The Woman in White

In April 2019 I completed my Masters Thesis, The Woman in White, written, directed, designed, and performed by myself, which received its world premier at the Boston Conservatory. I was able to write something I am incredible proud of that I built from the ground up including the hundreds of antique paper letters strung around the set (yes, it's true, I never want to see red yarn again). This woman I had the privilege of creating let me shake apart all the things I was frustrated with and rearrange the narrative in a way that made my heart and my mind so happy. Anyone who knows me knows that I am deeply in love with both Shakespeare and Magical Realism from Lorca to Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Jane The Virgin. In undergrad I actually double majored in Theatre and Spanish with an emphasis on Spanish Literature. I wrote a fifty page thesis paper entirely in Spanish about universal archetypal links between One Hundred Years of Solitude and Shakespearean, so being able to bring a part of myself that is so central to who I am, what I love, and what fascinates me was an absolute joy. An exhausting, challenging, endless joy. It was very clear to me when I began working on this project that at its core Musical Theatre is Magical Realism. Hello! People break into song and dance! Finding a place where Musical Theatre, Shakespeare, and Magical Realism could all live together was exactly what I had dreamed of.