As a playwright and theatre-maker, I am interested in immersive shows within which the audience presence becomes part of the aesthetic. I love exploring sound-based interruptions and interventions in connection with being site-sympathetic. I write autobiographical text that gets soaked in fantasy, am accidentally funny and approach magic realism as a style. My plays are weird, wonderful, disturbing and poetic.
I am a critical perfectionist who adores unfinished business and never-ending process, works-in-progress and the courage it takes to be vulnerable. I am a stubborn know-it-all who has learned how to take feedback and a ridiculously sensitive person with a complicated defense system that gets in my own way. I like to entertain wild thoughts and dysfunctional ideas, as well as repeat mistakes to make sure they are still just that.
I want to create pieces that allow for space to exist as a flawed human-being, that reveal shared wounds we hide out of shame and explore forms that let different contexts appear. I want to make theatre through which we become a bit lighter, our darkness a bit more acceptable, and our struggle a bit more doable. I want to challenge, but softly, gently, in a way that makes difficult easy to approach.
“This challenging theme is met with kind and unblinking forthrightness that is most discernable in instances of audience interaction. Impressively high levels of creativity and delicacy are especially shown in designing audience interactions – -“
Feedback on the script of It’s True I Love You All So Much
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“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
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