writing
CURRENT Endeavors
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Follow me on Medium for musings, essays, poetry, rants/rambles/raves, etc.
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Along with my writing partner, Elliot Lazar, I'm working on a new musical, TRYHARDS, about a weeklong college-essay writing bootcamp for high schoolers, run by two *young-ish* plucky consultants-for-hire. The students explore the process of trying to distill their life stories into 650 words, while the teachers grapple with how to prepare the young, bright, American and international students for the harsh realities of the real world. We're preparing for our second reading in mid-October!
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Thanks to a generous full scholarship from donations organized by Layne Morgan, I took Hannah Rosner's Televisionary class at Script Anatomy and learned all about the art of screenwriting. I'm writing my first television pilot, based on my true experiences growing up mixed-race and spending summers in Hawai'i with my tutu (grandmother).
Johnny mercer foundation songwriters project
For seven years, I worked on the JMFSP, a weeklong intensive for young, emerging songwriters in all genres held in conjunction with the American Music Theatre Project. As Associate Producer and Recruitment Coordinator, I oversaw the application and adjudication process, helping to evaluate over 200 applicants alongside a team of project alumni and industry professionals.
Playwriting
In 2013, my first original play, Home, was published by Samuel French, Inc. as a winner of the Dramafest festival at Stagedoor Manor, in conjunction with Stephen Sondheim’s Young Playwrights Inc, and I directed the first production in July of that year. I was able to repeat the experience when I won the festival again in 2014 with my second play, In Pursuit of Perfection.
the waa-mu show
At Northwestern, I wrote book, music, and lyrics for The Waa-Mu Show, the country's largest and oldest student-written musical.
In 2019, I co-chaired the musical, which ran in the historic Cahn Auditorium in Evanston, IL.
Music and Lyrics by Gabriella Green, Sarah Ohlson, Alex Rothfield, and Alec Steinhorn
Music and Lyrics by Gabriella Green and Lindsay Whisler
For the Record Trailer (2019)
STUDENT BODY: TRUE NORTHWESTERN DIALOGUE
Student Body is a devised play and class about domestic violence and sexual assault prevention. Performed during Northwestern's orientation program for 2500 freshmen each year, I performed and wrote material for the three years, and facilitated participatory workshops for incoming first-year students.