Comedy Reel

Fourth of July Stand-Up 2018
Resume
SELECTED PRODUCTIONS (as playwright)
Ruins
September 2017, The Araca Project, The American Theatre of Actors, dir. Heather Harvey
The Book of Judith
October 2015, Let Your Women Keep Silence Play Series, Dixon Place, dir. Rachel Graf Evans
With Friends Like These
June 2017, Agency Theatre Collective 24-Hour Play Fest, Chicago, IL, dir. Zach Barr
The Blue Album
November 2015, Master Clash at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, dir. Susan Bowen
Get Thee, Too
June 2016, Agency Theatre Collective 24-Hour Play Fest, Chicago, IL, dir. Brent Deickhoff
Starry-Eyed
June 2015, Agency Theatre Collective 24-Hour Play Fest, Chicago, IL, dir. Patrice Foster
Haircut
June 2013, Second City Writing Program Graduate Showcase, Chicago, IL, dir. Joe Janes
The Great Dismantling
May 2011, Oberlin College Playwriting Showcase, Oberlin, OH, dir. Sasha Schecter
Training
June 2009, Gorilla Tango 24-Hour Play Fest, Chicago, IL, dir. Erik Wagner
June
January 2009, Oberlin College Winter Term Play Fest, Oberlin, OH, dir. Ben Ferber
New Non-Fiction
October 2008, Oberlin College Cat O’Nine Tails Play Fest, Oberlin, OH, dir. Ben Ferber
Hang Up
May 2005, Steppenwolf Theatre Cross-Town Teen Ensemble, Chicago, IL, dir. Kimberly Senior
WEB SERIES (as writer)
Staff Writer, “In Real Life” (2017) – OpenTV.com
Creator/Producer/Co-writer, “Spellbound” pilot (2018) – Coming mid-2018
SELECTED STAND UP AND LIVE LIT
February 15, 2017 Mom Genes at Cafe Mustache, Chicago, IL
December 2016 Uptown Underground, Chicago, IL
November 2016 Louder Than A Mom at Martyr’s, Chicago, IL
July 2016 The Kates at the Book Cellar, Chicago, IL
April 2016 The Kates at the Laugh Factory, Chicago, IL
November 2015 The Kates at The Acorn Theatre, Three Oaks, MI
October 2015 The Kates at the Laugh Factory, Chicago, IL
July 2015 The Kates at the Book Cellar, Chicago, IL
April 2015 Feminine Comique at the Lincoln Loft, Chicago, IL
October 2014 Alderman Fundraiser, Simone’s, Chicago, IL
June 2014 Formosa Café, Los Angeles, CA
September 2013 Feminine Comique at the Lincoln Lodge, Chicago, IL
March 2013 Mortified Chicago, Schuba’s Tavern, Chicago, IL
May 2012 Copenhagen Comedy Newcomer of 2012
April 2011 Oberlin College Comedy Showcase, Oberlin, OH
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Contributor, Reductress (2014)
Poetry Contributor, Projecctile Magazine (now-defunct)
Essayist, The Moment (2012), edited by Larry Smith
Contributor, The Tangential (2012)
Poetry Contributor, The Plum Creek Review (2009-2011)
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL — M.F.A. in Writing for the Screen & Stage (2017)
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH — B.A. in English & Creative Writing (2011)
AWARDS
The Araca Project, New York, NY (2017)
Radio/TV/Film Department Sitcom Award, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (2016-17)
Playwriting Scholarship, Kenyon Playwrights Conference, Gambier, Ohio (2016)
Poetry Scholarship, Paris Writers Workshop, Paris, France (2012)
Comedy Newcomer of the Year, Wisecrackers SE, Copenhagen, Denmark (2012)
Posse Foundation Leadership Award, The Posse Foundation & Oberlin College (2007-2011)