I am a 24 year old playwright, actor, and musician. I was born in Manchester, I went to high school at the Greater Hartford Arts Academy studying musical theatre, before continuing my studies at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. I also am active in the Connecticut DIY scene, playing a variety of instruments in multiple bands (including Litvar, a project that reached the NACC top 200 chart and toured nationally for 3 months out of the last year). I have engineered and produced for several bands and independent artists in Connecticut, frequently serving as a session musician. For years I have served as an educator, previously working as an assistant music director for CAST children’s theatre, and teaching public speaking through theatrical literature at Westfield Academy of Speech and Debate. Until its closing in august 2022, I worked on the management, booking, and production and sound team at the Rednawa Collective in Middletown, who hosted over 100 local shows in just over a year, featuring artists local to international. For the past year I have served as a private vocal instructor at the Rock House school of music in Wallingford and West Haven, also teaching guitar, bass, songwriting, and piano, I also am on the leadership/outreach ambassador team for New England Cabaret Theatre. During the pandemic I was lucky enough to be cast in Rat Queen Theatre’s devised original piece “The Goddamn Tooney Lunes” originating the role of Charlie, the piece premiered in Brooklyn and was the last film to be presented at the New York Indie Theatre Film Festival in 2023. In 2018 I was discovering my identity, I left college. Broke and frustrated at the general lack of positive or competent representation of queer and transgender people in contemporary American theatre, consequently: I started working on a punk rock concept record about three queer musicians grappling with the loss of their bassist. I started having bi-weekly readings that turned into virtual devising sessions and after 5 years, with the help of a dedicated cast and creative team, we are finally presenting our first public reading of ‘No Cover’ in October at Cheney Hall in Manchester as part of LTM’s Evenings @7 series.