Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

I combine archival and interdisciplinary research with experimental processes to create performance writing invested in genre, ritual, and collective live experience. My practice engages poets theater and street theater, soap opera and myth, performance art and communal improvisation. I explore counternarrative, the transmission of cultural memory, and the possibilities and limits of camp in plays about queer and trans life. My books theorize the performance novel as a score/site that blurs boundaries between page and stage, agitating conventional form and affect to activate poetry as an embodied, everyday practice.

While at Headlands

While at Headlands, I will continue work on two plays and a book about art and fantasy.