I wrote this ten-minute play during the spring of my senior year of college. Our assignment was to find a headline to serve as a starting point for our play. The headline I found, a story on NPR by Nellie Gilles, was “She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years. But her life was a mystery.”

The spot aired before and during the holiday season in 2025 in the southeast United States. The GlassFire productions team brought together a truly fun group for this shoot back in September 2025. I had been on a few commercial shoots before (Lexington Medical Center shot some holiday spots at my childhood home in Columbia, SC and used me as background once or twice), but never directly in front of the camera as a main part of the action like I was on this day. My role was de

During my tenure at New Stage Theatre in Jackson, MS, I had the unique opportunity to propose and direct a play of my choosing for New...