FULL BIO

I am an interdisciplinary performance artist, intimacy coordinator, and movement director working across live performance, film, and visual art. My practice centers the body as a site of meaning-making—where intimacy, memory, pleasure, grief, and power converge through movement, image, and relational encounter.

Rooted in dance-theater, devised performance, burlesque, clown, and physical theater, my work moves between rigorous structure and embodied play. I'm drawn to experiences that are sensual and deeply human—where vulnerability becomes a source of agency, connection, and transformation.

Training & Approach

I hold a B.A. in Dance & Movement Studies and Theater from Emory University and an M.F.A. in Devised Performance Practice from Pig Iron Theatre Company/University of the Arts. My training includes Lecoq-based physical theater, ballet, contemporary and street-dance-theater forms, burlesque and cabaret, and video/film visual performance. These practices shape how I understand agency, consent, power, humor, and vulnerability—in both artistic inquiry and professional practice.

I am a Certified Intimacy Coordinator through IDC Professionals (SAG-AFTRA accredited) and currently serve as Visiting Assistant Professor of Movement at UConn. This work informs but does not limit my artistic practice; intimacy is not simply a service I provide, but a core lens through which I understand art-making, direction, and care.

Artistic Research

My artistic practice investigates intimacy as both subject and method: how bodies hold experience, how desire and loss coexist, and how meaning emerges through close attention to sensation, gesture, and presence. I'm particularly interested in the body as landscape—its textures, histories, and thresholds—and in the fertile tension between the erotic and the grotesque as sites of beauty, humor, rupture, and repair.

I work collaboratively and relationally, developing long-term, process-driven projects that blend oral history, ritual, choreography, and visual research. Whether through live performance, immersive environments, or installation, I create conditions that invite audiences into heightened states of attention—where private memory becomes shared experience and spectatorship becomes encounter.

My performance work and visual research are deeply intertwined. Film and multimedia projects often emerge as distilled or translated forms of live performance, allowing embodied questions to persist beyond the moment of liveness. Working with archive, image, material, sound, and close-up framing, I explore how bodies record experience over time and how we come to see ourselves through intimate, surreal, and recontextualized visual framings.

Projects such as Good Grief! and the ongoing Grief Snake Skin research exemplify this approach. These works weave together movement, burlesque, oral history, and visual texture to examine grief not as private pathology, but as communal, sensorial, and relational process—one that makes room for humor, erotic charge, and meaning-making as forms of survival.

Collaboration & Community

I am co-director of Rough & Tumble Productions, a Philadelphia-based performance collective dedicated to interdisciplinary, process-driven work. Through Rough & Tumble, I create and curate performances, workshops, and immersive events—including an annual Grief Cabaret and fundraiser—that bring together artists, audiences, and care practitioners to explore ephemerality, sensuality, grief, and collective meaning-making.

I see my practice as an evolving body of work—one that embraces risk, humor, and vulnerability while blurring disciplinary boundaries. Whether coordinating intimacy on set, directing movement for the stage, developing new performance installations, or creating socially engaged visual research, I am committed to making work that is intimate, rigorous, and alive to the complexities of being honestly human—together.