multi-hyphenate arts worker.
I am a
I graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in Creative Writing and Drama: Performance. I have gigged, recorded and performed as a singer/songwriter, acted in lead roles in both film and theatre, and done a lot of autodidactic self-led artistic experimentation across media.
I act, write, sing, direct, and dance.
My 20’s were largely dedicated to Art And Art Alone. To finding edges and hurling myself into the liminal. To the jet fueled curiosity practice in which I denied death’s existence and fancied myself maybe-a-god (haven’t we all? oh the joys of a not yet fully developed prefrontal cortex!).
In contrast, the theme of my 30’s has been sustainability or: How To Acknowledge Death And Live Fully In The Face Of It. I slowed way down at the burgeoning of a new decade of life and the spirits of grief and languishing came up. I reckoned with the world we live in and where I fit into it. This is what I found:
A belief that creativity is the birthright of all human beings. That acts of imagination, making, deconstructing, reconstructing, and play are all natural urges which keep our bodies supple, our minds agile, our hearts open, our energies flowing and our spirits receptive.
A belief that by healing, we can heal. By creating, we can make space for others to do the same. By staying educated, we can educate the next generation and each other. And through this deeper understanding, we can build a cleaner, kinder world, we can make our own myths, we can exercise new rituals that make us stronger and softer and more in touch with the divine.
A belief that living in this patriarchal, late stage capitalist environment necessitates radical and anarchic practices in order to return to ourselves and to each other. Those of us dedicated to this return all serve different roles under the umbrella of revolution.