THEATER
HIGH DRAMA
Sure, all the world’s a stage. But sometimes, you’ve got to stand under the spotlight and take the heat.
I got my start performing in high school plays and wrote comedy bits and music parodies for KIIS-FM, performed in LA music venues, dabbled in stand-up on college campuses in my 20s. I have a deep connection to theater and had the privilege of acting in But I’m Still Here at the Conrad and Shadows & Echoes in Good Girls & Badassery, and doing musical improv at Finest City Improv.
Lately, playwriting has become my passion, and I’ve been fortunate to see my work staged across San Diego—thanks to the mentorship of artists from La Jolla Playhouse and Writer’s Ink. Now, as the co-founder of The What Next? Collective, I collaborate with incredible playwrights, actors, and directors to develop bold new works. No matter the medium, I’m here to entertain, provoke, and occasionally make my mom wonder where she went wrong.
PLAYS
Cringe
Runtime: 90 minutes
WINNER: Trinity Theatre Company New Works Festival
At La Donna Brutta, an exclusive boutique where the espresso cups are tiny and the price tags are terrifying, three lives collide in a battle of style, self-worth, and reinvention.
Carly, a brilliant but fashion-averse professor, is reluctantly pulled into the world of high-end couture by her picture-perfect best friend, Skye—an influencer whose curated life is starting to unravel. Tasked with the impossible makeover is Ash, a high-strung boutique associate whose career takes an unexpected turn when couture meets catastrophe.
What begins as a birthday shopping trip spirals into a hilariously messy reckoning with aging, beauty standards, digital dating disasters, and the impossible question of who gets to take up space in the world. Between rapid-fire banter, wardrobe malfunctions, and a concerning amount of Kahlúa, the three must face the truth: some things can be tailored, but real confidence? That’s an inside job.
With rapid-fire wit and a Hacks-meets-Maisel energy, Cringe skewers generational divides, Instagram culture, and the absurdity of modern romance while celebrating the friendships that hold us together. Because at the end of the day, real confidence isn't about fitting into the perfect dress—it's about realizing you were fabulous all along.
The Mayflower Inheritance
Runtime: 120 minutes
Thanksgiving: a time for gratitude, forced small talk, and dodging personal questions between bites of stuffing. At the Mayflower house, the wine is flowing, the heirloom pumpkin pie is organic, and the conversation is… a minefield. Mimi, the family’s perennial outsider, has spent years perfecting the art of smiling through tense silences and performative allyship. But this year, something is different. Something happened to her son—something that exposes the cracks in the Mayflowers’ carefully polished façade.
As the evening spirals from Succession-level passive aggression to full-blown White Lotus chaos, long-buried tensions resurface, and polite dinner-table debates unravel into something far more personal. Between the artisanal cocktails, generational guilt, and an increasing need for bourbon, the Mayflowers must finally confront what they believe, what they pretend to believe, and what they’d rather ignore entirely.
Cutting, cathartic, and darkly funny, The Mayflower Inheritance is an exploration of privilege, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep the peace. Because nothing tests family bonds like a well-timed reckoning—especially when there’s wine involved.
Sugar Coded
Runtime: 30 minutes
FEATURED IN: The What Next? Collective’s Season 2
Jessica has spent a lifetime perfecting the art of self-sacrifice—curating bake sales, orchestrating fundraisers, and “tirelessly cultivating community.” But when her latest event reveals who really profits from her labor, she—along with her best friends Maggie and Sophie—is forced to confront an overdue question: What happens when the system you’ve spent years feeding will never actually feed you?
As tensions rise and cupcakes crumble, the women begin to see the absurdity of the game they’ve been playing. Who sets the rules? Who reaps the rewards? And why is it always the men in pressed polo shirts who walk away with the biggest slice? Faced with the choice to keep competing or rewrite the recipe for success, Jessica must decide: Is she willing to burn it all down—or is there another way to finally take a seat at the table?
Fast, ferociously funny, and sharply observed, Sugar Coded is a biting satire about gender, power, and the invisible labor that keeps communities running. With rapid-fire dialogue and laugh-out-loud wit, this play skewers the expectations —and asks what happens when you finally decide to take a slice for yourself.
Shadows and Echoes
Runtime: 10 minutes
FEATURED IN: Good Girls & Badassery
How do you write a eulogy about a man you barely knew?
When Lila Herzschlag is “voluntold” to deliver her father’s eulogy—because, as her brothers put it, she’s the girl—she finds herself alone in his den, drowning in old papers, half-baked memories, and a lifetime of unanswered questions. To the world, he was a brilliant scientist, a man of great achievements. To Lila, he was a long-distance voice on the other end of a phone, a father more myth than man.
But grief is never neat, and the truth refuses to stay buried. As she sorts through forgotten photographs and relics of a life that never fully included her, Lila sifts through the contradictions of love, abandonment, and the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the past. With sharp wit and unsparing honesty, she teeters between resentment and longing, forced to reconcile the man he was with the father he failed to be. Lila faces a choice: recite the polished version of his legacy or speak the truth.
By turns biting, poignant, and unexpectedly cathartic, Shadows and Echoes is a meditation on the complexity of family, the power of rewriting your own story, and the light that can be found in even the most disappointing relationships.
Room Service
Runtime: 10 minutes
For siblings Lila and Matt, the Albuquerque Coach Motel isn’t just a stopover—it’s a hiding place. While their mother fights a courtroom battle against their estranged father, they’re left to endure bad TV, broken air conditioning, and the slow, creeping realization that their childhood is slipping away.
Trapped in a dingy motel room in 1987, the two navigate the absurdity of their situation with dry wit, Frosted Flakes, and a deep-rooted fear of what might be waiting outside the door. But when the knocks grow louder, and the truth about becomes impossible to ignore, Lila is faced with a choice: keep hiding or finally step into the light.
Darkly funny, sharply honest, and set against the backdrop of divorce and survival, Room Service is a coming-of-age story about resilience, reckoning, and finding strength in the person who annoys you the most—your sibling.
MONOLOGUES
A Walk in the Park
Published in Shaking the Tree: But I’m Still Here
Performed at the Conrad Performing Arts Center
Runtime: 15 minutes
At thirteen, Lila knew exactly what was “wrong” with her—too short, too awkward, and too dense (according to one particularly useless ex-boyfriend). But when her stepmother enrolls her in Park Seven, a glorified modeling school wedged between a Taco Bell and a Chevron, she’s forced to endure a gauntlet of Briffanies, AquaNet, and expectations she’ll never meet.
While the other girls dream of Vogue covers and Cindy Crawford stardom, Lila dreams of jazz—her saxophone, her freedom, and the cool, effortless improvisation of Charlie Parker. The problem? Miss Clapp, the over-powdered, overly made-up instructor, doesn’t see “jazz saxophonist” as an acceptable Park Seven ambition. And Lila? She doesn’t see the point of walking the Orange Julius runway in a mall fashion show that feels more like a public execution.
A Walk in the Park is a sharp, hilarious, and deeply relatable coming-of-age story about self-acceptance, finding your rhythm, and realizing you don’t need permission to take up space.
Message in a Bottle
Runtime: 12 minutes
At Florida’s elite Shoreline Beach Club, the air is thick with salt, sunscreen, and whispered scandals. The drinks are endless, the privilege is inherited, and the illusion of perfection is as carefully maintained as the club’s manicured palms. She doesn’t belong here—not really—but for one sun-drenched afternoon, she’s a guest, slipping into a world where status is currency and appearances are everything.
Emily, however, is drowning. Once the reigning queen of this shoreline kingdom, now she’s the discarded ex, a woman left to tread water while her former life sails on without her. As the afternoon unfolds, the cracks in her carefully curated façade widen—one empty glass, one reckless choice at a time. And when she wades too deep, both literally and figuratively, her oldest friend is left to decide: Does she let Emily sink under the weight of her own self-destruction, or does she risk getting pulled down with her?
Sharp, intoxicating, and laced with dark humor, Message in a Bottle is a biting exploration of privilege, desperation, and the secrets we bury—until the tide brings them back.
Into the Strangehold
Coming soon in Shaking the Tree: But I Did It Anway
Runtime: 15 minutes
Rebecca gave up everything to be the perfect wife, the perfect mother, the perfect woman. Adam gave her nothing but secrets.
When she finds a foreclosure notice pinned to their front door, her world shatters in an instant. The home, the luxury vacations, the life she thought she had—it was all a lie. Adam hasn’t had a job in years. But confronting him doesn’t bring answers. It brings something far more dangerous.
Trapped in a marriage built on gaslighting, financial control, and suffocating dominance, Rebecca faces an impossible choice: stay and disappear into the life he’s constructed for her, or risk everything for freedom. But leaving won’t be easy. Adam’s temper is unraveling, and their son Jake is already spiraling in his own rebellion. The walls are closing in, and Rebecca is running out of time.
Taut, atmospheric, and deeply unsettling, Into the Stranglehold is a gripping psychological thriller that explores the razor-thin line between devotion and domination—and what it truly means to escape.
Trial and Error
Published in Shaking the Tree: Funny, Not Funny
Performed at the Conrad Performing Arts Center
Runtime: 15 minutes
At sixteen, Ellie isn’t dreaming about prom or college applications—she’s sitting in an Albuquerque IHOP, drowning pancakes in boysenberry syrup while trying to forget why she’s there in the first place. She’s spent her life walking a tightrope—balancing school, holding her fractured family together, and keeping her own needs buried beneath everyone else’s.
Forced to confront the past she’s tried to outrun, Ellie faces impossible choices: stay silent to keep the peace, or speak up and risk the wrath of a father who never wanted her in the first place. But as tensions explode and long-buried truths rise to the surface, she discovers something unexpected—power. Not the kind granted by a judge, but the kind she claims for herself.
Raw, sharp, and unexpectedly triumphant, Trial and Error is a coming-of-age story about finding your voice in a world that wants you quiet. Told with biting humor and gut-wrenching honesty, it explores the unspoken weight of being the child left behind—and the strength it takes to rewrite your own story.
PERFORMANCES
A Walk in the Park (Performed by Susan Clausen)
Trial and Error (Conrad Performing Arts Center)
Karyn Overstreet Cabaret (Horton Grand Theater
Minor Suspension (Performed at Finest City Improv)
