Creative work

Current projects

Nighttime outdoor event with people holding illuminated paper lanterns in a street, promotional poster for 'The Serpents Fly' performance at Sundown, presented by Glass Half Full Theatre and City of Austin's Economic Development.

Dramaturg

2025 - Present

This outdoor, giant puppet parade visits parts of Austin affected by natural disaster and long-term environmental adversity.

Designed and directed by Khristián Méndez Aguirre.

Initially part of the 2025 Cohen New Works Festival at Austin, Texas, this project is planned to continue in new forms in 2025 and 2026. More information available here.

Sample Previous work

I’ve directed, produced, and served as a dramaturg on dozens of projects. These projects have ranged in scope from a scrappy self-produced series of plays in cars, with audiences of one or two people, to assistant directing world premieres at the largest new play festival in the U.S.

I have directed site-specific work in parks, staged a play in a church, worked with teen writers and professional playwrights in their prime.

As a director, I believe in a process-oriented approach that celebrates our shared connections and wonders about the unique, terrifying, joyful, binary-busting and altogether complex times we live in. I love that performance has a unique potential to draw people together, and that’s a key part of my practice as an artistic collaborator.

In my creative work, I seek out partnerships with a diverse cohort of team members to expand the circle of people who see themselves in the theatre.

Person wearing a clown mask with big smile and blue eyebrows, dressed as a schoolgirl with a white shirt, plaid skirt, and striped tie, carrying a backpack.
A woman and a man are standing and talking in front of a decorated wall, each holding a microphone in an indoor setting with wooden floors and benches.

Director. The Christians by Lucas Hnath, 2022.

In this partnership between Trinity Street Players and First Baptist Church of Austin, I staged Hnath’s gripping debate about American churches and Christian afterlife with a diverse cast of professional artists, church members, and the church’s choir. The plays themes of shifting faith and congregational life offered a rich site for investigation into belief systems and religious experience.

Director. Behind Closed Doors by Heather Holbert, 2017.

Produced as part of the New Voices Young Playwrights Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, I directed this harrowing new one-act about the pressures of conformity written by a high school junior. Stylistically complex, this play required precise ensemble cohesion and commitment as one teen sought to break free o expectations and assumptions.

Two people sitting at a table with drinks, engaged in conversation on a stage with a colorful tiled floor, and plain black background.

Assistant Director. Cry Old Kingdom, by Jeff Augustin, directed by Tom Dugdale, 2013.

A Humana Festival world premiere, Cry Old Kingdom is a revolutionary play set in Haiti during “papa Doc” Duvalier’s regime in the 1960s. The play searches for hope and connection in the midst of impossible circumstances and a political environment fraught with corruption and betrayal.