So, you wanted to know more?
Who am I?
Well, firstly what the fuck is that blue thing?
Well, it's me. Kind of. Ish.
I’ve often looked in the mirror and not recognized the person in it. There’s some sort of fundamental disconnect between my self-image and physicalized self. In truth, I’d most aptly describe myself as blobish. Making theater, dance, and comedy is when I find shape. Identity markers are helpful– they give context to my perspectives and interests–but ultimately feel static. When I’m choreographing, dancing, writing, acting, directing, or even trying my hand as a cartoonist (as seen above), I am dynamic. Free. On fire. Falling. And floating. Amorphous. Creating art allows me to be ever-changing, ideas spilling out of me as quickly as I find new inspiration. Always in conversation with my past self and moving toward the future.
Because blob-ish cannot currently be found under the census’s ‘Race,’, let me be a bit more straightforward. I am a Black queer woman. I love being scared. I hate being tickled. I am an undergraduate at Yale University, majoring in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and pursuing a Master’s in Public Health. I’m invested in creating communities of artists and collaborators. I love competition. And, I can’t stand losing. I couldn’t imagine myself without any of these parts. And yet, even the staticness of these words feels limiting. I am always in motion—blurry and blob-ish.
As a child, I’d always said that if I found a genie in a bottle, my first wish would be to ask for unlimited wishes. While I have come to a different conclusion on workers’ rights, I’ve never tempered my want. In performance, I can want primally, irrationally, divinely. To desire so intensely, to push forward with unfettered hope, is why I create art. I want to tell stories and create pieces that move people to desire more for themselves, to shamelessly yearn and lust for what they want. I want to find that even when words fail us, the body can want more from others, the world, and itself. In every medium I operate–improv, sketch comedy, theater, standup, and dance–desire is palpable. It clouds people’s (often my own) judgment, pushing them to hilarious acts of irrationality; it pushes my characters to speak what most dare not; it asks my dancers to push their minds and bodies to new heights. I am here to create work that inspires us to dream big and pursue relentlessly.
Why do I create?
What am I working on?
I am currently directing the musical Cabaret ( by Kander & Ebb and Joseph Masteroff) for a Yale Senior Thesis Production; the show will run from February 26-28, 2026.
My original play, Boys Will Be Bugs, was selected for the Yale Playwrights Festival and will be performed in a staged reading on February 21st, 2026
I will be performing in the role of Austria in Austria in Georgia (an original play by Yale Drama School playwright Aaron Magloire); the show will run from April 9th-11th
For the rest of 2026, I will be performing, nationally touring, and writing for Yale's premiere sketch comedy group, Red Hot Poker, and improv comedy group, Purple Crayon. For the latter, I won't be writing; I'll be winging that one.
The big leagues.