My Offerings

A new storytelling and theatre initiative in Chicago focused on new work and narratives that haven’t been represented on stage.

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I work with playwrights and artists providing support from a dramaturgical and developmental lens, from your earliest ideas through final revisions. Together, we can explore structure, deepen themes, and strengthen your narrative through script reviews, collaborative conversations, and facilitated readings. The goal: to work beside

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Available freelance, case by case basis; menu things she can offer, including actor packets, lobby displays. Digital or professional work bring deep research skills and years of facilitation and teaching experience into spaces where artists and students explore their craft. Topics range from narrative theory and dramatic structure to cultural representation and new-work development, always leaning into academic rigor and experience to create conversations that are critically engaged, accessible, and rooted in context.

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I curate programming, panels, and new-play initiatives that center emerging voices, particularly SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) and global-majority artists. Whether developing thematic series, crafting engagement strategies, or building bridges with community parters, my approach emphasizes accessibility, cultural stewardship, and intentional framing of stories that are often elided.

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I create frameworks and facilitate spaces of growth and in-depth symposiums about culture, history, and dramaturgy. Whether leading workshops about cultural specificity in a show or informing groups of histories that are unknown to them I work with various communities to provide context and resources on various topics.

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I support organizations and creative teams in expanding ethical representation of SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) cultures, histories, and communities. This includes providing cultural context, sensitivity reviews, and guidance on language, traditions, sociopolitical nuance, and diasporic perspectives. Whether it’s a script review, casting advice, or partnership guidance, I make sure the work aligns with lived experiences and not stereotypes.

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This work reflects my long-standing commitment to community art events, youth programming, and socially engaged theatre. I’ve led art showcases, designed programming for schools and community organizations, coordinated festivals, and developed audience guides. In all of it, the priority is inclusivity, capacity-building, and access to connect communities that aren't just audiences, but co-performers and collaborators.

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Past guest lectures of speaking engagements include: Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago, James Madison University, the University of Oregon, Baylor University, the Kennedy Center/KCACTF and the Imagine This Theater podcast.

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