I pretty much just do one thing. It’s this:
Tell important stories with people I love.
Mostly that means writing. Frequently it means composing. Sometimes it means building props on the floor of the living room or recording podcasts at the kitchen table. And sometimes-sometimes it means pretending I can act.
Life is a silly ride full of sleepless nights and hot glue guns, ain’t it?
Here’s the number one thing you should know right now (and probably the reason you’re here…)
Returning to Xavier University Theater for a third production is …
Slut Shaming
a time travel rape adventure
(3F) | 50 minutes
Feb. 19-22, 2026
Gallagher Student Center Onstage Theatre
15 year-old time traveler Lauren Lucas careens back and forth across all of the events of her life, but always has to pass over the night of her rape. Detached from time with a fragmented memory, Lauren Lucas is forced to navigate a high school set against her, a hostile local community and an onslaught of online harassment.
Slut Shaming explores how teenage survivors of sexual assault are further victimized by small town communities. It exposes a culture where anonymity hurts, where aggressors number in the thousands, where advocates are in short supply.
It asks the question: What role does a community play in a single violent act? When are we the aggressor and how do we affect the healing process?
The answer isn’t simple. And it changes with time.
Slut Shaming was originally developed for the 2013 Women's Center Stage Festival at The Culture Project in NYC. It was the 2014 Artists’ Pick of the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival and was featured in a 2018 article in Teaching Theatre Magazine. Read the Article here!
Now back to the intro!
I make most of my stuff with Director Bridget Leak. She’s my Best Friend / Copilot / Wife.
She has a website.
And here’s a picture of us looking cute as heck.
I should be looking at the camera, but I’m terrible at being a Millennial and selfies are hard.
We make mischief and theater in Cincinnati. We have two dogs. Their names are Pocket and Lint. Bridget named them (she’s amazing).
Here, have a dog photo.
Yes, they match intentionally. No, they’re not related.
We also have a son, and yo! - it’s nuts how awesome this kid is.
We make most things as our theater company, Queen City Flash.
It too has a website (most things have a website).
If the above wasn’t exhaustive enough, here’s some more about me.
I was raised on the Alabama Gulf Coast. For a time I ran a non-profit theater in New York City. I now call Ohio home. I like telling weird stories about upbeat underdogs and the beautifully-magical, often dangerous world we are all cosmically-linked to.
Still want more?
Okay.
Here’s 10 photos for your eyeballs about the theater (and podcasts) I like to make.
And here’s 10 songs for your earballs about the music I like to write.
Here are some kind words people have said about me.
And here’s a photo of me.
I don’t like photos of myself, generally, but Mikki Shaffner took this one and she’s amazing and I like it.
Lint’s scared of loud noises, that’s where that look comes from.