about

I’m a composer, pianist, singer and educator originally from Washington, DC and currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Writing primarily for theater, I’ve written music and lyrics for two musicals that have seen small workshop productions: the first, What Comes Next, started as my senior thesis at Yale and later was performed as a MainStage production at Phillips Exeter Academy in 2021. The second, Something in the Water, received a staged reading at Exeter in 2024. I wrote both shows with my writing partner, playwright Noah T. Parnes. Together, our work centers queer stories and seeks to bring new vernaculars to the stage. Independently, I’m working on my master’s thesis, how would you have us: a song cycle adapting text from Black American authors between Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance, including James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ida B. Wells, and more.

I taught choir at Exeter and at Avenues: The World School, and I’ve written and arranged music for New York City Center, the Princeton Playhouse Choir, the Trenton Youth Singers, and Touch of Blue: New American Vocal Ensemble. I have music directed showcases and one-person shows, including queer-, drag-, and poc-centered cabarets.

I graduated from Yale in 2019 with a BA in Music and received the Aretha Franklin Prize for Performing Arts. I will receive my MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from New York University in 2026.