ARTIST’S STATEMENT

In Artaud’s essay, The Theatre and the Plague, we are desperate. Unguided social performance leaves our bodies clanging against each other, milling aimlessly from attempt to attempt. The agony of contradiction touches us all- yet we are often too afraid to name it.

“If the essential theatre is like the plague, it is not because it is contagious, but because like the plague it is the revelation, the bringing forth.”

This reality guided me to Theatre. Reaching to find communal honesty, the only thing that made sense was to pretend. Good Theatre requires each collaborator to embrace the nuance of themselves and others on a radical level, even if we do not fully understand that which we work to hold.

I deal in abjection, whether the setting be comedic, dramatic, or something else entirely. Much of the work I am drawn to both as a creator and consumer involves ambiguity, darkness, and the radically transgressive. Stylistically, I draw from the horrific, in-yer-face, absurdist, sexy, clownish, wordless, raunchy, the pitch black comedically. Anything that fully embraces the taboo nature of queerness, the feminist, and/or what it means to be outcasted.

From my perspective, impulse is all.

The most life-changing stories I have encountered are brimming with contradiction, repulsion, and frustration. That is how I believe we can embolden ourselves to be complicated individuals with much to say, and that is how things can come into focus.