Writer.

Sunshine and Broken Glass, Or; lather, rinse, Repeat is a movement-based peek into the feelings of love, beauty, self- discovery, failure, fear, disaster, exhaustion, grief, desperation, love, humor, light, and darkness. It is a work that I was in process with for three years 2015-2018. It’s a show that came to me in the form of visions, dreams, voices, and poems during various periods of my life throughout those three years. My vision for this piece of art was Bronx Gothic meets Hamlet meets Metamorphoses meets Yerma meets Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. I chose to treat this piece as my senior thesis project, and spent three months devising it. Finally after three months of failure, and three years of fear, I work-shopped it for three performances in April of 2018.

This semi-autobiographical piece has one character named “I”  who behaves as society would expect she would. She laughs when she wants to cry, she pretends to be happy when she is not, and she is draped in layers of clothing in an attempt to hide herself, as society often expects plus sized women to do. But, as the show progresses, the audience gets to see her journey from fake happiness, through the five stages of grief in order to reach a place of self discovery. We physically see her shed layers and choose to go towards  the light in life, like a sunflower who turns toward the sun as she blooms. We see character “I” rise from the ground up, and try to find out what it truly means to be happy.