Writing + Dramaturgy
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The Emerald Palimpsest
SUBSTACK, 2025 (ongoing!)
A dramaturgical twister of a slow read through
L. Frank Baum's 1900 classic, The Wizard of Oz!
"Because parchment was expensive and hard to come by, ancient writers would partially efface writings deemed useless/irrelevant and cover them with new words, creating a palimpsest. Barnet refers to adaptation as a ‘palimpsestuous’ act because “the residue or trace of previous writing/staging is inescapable”. But my favorite way she describes a palimpsest is as a haunting. I believe The Wizard of Oz, in both its countless adaptations and its pop culture explosion, perpetually creates its own palimpsest."
Come Back Georgia, Come Back
BUZZSAW IS CHEUGY, DECEMBER 2024
A short story about gnome-like old men, bad times at the Scholastic Book Fair, paradoxical lucidity, and sneaking scrapes of raw cookie dough.
"Whenever anyone cracked open a specific brand of Bath & Body Works hand sanitizer, she got unwillingly catapulted back to that time she peed herself at the second grade Scholastic Book Fair. Lydia Nguyen made a valiant attempt at diffusing one strong scent with another by sacrificing the entirety of her swanky keychain hand sanitizer to the puddle for the cause! …But it just smelled like Twisted Peppermint piss. To this day, when Georgia pees, she always feels a little festive."
Heroes of the Fourth Turning Packet
THE CHERRY ARTSPACE, FEBRUARY 2024
A tactful + readable dramaturgy packet for a play overwhelmed by insider language. It features contextualizing information on fugues, race plays, eclipses, & what I call the four horsemen of the alt-right gender apocalypse: cowboy, church girl, soyboy, girlboss.
"Although the term ‘race play’ usually functions to reduce works made by people of color, Arbery is invested in Heroes being called a race play: a play about whiteness. He argues that there is a “fortified inarticulation around whiteness in America”, so he has made the decision to “vivisect” (a word used to describe the dissection of live animals) his race."
Collateral Parenting
W/ EMMA SHACOCHIS, 2017-Present
Started as a high school drama project, Emma and I periodically one-upped each other with our soap-opera-murder-mystery about PTA mommies.
"SUSIE: Bethany, are you sure we can use your car?
BETHANY: Please. Do you know how many kids climb through that thing on a daily basis? Sometimes we don't even know them—they just assume we're either a school bus or an unmarked van they can get kidnapped in. Between all that and the two pounds of loose, stale Cheerios and Takis that are on every surface? Good luck getting so much as a clean hair out of there. I nearly lost my leg trying to vacuum its carpets once, and when I got out, there was a pouch-worth of applesauce in my bra."
