About Me

I began writing at a very young age and have been doing it ever since, first with poems and stories and eventually plays, my true calling and passion. I studied playwriting at Fordham University and have subsequently had work produced in festivals across the United States and Europe, while developing as a fiction writer as well. 

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I believe the theatre is, or at least can be, a space for encountering the other - the other across the aisle, the street, the border, the other staring back at us in the mirror. Theatre is where the human is, and as such it is an ideal forum for the humanization and re-humanization of the other. The theatre can serve as witness to human solidarity, explore and express universal truths, and help facilitate breakthroughs of democratic love. I aspire for my work to contribute, however humbly, to this vision and purpose.

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I have had the privilege of conducting playwriting workshops at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany (where I teach full time) as well as Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, Ireland. Additionally, my short story collection "What The Statue Thinks" has been published by Wild Ink Publishing, and my work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals, including Ponder Review, After Dinner Conversation, Smith & Kraus 'Best Of' anthologies, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, as well as Substack.

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I was born in New York City, grew up at the Jersey Shore, and currently live with my family in Europe. All of these places have shaped my writing and outlook in important ways. I am always eager to learn, explore, collaborate, and grow as a person as well as an artist. I truly believe that literature and the performing arts offer society a means through which, to paraphrase Faulkner, it will endure and prevail. I hope, above all else, to help do my part.​

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Photo by Uka Meissner-deruiz