One month into the new year!
I hope everyone’s keeping warm, and finding time and space to make some art in 2025. So far it’s shaping up to be a busy winter/spring, with different freelance projects taking priority each month. Here’s a first look at what’s coming up:

February: Premiere the Play
Back for our fifth season (how?!), Premiere the Play will once again be presenting a full slate of new play readings in podcast format. The complete season will release over the summer, but my episode will be rehearsing next month for an early March recording. This year I’ll be directing Sing in Me Muse by Janine Sobeck Knighton, a wonderfully creative imagining of a meeting between Calliope, a Greek muse frustrated with always inspiring the art of others, and a young Leonardo da Vinci overwhelmed by too many ideas.
While we countdown to Season 5, the entire Premiere the Play back catalog is available anytime wherever you listen to podcasts, including my past episodes of the dystopian Irish sci-fi Zig-Zag, suspenseful thriller The Powers That Be, feminist drama Mommy-Person, and Shakespeare-inspired rom com The Puck Project. And I just may have an update on one of those plays coming later this year… which one could it be?
March: Monday Happenings

In March I’ll be participating in a couple of exciting one day only, donation-based events! First, I’m delighted to get back to my ballroom/social dance roots as part of Forager Theatre’s Take Root dance classes. Take Root is a welcoming and accessible weekly class, held Mondays 8-9:30pm for all levels and backgrounds, that offers a rotation of different dance styles and teachers in a pay-what-you-can, “come to one class or many” format. On March 10 I’ll be teaching an introduction to ballroom partnering and leading/following, along with some fun foxtrot choreography.

Continuing the Mondays in March theme, I’ll also be collaborating with PlayGround New York. Now in four cities around the US, PlayGround hosts a resident company of playwrights given monthly prompts to pen ten-minute plays. Each month, six plays are selected for an evening of staged readings by local actors and directors. Save the date for the upcoming March 24th reading, when I will be directing one of the featured plays! PlayGround Monday is a free event open to the public in-person at the Producers Club or via a virtual livestream, and audience members can vote for their favorite piece for a small donation.
April: Fringe Festivities!
After an exciting debut at several smaller festivals last summer, my little producing banner of Ladies & Fools returns for our biggest outing yet at NYC Fringe this spring! We will be presenting Conceal Me What I Am, an updated and expanded production of last summer’s All the Daughters of Viola’s House.

Through monologue, scene, and tableau, Conceal Me What I Am explores the variety and evolution of “breeches roles” in classical theatre. In a tight one-hour performance, a powerhouse ensemble of three weaves together the journeys of iconic Shakespearean figures such as Viola and Rosalind, alongside fascinating variations on the trope from female+ dramatists including Ana Caro, Elizabeth Polwhele, and Hannah Cowley.
We so look forward to sharing this show with a wider audience at the Chain Studio Theatre — with a livestream option also available! — for four performances throughout April. Tickets will go on sale in the coming weeks, and you can also keep an eye for our crowdfunding campaign coming your way shortly…
January Highlights & Recommendations
Some favorite media and performances from the past month:
Reading Weyward by Emilia Hart
Listening to The Dial-Up, a narrative sci-fi podcast
On Broadway English at the Todd Haimes Theatre
Workshops & Play Readings Agamemnon at Theater for the New City and PlayGround’s evening of “Shakespeare Sequels”
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