About

Whether a play, musical, or web series; or whether an akashic reading, meditation or writing project I am coaching, my goal is to help others touch the soul underneath these very human suits that we wear. 

I seek to bring art and meditation practice together, inspiring the room (both in creation and in performance) to feel and connect more deeply, rather than distract.

My roots as a meditation practitioner and teacher are in Tibetan Buddhism and non-dual meditation, with extensive experience in The Work. After many years of training and completing 18 months of personal retreat, I went on to teach over 500 meditation classes in some of the biggest companies in the world (Facebook, Barklays, PWC) and lead retreats and classes in meditation studios and retreat centers throughout NYC and the northeast.

My theater work has been developed or produced at The Lark, Theaterlab, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Dixon Place, Stratford New Works Lab, the Sewanee Conference, Piano Fight, Figment Arts Festival on Governors Island, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Cabaret, Moving Parts Paris, BRIC Arts Media, Prospect Theater, Musical Theater Factory, Norfolk Music Festival and the Théâtre de Ménilmontant, Paris. My translations from French include The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco. My essays on theater have been published in American Theater Magazine, Howlround, and The San Francisco Chronicle. I was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Conference and the recipient of grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Theater Bay Area, JM Kaplan Fund and the Dramatist Guild. My work has been a finalist for the Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Playwright’s Realm Fellowship, Jerome NYC Fellowship, Play Penn, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the New Harmony Project. I have held teaching artist positions at Wesleyan and Yale, among others. MA in opera dramaturgy from the Sorbonne in Paris and MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama where I received the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Scholarship. I am currently based in Rhode Island.

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JT