Since 2016, I have been the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater off-Broadway and am preparing to transition to a new career in maternal care. I am a newly trained doula, volunteer at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, and in the process of completing nursing school prerequisites in order to begin nursing school in 2023. 

Originally from the suburbs of Washington, DC, I moved to Pittsburgh to get an undergraduate degree in directing from Carnegie Mellon where I also received a Masters of Arts Management. I became the Associate Producing Director of City Theatre in Pittsburgh, where I directed plays while developing programming for the Lester Hamburg Studio Theatre and running the education and literary departments. I then moved to New York and became the New Works Program Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, then became the Managing Director and subsequently the Artistic Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center until June 2008 when I became a freelance director. I have directed a number of plays at major regional theaters and in NYC and then became the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater in March 2016. Some highlights of my Rattlestick tenure include leading the $4.5 million capital campaign to renovate the theater to make it fully accessible, building and expanding community partnerships for our key programming, producing groundbreaking new works which include Samuel D. Hunter's Lewiston/Clarkston, Dael Orlandersmith's Until the Flood, and Diana Oh's mylingerieplay.

As a director, some of my world premiere productions include: Cusi Cram’s Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick), Martyna Majok’s Ironbound (Rattlestick; Roundhouse; Steppenwolf’s First Look, NY Times Critics’ Pick), Jessica Dickey’s Charles Ives Take Me Home(Rattlestick) and Row After Row (Women’s Project), Cori Thomas’ When January Feels Like Summer (Ensemble Studio Theatre/P73/Women’s Proj; NY Times Critics’ Pick), Rachel Bonds’ Five Mile Lake (South Coast Rep), Sheila Callaghan’s Water (New Georges), Dead City (New Georges) and Lascivious Something (Women’s Project), Rajiv Joseph’s Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre), Tony Meneses’ Guadalupe in the Guest Room (Two River), Catherine Treischmann’s How the World Began (South Coast Rep and Women’s Project), and Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India (MaYi and Magic).