LATELY…

In Summer ‘25, I’ll be returning to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. The Conference is a singular space — a rare collision of my Appalachian & NYC homes — and I’m hoping to once again spot the elusive, coquettish Sewanee Fox on a midnight walk through campus.

As part of the 2025 NC New Play Project’s Mark Gilbert Award, LEMURIA received a community workshop production right down the road, in Greensboro. Thanks to the generous cast & crew, director Todd Fisher, and Creative Greensboro. Now, for rewrites —

As my neighbors in Asheville and greater Western NC continue to rebuild after Hurricane Helene, I’m volunteering with a community-based archival, oral history, and arts project called COME HELL OR HIGH WATER.

My plays and screenplays tend to grow from questions or curiosities about:

• Shakespeare

• the American South(s)

• the lives of queer folks, now & through time

• the Venn Diagram almond between folk music & opera

• ambivalence towards fast food chicken

• the ghosts & myths of family