I call myself a “Swiss army knife of arts, education, and culture” because I got tired of saying I’m a Playwright, Producer, Performer, Researcher, Educator, Aspiring TV writer, Facilitator, Business Owner, and all around Creative. 

My plays most often interrogate cultural legacies, familial healing, spirituality + ancestral wisdom, and the general kicking and screaming of how Black folks get free despite the oppressive forces of colonialism, capitalism, and white supremacy.  You’ll see more of my researcher, producer, and performer here.

My TV writing is a lot lighter than that but no less important. Typically I write about people trying to figure out. Whether they’re hyper independent bi-cultural college students or agnostic artists arriving in New York the comedy is found in the way they learn and unlearn themselves. 

My Teaching/ Facilitating is done both institutionally with Partnership with Children, Dreamyard, Manhattan Theatre Club, and The Apollo and independently.

My Business Narrative Well is a storytelling, learning, and facilitation hub that helps people and institutions excavate, shape, and steward meaningful narratives (especially those rooted in Black history, cultural memory, social emotional learning, and lived experience) for purposes of education, reflection, and transformation.

Bio:

I am “Whadup Doe'“ and “Wah Gwan” a 5th generation African-American Detroiter through my father’s side and a first generation Jamaican through my mothers. 

My plays have been workshopped and performed Off-Broadway at The Connelly Theatre, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, as well as JACK, Sanguine Theatre Company, Blackboard Playwriting series, Lime Arts Theatre company, American Slavery Project, The Obie Award-winning Harlem9 and Detroit Public Theatre Company, Dixon Place, Workshop Theatre, Barter Theatre Company, The National Women's Theatre Festival, The Brick, and more! I was a 2023 Broadway Advocacy Coalition Artivism fellow.  A 2023 New Harmony Project finalist, 2023 Catskills Creative Residency finalist. A 2024 finalist for the Eugene O’neill NPC for her play “At God’s Back”. I was a 2024 NYSAF Founders Award finalist, in the 2024/2025 Civilians R&D Group, 2024/25 Artistic Research Fellow at The Folger in DC, was most recently the 2024/25 JACKLabs Artist and a 2026 Hedgebrook Writers Retreat recipient. My work has been featured in the Caribbean Art and Dialogue book Forgotten Lands volume 7. She has presented at The CASEL conference 2026, SXSW EDU 2026, and American Alliance for Theatre Education Conference several times. She works as a teaching artist for Partnership With Children, Dreamyard, Manhattan Theatre Club, and The Apollo.