Movement-led theatre for young and intergenerational audiences
I direct and choreograph theatre that invites all audiences into rich, complex stories without simplifying the work.
My practice begins with the belief that movement is not decoration. It can reveal a character’s inner life, define relationships, shape the rhythm of a theatrical world, and communicate what words alone cannot.
Whether I am developing an original musical or reimagining a licensed Broadway work, I look for the physical language that belongs specifically to that production. I am interested in how an ensemble can become essential to the storytelling and how movement can give audiences multiple ways to enter, understand, and interpret a story.
At the center of my work is a simple belief: Accessibility does not require simplification.
Children are capable of engaging with layered stories, complicated feelings, and bold theatrical ideas. My goal is to create work that is playful, emotionally honest, visually expressive, and worthy of the full attention of both children and the adults attending with them.
A Sustained Body of Work
At 92NY, I have directed, choreographed, and produced more than twenty original musicals and new adaptations for young and intergenerational audiences.
Each production has been developed in collaboration with talented book writers, lyricists, composers, designers, performers, and educators. My role is to bring those contributions together into a unified theatrical world- shaping the storytelling through direction, choreography, staging, and the work of the ensemble.
I have also reimagined a wide range of licensed musicals, approaching familiar material through a movement-led lens while honoring the original text, music, and spirit of the work.
Selected Productions
The following productions represent three areas of my artistic practice: creating original work centered on identity and belonging, developing musicals for a child’s first theatrical experience, and reimagining licensed Broadway musicals through movement and ensemble storytelling.
Messy Millie (Theater for Young Audiences)
An original musical about neurodivergence, identity, and belonging.
Movement makes Millie’s experience of time, expectations, and relationships visible while the story affirms that learning new tools does not require a child to become less fully herself.
Red Riding Hood: The Musical (Theater for the very young)
A familiar story reimagined through music, movement, and theatrical play.
Created as an introduction to musical theatre for young audiences, the production uses an ensemble of actor-dancers, physical comedy, transformation, and visual storytelling to invite children into the imaginative world of the performance.
Little Women: The Broadway Musical (Broadway Reimagined)
A licensed Broadway musical reimagined through physical and ensemble storytelling.
Each March sister was paired with a movement counterpart who made visible the feelings, memories, and ambitions that could not always be spoken. This second physical narrative deepened the story while allowing the musical’s text and score to remain at its center.
Original Musicals and New Adaptations
Messy Millie; Alice in Wonderland; Red Riding Hood: The Musical; The Ice Queen; The Tempest; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Adventure in Neverland; What Do You Do with an Idea?; Mother Goose; Dorothy’s Adventures in Oz; Lulu the Broadway Mouse; A Is for Audra; Goldilocks and the S-E-V-E-N Dwarfs; The Velveteen Rabbit; The Kandinsky Project; Making BKJKT; and three Lyrics & Lyricists Jr. productions celebrating Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and new musical-theatre writing. Coming Soon: Violet’s Magic Glasses: A New Musical, All-of-A-Kind Family, Rapunzel
Reimagined Licensed Musicals
Little Women: The Broadway Musical; A Year with Frog and Toad; Disney & Cameron Mackintosh’s Mary Poppins; James and the Giant Peach; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Junie B. Jones: The Musical; Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School; Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Tuck Everlasting; Wanda’s Monster; and The Little Mermaid. This Season: Seussical The Musical, Annie, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The SpongeBob Musical