Festival
Producer
For over ten years, I have created community-based platforms for artistic presentation and exchange both in Philadelphia and abroad. I believe centering the needs of independent artists helps communities thrive.
Most of my recent artistic time has gone into thinking really big about ecosystems of independent artists — how we create systems of support and solidarity that persist despite levels of external resource investment. Cannonball is one expression of that. Wild Horizon and Fit Fest are others.
I am the 2025 recipient of the APAP / CIPA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Creative Producing, and a 2024 Festival Academy graduate.
Festivals
Cannonball Festival
Co-founder; led 2021–2025. Currently Head of Partnerships.
Philadelphia's fastest-growing incubator of daring and original performance. Began as a hub of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and now produces a series of performance festivals year-round throughout the city. In 2021 alone, Cannonball produced 28 full-length works.
Visit →Wild Horizon Circus & Play Festival
Originator and Producer
A free circus and play festival for young people and families at Philadelphia's Cherry Street Pier. Returns May 2–3, 2026.
Visit →Fit Fest
Initiator and co-producer, through Almanac
A biannual community festival in Penn Treaty Park. Rocky Award-winning.
Test Flights
Curator and host (Circadium, 2017–2021)
A circus scratch night developed during my time as founding faculty at Circadium, the nation's first certificate-granting program in contemporary circus performance.