About Me
I was born on October 27, 1989 in Washington DC and grew up in Virginia. As a child I was always into school. My favorite subject was English. Sickly with asthma, I loved classical movies when I was home. Mostly musicals. I think it was in sixth grade that I really got into drama and it was the ninth grade when I realized my love for playwriting. When I started out I sucked. I think when I hit college and became
existential and absurd and liberal (that's what college does to us), I discovered my love for theater of the absurd, surrealism, black comedy,
and tragicomedy. I found that was the kind of writing I wanted to do. Just last year, I discovered I could compose music
and write lyrics. With practice, i just became better at it. So, I have always had two loves- musical theater (which I have always loved, I am that guy who knows every musical- I am the "Rain Man of Musicals"...so I challenge you to stump me) and the dark, edgy modernist stuff. I'm also
into literature, mostly dystopian, erotic, and nonsensical works. I got my Bachelor's at George Mason University in Virginia in 2013 in theater with a concentration in playwriting and dramaturgical studies. My mentor was the lovely Heather McDonald. I plan to pursue my master's later when I move to New York and hope to become a playwriting professor.
existential and absurd and liberal (that's what college does to us), I discovered my love for theater of the absurd, surrealism, black comedy,
and tragicomedy. I found that was the kind of writing I wanted to do. Just last year, I discovered I could compose music
and write lyrics. With practice, i just became better at it. So, I have always had two loves- musical theater (which I have always loved, I am that guy who knows every musical- I am the "Rain Man of Musicals"...so I challenge you to stump me) and the dark, edgy modernist stuff. I'm also
into literature, mostly dystopian, erotic, and nonsensical works. I got my Bachelor's at George Mason University in Virginia in 2013 in theater with a concentration in playwriting and dramaturgical studies. My mentor was the lovely Heather McDonald. I plan to pursue my master's later when I move to New York and hope to become a playwriting professor.
133 Influences
Playwriting Influences: Bertolt Brecht, Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Eugene O’Neil, Tennessee Williams, Tom Stoppard, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Nicky Silver, Neil LaBute, Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, David Mamet, August Strindberg, Alfred Jarry, Christopher Durang, Jean-Paul Sartre, Sam Shepherd, Yasmina Reza, William Shakespeare, David Ives, Tracy Letts, David Lindsay-Abaire, John Osborne, Eric Coble, Arthur Adamov, and Plautus (27)
Filmmakers Influences: Lars von Trier, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Mel Brooks, Jean Cocteau, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola, Vincent Minnelli, Quentin Depieux, Christopher Nolan, Federico Felini, and David Firth (13)
Writing Influences: T.S. Elliot, Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Albert Camus, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Sallinger, William Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Shel Silverstein, Shirley Jackson, Vladimir Nabakov, Ovid, Tristan Tzara, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Ring Lardner, Sadegh Hediyat, E.E. Cummings, and Marquis de Sade (25)
Artist Influences: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol, James Thurber, and Vincent Van Gogh (6)
Composer/Lyricist Influences: Phillip Glass, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Richard Wagner, Alan Jay Lerner, Fredrick Loewe, Leonard Bernstein, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Sigmund Romberg, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart,
Jerry Bock, Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Tim Rice, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jason Robert Brown, E.Y. Harburg, Jonathan Larson, Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin, Maury Yeston, Fats Waller, Benjamin Britten, and Stephen Schwartz (33)
Comic Influences: George Carlin, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Marx Brothers, Larry David, Bill Hicks, Jim Norton, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Gilbert Gottfried, Richard Pryor, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Seth MacFarlane, Tina Fey, W.C. Fields, Mel Brooks, Roseanne Barr, Daniel Tosh, and Lenny Bruce (22)
Philosophers Include: Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Northtrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Aristotle, Timothy Leary, and Frederic Nietzsche (8)
Filmmakers Influences: Lars von Trier, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, David Lynch, Mel Brooks, Jean Cocteau, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola, Vincent Minnelli, Quentin Depieux, Christopher Nolan, Federico Felini, and David Firth (13)
Writing Influences: T.S. Elliot, Franz Kafka, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Albert Camus, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Sallinger, William Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Shel Silverstein, Shirley Jackson, Vladimir Nabakov, Ovid, Tristan Tzara, Thomas Mann, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Ring Lardner, Sadegh Hediyat, E.E. Cummings, and Marquis de Sade (25)
Artist Influences: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol, James Thurber, and Vincent Van Gogh (6)
Composer/Lyricist Influences: Phillip Glass, Kurt Weill, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Richard Wagner, Alan Jay Lerner, Fredrick Loewe, Leonard Bernstein, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Sigmund Romberg, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart,
Jerry Bock, Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim, Oscar Hammerstein, Jerome Kern, Tim Rice, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jason Robert Brown, E.Y. Harburg, Jonathan Larson, Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin, Maury Yeston, Fats Waller, Benjamin Britten, and Stephen Schwartz (33)
Comic Influences: George Carlin, Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Marx Brothers, Larry David, Bill Hicks, Jim Norton, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Gilbert Gottfried, Richard Pryor, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Seth MacFarlane, Tina Fey, W.C. Fields, Mel Brooks, Roseanne Barr, Daniel Tosh, and Lenny Bruce (22)
Philosophers Include: Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Northtrop Frye, Jacques Derrida, Aristotle, Timothy Leary, and Frederic Nietzsche (8)