writing projects​

A rough draft of Act I of a kabuki play I wrote to synthesize the knowledge I gained from a semester on Japanese theatre. It follows two of Ono no Komachi's lovers as they wait for her to arrive; as in the original tale, she never comes. While waiting they encounter the tragic couple of Ghost Stories at Yotsuya. Combining kabuki characters and forms with elements of Beckett's narrative, this play examines love, loss, and identity.

Written while I was an undergraduate at Lehigh University, this paper fulfilled my responsibilities as a Martindale Student Associate. It examines challenges to the Peruvian tourism industry, describes the benefits that meetings tourism can offer Peru, and provides a comprehensive international meetings tourism strategy to ease the country's dependence on commodity exports. This paper was cited by the government of Peru as it sought $100 million in funding from the World Bank to assist the recovery of its tourism industry after the COVID-19 pandemic. 

An example of my academic writing in the field of theatre and performance studies. I approach the ontology debate by interrogating Philip Auslander’s and Diana Taylor’s conceptualizations of disappearance in relation to performance before extrapolating their conceptions of disappearance to Peggy Phelan’s assertions that performance evades recording and reproduction, forming its identity through its ephemerality.