Category: Reflections

I had the opportunity to attend a theater department event with Kaja Dunn. I knew nothing about this event going in. I know that she was being brought in to work on developing anti-racist practices in our theater department, but I had no idea what we would be talking about at this introductory style meeting.…

I wasn’t that excited to see this show. I was tired and honestly a little annoyed that my nightly workload would be pushed back to cater to some musical fantasy. I have always had an odd relationship with seeing musicals, as opposed to being in them. As someone who has spent their whole life performing,…

This assignment was really hard for me. I have never liked reading things I have written, in any context. I am so nitpicky that the process of reviewing my own work is actually kind of painful. Because of this, I often opt to just leave my first draft unread. This is something I have been…

 grew up on a farm. I genuinely wish I was kidding, but it’s true. Where I grew up the only people who weren’t purely identified by stereotypes were straight white christians. I was so entrenched in the world of white western stories that anything outside of that, felt like a mystery to me, something which…

During alumni weekend, I got the opportunity to attend an alumni author event in the Trexler Library. I attended this event for another class and did a deep dive into what this event represented as a performance. Here I will talk more about how I experienced this event from a personal perspective. The idea of…

My first step into the fairgrounds is an overwhelming shock to the senses that no amount of visits to county fairs in Western PA could have prepared me for. The sheer vastness of the fairgrounds coupled with the magnitude of human bodies shifting through it is enough to send my head spinning with possibilities and…