DC METRO THEATER ARTS

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March 2022

• Female Comics Stage a Weekend "RIOT!" at Kennedy Center

  • "To preview the three-night comedy event, DCMTA chats with DC natives Brittany Carney and Jenny Questell."

• Tete-a-Tetes Fit For a Queen in "The Audience" From British Players

  • "If you love stories about the British royal family, this play's your cuppa."

• "Rent" is a Cultural Touchdown In Its Farewell Tour at the National Theatre

  • "The show stuns with choreography not only danced but acted — and skilled actors ideally suited to the characters they play."

 

February 2022

• 'Cabaret' at the Classic Theatre of Maryland Sends a Dark Message Brilliantly

  • "The musical underscores the complicity of silence in the face of evil — and the actors playing Fraulein Schneider and Herr Schultz steal the show."

 

December 2021

• What's So Funny About John Oliver?

  • A preview of John Oliver's 2021 performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. that doubles as a 2000-word research paper analyzing British humor and Last Week Tonight's journalistic approach to comedy. 

• Review: The Improvised Shakespeare Company

  • Review of the improv-sketch-poetry-theater troupe who create entirely improvised Shakespeare-esque plays on the spot and their performances at the Kennedy Center.

 

July 2021

• Preview: The Daily Show Writers Stand Up Tour

  • Four Daily Show writers will perform stand-up in Washington D.C. and in doing so offer insight into the varying perspectives that go into creating one of the late-night scene's most successful and informative shows. 

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June 2021

• Preview: Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski

  • Preview of David Straithairn's performance at the Shakespeare Theatre Company as WWII resistance fighter Jan Karski. The play is a masterful solo performance about the man who tried to warn the Oval Office of the Holocaust, only to be disbelieved. 

Weekly Humorist

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October 2021

• Trump Live-Tweets the Cats Movie

  • Article riffing on the news item that throughout his presidency, Trump was reportedly kept from "the brink of rage" by the song "Memory" from Cats. 

  • Selected for the Weekly Humorist's Editor's Picks: Best of 2021 collection.

The Broadway Beat

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April 2022

• Jesus Comes Again, is Immediately Sued by Andrew Lloyd Webber for Copyright Infringement

  • “As the trumpets resounded, so did the high-pitched yelps of a 5’9” Englishman as he hollered upwards at the enrobed figure descending from the sky engulfed by archangels and blinding white light."

 

March 2022

• Local Woman's Personality Just Dripping With "Allowed To See 'Cats' Too Young"

  • “She's simultaneously as interested in methods of literary critical theory as she is in videos of cute furry animals slamming into glass doors, thinking they were windows.”

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January 2022

• Unbathed, Babbling Steven Spielberg Found Hunched Over Corkboard, Mapping Out How Rival Directors Created Omicron To Ruin "West Side Story" Ticket Sales

  • "You just know Tim Burton creates viruses all day long in his parents' basement.

• Sociopath? Theatre Writer Creates Characters and Makes Them Suffer

  • "'I get this sick delight out of it,' admitted a nonchalant Rattleblade, stroking a hairless cat, which is impressively hard to do in a straitjacket."​

The SOciety of Professional Journalists (SPJ) News

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September 2021

• "Building a Pipeline from the Classroom to the Newsroom": What is NBCU Academy and How Can I Participate?

  • "​At the Society of Professional Journalists 2021 Conference, the NBCU Academy hosted a workshop: “Visual Storytelling During Breaking News.” A small group of students, who had applied in order to participate, worked in breakout rooms with NBC journalists to better understand how to juggle an influx of information during a breaking news event, while keeping their reporting both accurate and visually intriguing."

• 4 Top Political Cartoonists. 1 Virtual Room. Here's What They Had To Say About Virtual Satire In the Age of Social Media.

  • "Throughout the virtual chat, the four touched upon the struggles they face as political cartoonists. And agreed one of the biggest thorns in their side, is social media and the “bandwagoning” on damning misinterpretations of their work."

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September 2020

• C-SPAN’s Jesse J. Holland: Commentators are journalists, too

  • "​Jesse J. Holland, Saturday host for the C-SPAN Washington Journal, wants young journalists to understand important distinctions within the field of journalism and to be educated consumers of media. Holland explained to EIJ News that multiple categories of work exist under the umbrella of journalism: including reporters, commentators and columnists."

Inside Higher Education

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June 2021

• Complain: Educatedly

  • ​"When advocating against injustice, one must first put their own adversity, such as discomforts from the pandemic, in perspective, writes student Alexandra Bowman."

The Georgetown Footnote

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May 2021

• T.S. Eliot Told You So

  • "​A year after writing "Cats Can have a (Reluctantly) Positive Review" for The Georgetown Independent, I had the opportunity to read T. S. Eliot’s essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” In this essay, Eliot asserts what makes ‘good’ art, describes what the duty of ‘the artist’ is in creating new work, and declares the vital importance of respecting ‘tradition.’ This essay made me realize that Cats the movie failed because it broke its co-creator’s own rules."

The Georgetown Independent

 

I previously served as the Creative Director and Cover Artist for The Georgetown Independent, the Georgetown University student journal for the arts and culture. I was also a staff writer, reviewing films and television, and commenting on developments in popular culture and film. Cover art I created for "The Indy" can be viewed in my illustration portfolio. 

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March 2020

• Cats Can Have a (Reluctantly) Positive Review, As A Treat

  • Winner of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists' 2021 Columnist Contest's 1st Place Award for Humor Writing (Student)​

 

January 2020

• Commentary: Disney's Decade of Live-Action Remakes

• Indy Suggests: Missing Link

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December 2019

• Review: John Mulaney at the University of Maryland

• Indy Suggests: Cats the Movie

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October 2019

• Review: A Little Late with Lilly Singh

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April 2019

• Commentary: Hasan Minhaj

• Indy Suggests: AwesomeCon

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March 2019

• How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

• Indy Suggests: "Last Week Tonight"

 

November 2018 

• Doctor Who Series 11​​

The Hoya

I served as a News Writer, News Assistant, and Editorial Political Cartoonist for The Hoya, the Georgetown University newspaper of record, from Fall 2018 to Fall 2019. My political cartoons created for The Hoya can be viewed here. 

 

Below is a selection of my news articles. Every article I wrote for The Hoya can be accessed here. 

 

• Former ADL Director Attributes Rise in Anti-Semitism to Trump (Oct. 15, 2018)

• After Antisemitic Shooting, GU Mourns, Calls for Action (Nov. 2, 2018, top headline that week)

• Proposed Legislation to Lower Voting Age in District Tabled (Nov. 16, 2018)

• Georgetown Launches Inmate Re-Entry and Education Program (Nov. 30, 2018, most-visited online article that week) 

• Fringe Sect of Christianity Encroaches on Campus (Jan. 18, 2019, top headline that week, suspected cult attempting to recruit Georgetown students)

• March for Life Draws GU Student Activists (Jan. 25, 2019) 

• Former National Security Advisors Criticize Recent Diplomatic Efforts (Feb. 28, 2019)

• As DC Homelessness Persists, Restaurateur Raises Advocacy (Mar. 20, 2019, Features Article, featured at 2019 GU Bioethics Showcase)

• Right-Wing Media Outlets Undermine Trust in Journalism, CNN Reporter Says  (Apr. 3, 2019, Jim Acosta event)