I make up stories. Fantastical, darkly comedic, unsettling stories. Stories that explore Black womanhood and mental health in the spit and spirit of childhood tales.
VAGABONDING SINCE 2011
Long ago, I sold all my stuff and left Northern Calif. to travel across Southeast Asia. I’ve been nomadic ever since, living out of a bloated backpack in India, Kenya, Austria, Peru, and beyond — often looking after uncanny creatures while shaping my craft.
THINGS FOR THEATER
Plays I’ve written have been produced by Fade To Black Play Fest, The Navigators, MOJOAA Performing Arts, and others. The Incredible Darling(s), a tale about conjoined sisters, was awarded the SLF Gulliver Travel Grant and is a 2023 Bay Area Playwrights Festival semifinalist.
FROLICKING IN FILM
My feature screenplay So Unfair, an anthology of remixed fairytales, has been supported by the SFFILM Rainin Grant and Djerassi Fellowship, and “Stranded” (a part of the feature) won the best screenplay award at BlackStar Film Fest.
In 2021, I found my way to directing through my debut short film, “Daraluz,” a haunting and poetic tale set in Central Mexico. The short won the best film award at entertwine, WOCU, and Shudder’s inaugural 48-Hour Horror Film Fest.
OTHER STUFF
Outside of theater and film, I have travel tales and photography featured in Ebony.com, The New York Times, and Whole Life Times, with poetry forthcoming in Obsidian and Vagabond City.
NOW
In Central Mexico with a dog and cat, seven hens, and a husband, I’m developing a feature film.