Personal Press/Appearances
I was thrilled to join my coworker Jordan Edwards to interview the legendary theatrical photographer Joan Marcus. She told us that her favorite Broadway theater is the Walter Kerr, and told us about a photo from the 2014 On The Town revival that I coincidentally had next to me on my desk during the interview.
May 8, 2020
Along with my colleague Tricia Hobbs, I interviewed the genius set designer David Korins, best known for his work on Hamilton, Beetlejuice, and Dear Evan Hansen. Tricia is a scenic designer, director, and production manager and I learned so much from listening to her ask David questions that I barely understood, and I loved getting to ask him industry-oriented questions about his career.
May 18, 2020
I adore stage managers but have never been one myself. I learned so much from talking to this panel of professionals: Julia Jones, Kat Purvis, Scott Rollison, Cody Renard Richard, and Matt Stern. Scott told us about the cast and crew of Hangmen finding out that Broadway was shutting down, and I was honored to hear this tiny behind-the-scenes tidbit about a show that never got to open.
May 4, 2020
I conducted a series of interviews with the cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for The Leaky Cauldron.
(Right: with fellow TLC correspondent Kylie Madden)
September 6, 2019
Michael Gioia included me in this article for Playbill about careers on Broadway that aren’t eligible for Tony Awards. The piece appeared in print in the Playbill for the 2016 Tony Awards, which I attended. After the ceremony, a friend and I scoured the whole theater for abandoned Playbills so my parents could have copies.
June 9, 2016
I contributed to this piece in The Guardian about how millennials’ lives were shaped by Harry Potter. My section is called “ I wouldn’t have my job without Harry Potter.”
(Right: packing up convention materials including a “Leaky Cauldron”)
March 17, 2016
I produced this concert to fulfill my thesis requirement in the Fordham University at Lincoln Center Honors Program.
March 30, 2015
My boss interviewed me for her podcast and I tried not to be too awkward as we talked to each other in our teeny tiny podcast studio as if for an audience.
February 24, 2020
I watched Supernatural for the first time ever, and then talked to two coworkers who are Supernatural experts.
December 30, 2019
I grew up listening to PotterCast, so getting to come on the show to talk to my friends Sam and Kylie about magical transportation was one of the most exciting things I’ve gotten to do. If I could go back and tell myself in 2008 that I’d be doing this someday, I wouldn’t have believed it.
May 15, 2019
Press About My Work
By Ashley Steves for The Mary Sue. January 24, 2019
At the convention’s “Seeing Through the Eyes of Black Female Playwrights” panel, that balance between seeing your work produced and staying true to yourself is a regular conversation…. Stepping into the microcosm of BroadwayCon, which “Eve’s Song” playwright Patricia Ione Lloyd described as a creative “bubble bath,” it’s easy to forget all that, especially when you can hop from diverse panel to diverse panel, instead of the regular “man-els” of so many other conventions and industry conversations.
By Nancy Coleman for The New York Times. January 27, 2020
I loved this write up of BroadwayCon 2020. I read it while running the last of my errands on the day after the convention and it was such a lovely button on the whole experience.
By Erik Piepenburg and Michael Paulson for The New York Times. January 24, 2016
This article has one of my favorite headlines ever. During the first BroadwayCon, a blizzard hit New York City and closed Broadway and public transportation. BroadwayCon continued on and was one of the wildest weekends of my life.
(Left: interviewing Jennifer Ashley Tepper on the BroadwayCon MainStage, an example of programming made up that morning to replace what the blizzard canceled)
By Kaitlyn Tiffany for The Verge. July 7, 2017
Each day of the convention involved so many panels, discussions, group activities, performances, and meet and greets that any attendee could easily milk 12 full hours of experience out of their ticket price. Even as an “impartial” observer of the weekend, I often found myself worrying that I was going to be physically incapable of attending every event that sounded interesting, and though I came to Nashville expecting to ask how organizers decided which audience to prioritize — book or show — it quickly became obvious that the question was stupid…. Every type of fan was accounted for, every hour.
By Danielle Henderson for BuzzFeed News. July 28, 2015
I’m included in this article that ran in honor of GeekyCon 2015, my very first convention.