Just got back from 2 months in Europe! I met up with some lovely people through this app and hope to continue now that I'm back home in Rochester.

I work as a real-time captionist for Deaf and hard of hearing university students. As side gigs, I'm a theatre critic and playwriting teacher.

PLEASE RESPECT that I use this app for platonic connection with travelers and cultural exchanges, not hook ups or dating.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Through encouragement from a lovely group of people I rented a car with in Croatia who met via CS!

Plus this feels like the app version of one of my favorite Sondheim songs, "Another Hundred People."

Interests

Though only fluent in English I love language: spoken, scrawled, signed, sung, stuck to the sides of buildings, etc.

• festivals
• dancing
• chocolate
• movies
• music
• hiking
• tea
• laughing
• theatre
• biking
• activism
• museums
• libraries
• bookshops
• queer community
• walking around the city
• dramaturgy

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, Babel by RF Kuang, Sidewalks by Valeria Luiselli, The Castle Cross The Magnet Carter by Kia Corthron, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Secret Scribbled Notebooks by Joanne Horniman, Body Work by Melissa Febos, Liar Dreamer Thief by Maria Dong, Fun Home by Alison Bechdel... these are just off the top of my head. I love YA and middle grade, memoirs, nonfiction, media and cultural criticism, queer rom-coms, graphic novels.

My new year's resolution is to watch more movies :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've written over 60 short plays and seen them performed for a live audience in rural Ohio

Teach, Learn, Share

Eager to share stories, laughter, music, adventure, spontaneous dancing, food, art, alternative spaces, silence.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My attention, curiosity, and gratitude.

I'm also a writing tutor and teacher and am happy to help you finish that e-mail/application essay/love letter you've been procrastinating.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, England, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, United States