Art born from love and hope is the most powerful tool for communication we have. I seek out collaborative communities looking to refresh and challenge each other’s ideas. Some of my favorite projects involve innovating, feminizing, and queering theatre to bring more of myself to the stage. I am interested in working in draft and making my thought process visible even in the final product, so that my role as the artist feels inextricable from my projects. 

The evolution of my artistic practice has been the coalescence and divergence of many different hobbies over my life. A choir kid, marching band geek, and musical theatre nerd throughout my teenage years, I was learning how to be a human through art, alongside artists. I was no exception to the angst felt by most of that age, and it turned into silly and sappy poetry in my notes app. It felt natural for my love of singing to collide with my newfound poetic tendencies, and I started making music. I tested out calling myself a writer by qualifying it as songwriter and assuring people I didn’t write real things. Truthfully, that was my first exposure to autobiographical and fictive writing, because I brought experiences and imagination together in my songs. I was doing…character work? When I write, I build a whole world, and I do the same when acting, just through one specific set of eyes.

Determined to transition to a Serious Adult Artist, I concentrated in experimental theatre in college, and for the first time I was generating my own improvisational and scripted work. Songwriting and marching and tap dancing all brushing up against each other in exciting new ways. I started crocheting around this time, obsessed with any method of getting the images in my head to be something tangible. All of my practices are inextricably combined because they all come from the same desire: to make a space where it feels safe to ask ourselves what we are capable of. My job isn’t to make something from nothing, but something from everything.

I approach the future of my art with overwhelming curiosity. I don’t know what past interests will come back to surprise me as inspiration. I am focused primarily on making sure my art develops in a way that pushes me to think bigger and smaller, grander and with more specificity, more ambitious and more personal.

With warmth and gratitude,

Sabrina