DC THEATER ARTS

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July 2022

• "Something Rotten!" Is a Joyous Farce at the Little Theatre of Alexandria

  • ​Much like the Black Plague, the joy the Little Theatre of Alexandria’s production of Something Rotten! emanates is unexpectedly infectious. The show is a Renaissance feast for the eyes, ears, and whatever organ processes jokes, thanks to set, lighting, and costume design that match the musical’s tone — a farce that both riffs on and celebrates traditional tropes — in addition to irresistibly bright performances in both leading and ensemble roles.

• The Blue Man Group Leans Into Weirdness and Wonder On Tour at the Kennedy Center

  • "One of Blue Man Group’s taglines is “Hard to Describe. Easy to Love.” Kudos to their publicist; this is spot-on. And the fact the show’s meaning isn’t handed to you on a silver platter is why it confuses some, and confuses AND delights others — and has done so since 1987."​

• The Hylton Is Alive With "The Sound of Music" and Top-Tier Acting

  • ​"Maria, played by Meghan Bentley as a radically sincere, impossibly sweet character with a Broadway-quality voice that perfectly matches The Sound of Music’s core ethos about valuing and protecting innocence from forces that would seek to destroy it."

• The Second City' at the Kennedy Center Has a Message For Americans: Calm down

  • " The show offers a blend of political humor and just plain silliness while all the time presenting a refreshing message to treasure during our apocalypse: All we can do is our best."

  • (Quoted by the Kennedy Center in promotional materials) 

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May 2022

• "[title of show]" Shines With Glittering Talent and Originality at Dominion Stage

  • "The core triumph of [title of show]? Showing me how many creative writing deadlines I have needlessly stressed out about because I didn’t think to do my creative writing assignment about needlessly stressing out about the creative writing assignment. Can I write this review about what it was like to write this review? My editor said no. Worth a shot."

• The gala night Jon Stewart Got the Mark Twain Prize at the Kennedy Center

  • "Especially as a young person hoping to work in political satire, the larger-than-life experience of attending the Mark Twain Prize ceremony was a formative one that I will not soon forget. While the tickets for this gala are not inexpensive for casual comedy lovers, those who are able to acquire them should absolutely seek to attend coming years’ Mark Twain Prize galas, if simply for the chance to experience briefly being inside the world of those figures we know and love from stage and screen." (Represented DCTA at the annual Mark Twain Prize red carpet gala at the Kennedy Center)​

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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."​

 

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

 

July 2022

• REPORT: Local Woman Not Theatre Kid, Just Extrovert With Limited Taste in Music

  • "​At long last, local student Anna Mitchell has been deemed by experts to not in fact be a “theatre kid,” as many suspected, but simply an extrovert with limited social skills who enjoys repetition-heavy pop ballads involving sad women."

• QUIZ: Is Your Relationship Strong Enough To See "Company" On a Date?​

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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)