I was raised in New York City’s Judson Church: a community of artmakers and rabble-rousers. I learned early on to trust the unexpected, the absurd, the simple, the unadorned, and the queer. I grew up in theater and in choirs, trusting the vehicle of collective creation more than the flash of solitary genius. I became a singer over time, growing through theater and classical training into experimental work and folk music, and finding common ground in the creative communities in Chicago where I live with my partner and our son. I’ve taught music and art in public schools and hospitals, community playgrounds and parks.

My interdisciplinary work combines improvisation, conversation, folk tunes, narrative, poetic inquiry, political urgency and embodied expression. I am the co-creator with Ronnie Kuller of Her Only Light, a staged re-imagining of the songs of Connie Converse. I write songs and perform with 80 Foots (End Times Vocal Trio) and The Possible (vocal improvisation and songleading) . I performed in Facility Theater’s Little Match Girl Passion and created sound and music for their production of Phoebe in Winter. My favorite collaborators have included Erica Mott, Naima Lowe, Opera-Matic, Theater Oobleck, the Neo-Futurists, John Szymanski, Beyond This Point, and ~Nois saxophone quartet. My solo shows As We Go and You’re His Child has been seen at the Pivot Arts Festival and Rhino Fest here in Chicago.