
The Terra Project 2.0.2.0
Kent State University
Larry
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A play by Kent State's Transforum Theatre explores "What if 2020 had just been a simulation?" Larry is a new hire at Life Co., an organization that runs the simulations for our yearly life.
Inside The Box
Kent State University
Neighbor/Sailor
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In a new experimental audio piece, audiences experience the story of a young girl and her journey through other worlds all without a visual element.
Tarzan the Musical
French Creek Theatre
Ensemble
Seussical The Musical
French Creek Theatre
Ensemble
Back to the 80’s
French Creek Theatre
Alf Bueller
Bye Bye Birdie
French Creek Theatre
Maude/Ensemble
Our Town
French Creek Theatre
Wally Webb
Pit Stop: Earth
Rialto Theater
Skragnere