A co-production of KPFT Houston and Rice University’s Center for Environmental Studies, I created, host, and produce Gulf Streams, a weekly radio program and podcast. The show explores environmental challenges, solutions, and ideas around Houston, the Gulf Coast, and internationally. Guests on the program include government officials from the City of Houston and Harris County, nationally recognized artists and thinkers (like Pulitzer Prize Finalist Elizabeth Rush), internationally reknowned academics, and local advocates and activists. Through the project I mentor student researchers and showcase graduate students and faculty research frequently. You can catch up on Gulf Streams on Spotify or Apple Podcasts.

From Extraction to Regeneration is a video series with activists, non-profit leaders, and leading academics discussing the keywords of “Extraction” and “Regeneration” in their work. Featured videos include conversations with the Houston Climate Justice Museum, The Nature Conservancy, Blackwood Education Land Institute, Gökće Günel, and Macarena Gómez-Barris. I co-produced the series with Brenda Cruz-Wolfe and Joseph Campana.

GCPD Play (Gulf Coast Protection District) is a collaborative, multidisciplinary performance and film. Conceived and directed by Fred Schmidt-Arnelas, the play takes place within an art installation at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (where Schmidt-Arnelas is a Core Fellow). The piece explores the difficulties of creating community engagement around the GCPD, also known as the Ike Dike, in Houston, Texas. I dramaturged the performance, helping to shape the rehearsal process, script, structure of the piece, and serving as a researcher for the production. This is an ongoing work.

Over the course of a year I helped three emerging theatre artists develop their plays through Third Culture Theatre’s inaugural Nexus Festival. Here I’m pictured with playwright Thalia Sablon leading a conversation with the audience after a workshop performance of her play Treat Me Softly. The other two plays in the festival were Christian St. Croix’s We Are the Forgotten Beasts and Sarah Sparks’ Halo Halo: A Mix Mix of Mythology.

As part of the Diluvial Houston Initative, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program at Rice University, I developed an arts incubator program that brought together nine artists from New Orleans and Houston to collaborate around the Gulf Coast’s environmental history. Across the week long intensive, the artists gave public presentations, met with community groups, and spoke to students. Artists included Guggenheim Fellow Lisa E. Harris, Bayou City Waterkeeper Ayanna Jolivet McCloud, Pulitzer Prize Nominee Lisa D’Amour, and America Reframed (PBS) award winner Monique Verdin. The program continues through regular conversations with the group of artists.

I served as the dramaturgical advisor and a co-producer for Third Culture Theatre’s production of Jackie Sibbles Drury’s We Are Proud to Present… In addition to helping with the research process and developing dramaturgical materials, I oversaw many elements of producing the show.

I directed and co-produced Third Culture Theatre’s LA Premiere of Kira Rockwell’s The Tragic Ecstasy of Girlhood, which explores the difficulties of life in a youth residential care facility in Texas after a friend’s suicide. The play explored the complicated ideas of grief, gay life among youth, multi-racial friendships, and poverty in the US. Parts of the production toured to youth care facilities in the Greater LA area.