Writer/Director
Photo by Whitney Browne
…a Tulsa-born, New York-raised, Afro-surrealist artist…
“Afro-Surreal presupposes that beyond this visible world, there is an invisible world striving to manifest, and it is our job to uncover it.”
- D. Scot Miller, Afrosurreal Manifesto
Recent Works
dot dot dot, a new musical THEATERWORKSUSA
Based on the Creatrilogy trio of award-winning picture books by New York Times bestselling author Peter H. Reynolds (The Dot, Ish and Sky Color).
Adapted for the stage by Keelay Gipson and Sam Salmond, the musical, like the series, celebrates the power of originality, self-expression, and opening our eyes to look beyond the expected. When Marisol, a young artist and curator of the Muse de Marisol, decides that her gallery requires more than her own art, her search for emerging talent leads her to Vashti, whose dots inspire Ramon to become an artist in his own right.
The musical follows Marisol's journey to help her new friends, and her entire community, break free from self-criticism and learn to let their imaginations soar.
Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Jesca Prudencio
Currently on tour!Click here for more info!
pumpernickel sands school of performing arts, pace university
a dark comedic meditation on the nature of making art.
especially now.
where listening and learning has overtaken critical discourse.
and buzzwords dominate the little discourse that transpires.
pumpernickel hopes to ask, rather than answer, questions like…who should be able to make certain art and what role does an audience and their subjectivity play in the experience of art.
demons. the bushwick starr/oye group, the connelly theater
Original Artwork by Felix Jackson, Jr.
“When Danily, a red-furred, purple-lipped beast, appears onstage, his giant eyelids fluttering and huge maw flapping, he is irresistibly adorable, like something from Jim Henson’s dreams.
And did I mention he’s a demon?”
MAYA PHILLIPS, THE NEW YORK TIMES
“Simultaneously relatable and fantastical, demons. is a beautiful demonstration of theater’s ability to tell family stories that escape the confines of the living room — even if it appears as though we’ve never left at all.”
ZACHARY STEWART, THEATERMANIA
Other Selected Work
The Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival, 2022
kinfolk
New York Theatre Workshop Mondays @ 3 Reading Series
The Red and the Black
Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Conference Finalist, 2021 / P73 Yale Residency
imagine sisyphus happy
Public Artist in Residence
City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs / Administration of Children’s Services