selected works

In December 2024, I was featured in the Playbill Songwriter Series, which featured Alaina Anderson, Gillian Jackson Han, Kite Shepherd, Kenyon Duncan, Noah Parnes, and Heath Saunders singing songs from What Comes Next and Something in the Water. You can watch the video or read more here.

Something in the Water is the newest musical I’m writing with my collaborator, playwright and librettist Noah T. Parnes. When wealthy out-of-towners begin their annual descent upon Lake Town, three young Locals decide to scare off these “Lakers” once and for all by pretending the lake is inhabited by a monster of their creation. But things really start to get weird when they start to believe there really is something hiding in Lake Town beyond their control.

This show is our response to a political environment that increasingly feeds on conspiracy and paranoia at a fever pitch — what happens if we can only find unity by turning the unknown and unfamiliar into monsters to rally against?

Something in the Water received a staged reading at Phillips Exeter Academy in May 2024.

I Can Feel It
The Taffy Song

What Comes Next follows the Fisher family after and before the death of their son, Max. Told in three acts, three birthdays, and three years out of chronological order, this show is about moving through a life full of the unexpected, watching your world fall apart around you, and trying to continue on anyway.

This was my first collaboration with Noah T. Parnes and started as my senior thesis at Yale before seeing a small workshop production at Phillips Exeter Academy in March 2021.

The Best in You
One Whole Year

how would you have us is a song cycle of original music featuring text written by late 19th- and early 20th-century Black American authors. The poems, novels, essays, plays, pamphlets, and stories adapted here were almost all written between 1892 and 1929 through the early years of the Harlem Renaissance, including Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Martia Bonner, and more.

This video uses clips from my thesis presentation in May 2026 and features Troy Anthony, Allyson Kaye Daniel, Kiena Williams, Kenyon Duncan, and Stephen Scott Wormley.

other works

Brown Stars (2026) — co-written with Wesley Hudson
Alto and piano. Written for New York City Center in collaboration with the Ali Forney Center.

Glad that you’re here (2026) — text by Jacob Cordas
SAT and piano. Written for New York City Center in collaboration with OutSmartNYC.

A Glass of Rain (2023) — text by Danny Germino-Watnick
SATB a cappella.



A Glass of Rain


Moon River (2022)
TTTBB. Arranged for Doox of Yale.