Upcoming

COSMIC DOCKS - SUMMER 2026 TOUR

• July 24: HOT Festival at Dixon Place (NYC) - TICKETS HERE

• August 14: Queer Narratives Festival in Kansas City on a shared bill with Miana Abramson - more info here!

Fall 2026: Anticipated premiere of In Every Single Room, a new queer coming-of-age short film

Spring 2027: Swine Ball, a new dance-theater performance, premieres in Chicago with support from Chicago Dancemakers Forum

Recent

April 2026: Another Word for Sandbar WON in the Narrative Feature category at pitch competition at the Zeitgeist Minnesota Film Festival in Duluth! Thanks so much to the Zeitgeist team and the judges for having us, it was a total honor and delight!

March 2026: Sharp Cheddar/Professor Shred performance at WE THE PEOPLE: A People’s Salon with Illinois Humanities, Haymarket House in Chicago

February 2026: Completed production on In Every Single Room short film

December 2025: Cosmic Docks at the INVERSE Performance Art Festival at The Momentary in Bentonville, AR, curated by Emma Saperstein and Cynthia Post Hunt

November 2025: Solo Performance Workshop at the University of Chicago

October 2025: Sharp Cheddar at Performance Mixtape #3, Chicago

September 2025: Cosmic Docks at the Cannonball Festival in Philadelphia

July 2025: Sharp Cheddar at the one-night return of Salonathon, Beauty Bar, Chicago

June 2025: Initial production on new documentary film LINKS LAST about the last day at Chicago performance venue Links Hall

June 2025: “Without it, we are doomed” - publication of interview/profile of queer elder and activist Leslie Cagan in WUSSY Mag Vol. 14

May 2025: Sharp Cheddar’s drag premiere at Notes on Masculinity hosted by Po’Chop and Switch the Boi Wonder at Links Hall

April 2025: Guest facilitating the free workshop “How to Talk About Your Art” with Gender Fucked Productions, April 7 in Chicago

March 2025: World premiere of Cosmic Docks at the Spotlight Festival at the Dance Center of Columbia College.

January 2025:

• Oberlin Screenwriters Intensive, Oberlin, OH

• Production Residency for Cosmic Docks at the Dance Center of Columbia College

Further back

2024

2024 Lab Artist with Chicago Dancemakers Forum

December 2024: World premiere screening of The Real Dance - Season 2 (+ rescreening of Season 1), featuring Tuli + Tithi Bera, Lichen Bouboushian, & Alison Kopit, at FACETS Chicago.

August 2024: In residence working on Swine Ball at the Chicago Performance Lab at the University of Chicago, with playwright/dramaturg Hal Cosentino and collaborating performers Sophie Allen, Claire Binguit, Emma Linderman, Grace McCants, Zach Nicol, and Sara Zalek

June 2024: Understudy for Algernon in Strawdog Theatre’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest

June 2024: DISCIPLINE, a new one-hour one-them-show about financial complicity, tentative transmasculinity, and the men you wished would love you back, at Steppenwolf Theatre’s LookOut Series

2023

Queer|Art Mentorship Fellow in Performance working with director and choreographer Will Davis

November 2023: Invited work-in-progress showing of Cosmic Docks (formerly known as Origin Story) at Rattlestick Theater, NYC, presented with Queer|Art

October 2023: Presented talk/embodied workshop Slouching Towards Technique: Gender dysphoria, physical correctness, and sense of belonging in dance class at the American Dancing Bodies Symposium at Columbia College

August - September 2023: Sharp Tank, a series of casual works-in-progress + conversation, Episodes 1-3 on Thursdays 8/31, 9/14, and 9/21 at 7pm at bim bom studios, 5226 W. Belmont, Chicago. More info HERE.

July 2023: Rootstock Residency with Grace McCants at The Croft, MI

July 2023: Excerpt-in-progress of DISCIPLINE at Physical Theater Festival’s Scratch Night

June 2023: Excerpt of Cosmic Docks at New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix Festival, Abrons Arts Center, NY

May 2023: Queer|Art Mentorship Fellows retreat at Stephen Petronio Residency Center, NY

April 2023: Dramaturg for Julie Crothers’ residency at MANCC, FL

March 2023: Excerpt from Cosmic Docks and screening of The Real Dance - Episode 2 at Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival (RAD Fest), Kalamazoo, MI