performance scholar

I am a scholar-artist who explores the dramaturgical significance of intimacy on stage and the act of kissing as an affective dramaturgical device in Western drama.

My master’s thesis, “Intimate Planets: An Intradisciplinary Dramaturgical Methodology for Performances of Theatrical Intimacy,” articulates my approach as a dramaturgically-informed intimacy practitioner and an intimacy-aware dramaturg. The work finds its theoretical basis in Elinor Fuchs’ “EF’s Visit to a Small Planet: Some Questions to Ask a Play,” Chelsea Pace’s “Ingredients,” and Irmgard Bartenieff’s Fundamentals.

My work can be read in The Journal of Consent-Based Performance and the volume Dramaturgies of the Real World, forthcoming from Routledge in Fall 2026.

I have had the pleasure of sharing my work at several conferences as a graduate student, including annual meetings of the American Society for Theatre Research, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and the Mid-America Theatre Conference.

My secondary research interests include intimacy is/as performance, the audience as voyeur, the intersection of affect theory and performance, and bisexual representation on stage.

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