You Deserve to Be Here

• Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Commission

• Goodman Playwrights Unit Commission

• Bruntwood Prize For Playwriting 2022 - LONGLIST

• National Playwrights Conference 2023 - SEMIFINALIST

• Blue Ink Playwriting Award 2024 - SEMIFINALIST

• World Premiere Production Summer 2027 - Red Theater + City Lit Theater, Chicago, IL

(Horror/Suspense) Meet the “Tragedy Cohort”: Memo survived a war. Oona lost her sister. And Chase is a legacy student with anxiety. Only one can win their grad school’s top prize, bestowed upon whoever pens the Bravest Trauma Narrative. But as Oona, the newbie, advances through the school year, she can’t shake the feeling that something is off. Her writing is better, so why is she worse? And did that mural of Anne Frank just move? A horror comedy about artistic tragedy.