An experiential, expansive theatre piece guiding audiences (literally) through tender topics. An immersive mixture of live storytelling, physical movement, and audience invitations, Meeting Our Desires explores how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has affected our relationships to sexuality and intimacy. Playing with aesthetic and somatic elements like distance, proximity, meditative walks, and the energetic reciprocity of trees, I led a devising ensemble to build this production specifically in and for Walking Stick Woods in North Park Village Nature Center.

Based on histories of real-life women of color and non-Eurocentric fairytales, Epic Tales from the Land of Melanin tells a hilarious, imaginative adventure tale of three young warrior-explorers taking on the world! Along the journey, our fierce young heroes must attempt to reclaim the power that was stolen from them and their people. Through audience participation, young audiences will help the heroes defeat monsters and evil forcefields, reaching their goals by activating the forces of community support and action.

​This participatory theatre for young audiences play explores themes of displacement, discrimination, consent, colonization, and queer love and skills like organizing, self-care, calling on our ancestors and more — all through an age-appropriate lens.