I am a composer and performer based in Queens. I make big lush things that resemble musicals, and follow many rules and bedrock principles associated with musicals. However unlike traditional book musicals, in my shows, the scores are their engine, which defy preconceptions around sound and genre.
My Moby-Dick rock opera Kill The Whale has seen development at Joe's Pub, Yaddo, Montclair State University Peak Performances, Polyphone Festival, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Corkscrew Festival, NYU, the Melville bi-Centennial Conference, and Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, and has received funding through the American Theatre Wing, the Saw Recording Grants, and the NYFA.
My sophomore project, Mind Canary: A Freudian Musical, is a musical dreamscape around Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, and is set in the Freudian dream space. PEAK Performances at MSU has commissioned from me a second draft. It has also seen development at Adelphi University, the Good Hart Residency, Yaddo, and the emergence residency at the Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City.
I've also been commissioned to compose music for the Hong Kong Arts Fesival (2021), and Catskills Mountain Shakespeare (2025).
I’m a 2023 Jonathan Larson grant recipient, a 2023 Saw recording grant recipient, a 2023 NYFA grant recipient, and a 2023 CREATE finalist with the American Composer's Forum.
I sometimes tour as a banjoist, and I write down every dream I can remember.
I've worked or performed with Sam Bush, Ingrid Michaelson, Dave Malloy, Nathaniel Philbrick, Grace McLean, Amber Gray, Rachel Chavkin, Samantha Pauly, yadda yadda yadda.
My Moby-Dick rock opera Kill The Whale has seen development at Joe's Pub, Yaddo, Montclair State University Peak Performances, Polyphone Festival, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Corkscrew Festival, NYU, the Melville bi-Centennial Conference, and Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, and has received funding through the American Theatre Wing, the Saw Recording Grants, and the NYFA.
My sophomore project, Mind Canary: A Freudian Musical, is a musical dreamscape around Sigmund Freud and Anna Freud, and is set in the Freudian dream space. PEAK Performances at MSU has commissioned from me a second draft. It has also seen development at Adelphi University, the Good Hart Residency, Yaddo, and the emergence residency at the Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City.
I've also been commissioned to compose music for the Hong Kong Arts Fesival (2021), and Catskills Mountain Shakespeare (2025).
I’m a 2023 Jonathan Larson grant recipient, a 2023 Saw recording grant recipient, a 2023 NYFA grant recipient, and a 2023 CREATE finalist with the American Composer's Forum.
I sometimes tour as a banjoist, and I write down every dream I can remember.
I've worked or performed with Sam Bush, Ingrid Michaelson, Dave Malloy, Nathaniel Philbrick, Grace McLean, Amber Gray, Rachel Chavkin, Samantha Pauly, yadda yadda yadda.
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