About

underdog dreamer is my poet name. I am not on instagram. If you've seen my work in Pittsburgh (I was the third runner up in the Steel City Grand Slam 2025), and you wish to follow me, you can find me here. 

I am first and foremost a theatre artist. I practice what is in my blood, and only recently have I started to take off a mask that has fed the American theatre. This mask, it is nice - its efforts are to be good, and I have no use of it now. 

You may come and see me step into Nina in Quantum's current production of Seagull. Or maybe you have already seen me, and wish to know more of my work, welcome. My work online is free. My work, live, is always more interesting. 

This newsletter is an update of my whereabouts, but it is also host to my thoughts on the Anthropocene we currently live in. I speak on what I am local to and what I see.

I reside in Fox Chapel with my parents and my cat. Fox Chapel is a suburb of Pittsburgh, 20 minutes out of the city. Local to it is Waterworks - a shopping mall complex host to a Giant Eagle and various other franchises, where the 75 stops and reroutes from. Fox Chapel has no local buses. It is a sundown town.

a space to discuss...

Just to clarify - if this blog is successful, it won't exist in a vacuum. I'm interested in hearing from people who read my posts. I think we all have something important to say - so I've made it possible for members to comment. A free subscription gets you the newsletter directly to your email, and also access to the comment section below each post. I want to generate a following as an artist, of course, but I want to do it differently. I refuse to think that artists need meta platforms in order to influence and be successful in the industry. I understand the complications. I understand the things these platforms afford us, but if we don't try something different, then we'll always be dependent on structures that want and function off of our attention. The internet is not a free space.

I am trying to make a small speck of it hospitable to critical and generative thinking.

lol. niche for sure.