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BRAWL!
Dug into the backyard of Diesel Philips’ home is The Pit: the home and training ground for young boxers in the Mowbray Mountain valley. Here, limbs lock until a bell dings or a body drops. Here, loving looks a lot like fighting. And here, boys don’t leave; they escape.
Cast: 5
Run time: 90 minutes
Development
WORKSHOP READING, The Understudy / Raven Theatre (2024)
AWARD, Finalist, Ojai Playwrights Conference (2025)
AWARD, Semi-Finalist, Seven Devils Playwriting Conference (2025)
AWARD, Semi-Finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference (2025)
AWARD, Semi-Finalist, The Road Theater Summer Playwrights Festival (2025)
AWARD, Semi-Finalist for GPS, Shattered Globe Theatre (2022)
Gnawbone
Gnawbone: an unincorporated community where the taps run red, the soybean fields hum with industrial excavators, and the news anchors keep smiling.
A play about loyalty and the voices that call you home.
Cast: 6
Run time: 90 minutes
Development
READING, RedTwist Theatre (2026)
WORKSHOP, Jackalope Theatre (2023)
Boxed In
For more than 15 years, John and Louise have been torn between uprooting themselves and the lives they know and planting themselves even deeper into their house and routine. But after tragedy strikes, husband and wife must determine whether bodies can ever be laid to rest and if memories are enough to bring a house to its knees.
Cast: 2
Run time: 90 minutes
Development
EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTION, DePaul Univ. (2020)
WORKSHOP READING, DePaul Univ. (2019)
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
I write plays that compete with concerts.
I write plays that shine a light on rural Americana.
I write plays that feature the unexplainable loyalty to high school football teams, the hangovers spiraled into porta-potties at 3AM, the yank of a hometown, and what happens when all of that collides.
I write plays that sound designers would kill to work on.
I write plays that buck Freytag's pyramid.
I write plays about family: nuclear, lost, and found.
I write plays about these things because I'm an immigrant. Because my birth parents will never see what I look like. Because my life is better now than it would've been, and because I still lost something when I crossed the Atlantic with my mother.
I write plays that I wanted to see.
ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
IN THE ROOM
Beyond writing — inside the producing, casting, and dramaturgy process.
CO-FOUNDER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF @ The Plotter (2026)
SCRIPT READER @ The Understudy/Freshly Brewed (2025/26)
DRAMATURG @ Theatre L’Acadie (2025)
PLAYWRIGHT POOL WRITER @ Playground Theatre Chicago (2024)
SCRIPT READER @ Raven Theatre (2024)
PRODUCING ASSOCIATE @ iO Theatre (2020/21)
CASTING ASSOCIATE @ TimeLine Theatre (2020/21)