The work I crave is dynamic, messy, and exciting. In a practice rooted in community and integrity, theatre is a doorway to joy, truth, and healing.

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I lean on the Michael Chekhov Technique, Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, clowning, and Latin American mischief. To me, stories are a way to open hearts and spark conversation. By embracing the sheer chaos, pain, and beauty of being human, I honor the ancestral technology of oral storytelling that allows us to connect.

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As a director, I’m drawn to theatrical abundance, grounded in clear action and a strong dramatic spine. My rooms are playful, collaborative, and generative, but also rigorous: I’m always asking what a choice is doing, what it reveals, where it directs the audience’s attention, and how it moves the story forward.

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For each production, I work toward a theatrical grammar specific to that world: a shared language of action, rhythm, image, sound, and movement that allows the story to be bold, surprising, and alive. I am obsessed with legibility, and with what Ariano Suassuna calls the juxtaposition of the “grotesque and the sublime”: the collision of beauty, absurdity, pain, and wonder that makes human existence so formidable and so worth protecting.

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Everything is political. I approach theatre in service: through intentional casting, centering the collective, and fostering reciprocity between artists, audiences, and communities. I believe in rigorous love, holding both tenderness and accountability, so that theatre becomes a space where empathy can grow, voices are heard, and dialogue bridges divides.

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Every production asks the “why here, why now”: why this story matters in this time, for this community, and for the world we share. I aim to honor the essential act of lifting a story from the page - the ritual of coming together with living, breathing people, and the craft that surprises us and reveals something deeper about ourselves in the audience.

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My work as an artist and educator seeks to empower those telling the story, enrich the lives of the people it touches, and open space for reflection, connection, and action.

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