I make up stories. Fantastical, darkly comedic, unsettling stories. Stories that explore womanhood, Black cultures and mental health in the spit and spirit of childhood tales.
NOMADIC LIFE
Back in 2011, I sold all my stuff and left my home in the Bay Area, Calif. to travel across Southeast Asia. I’ve been vagabonding ever since, living out of a bloated backpack in India, Kenya, Austria, Peru and beyond — often looking after uncanny creatures in exchange for free lodging while shaping my craft.
IN THEATER
Darling(s) and Less Marvelous Monsters, a full-length play exploring the duality of freedom through conjoined sisters, received an SLF Gulliver Travel Research Grant and was a 2023 Bay Area Playwrights Festival semifinalist. Shorter plays have been produced by Fade To Black Play Fest, The Navigators and elsewhere in speculative theater.
IN FILM
So Unfair, a playful but nightmarish anthology remixing age-old fairytales, was supported by SFFILM and “Stranded” (a part of the anthology) won the best screenplay award at BlackStar Film Fest.
In 2021, I found my way to directing through my debut short film, “Daraluz,” a haunting tale set in Central Mexico. The short won the best film award at entertwine and WOCU’s inaugural 48-Hour Horror Film Fest and premiered on Shudder.
IN PUBLICATIONS
Besides theater and film, you’ll find travel tales and photography featured in Ebony, NYTimes and Whole Life Times, with poetry in Vagabond City and forthcoming in Obsidian Lit.
NOW
I’m pet-sitting in Japan with my husband (and frequent collaborator), working on a new stage play and my first feature film.