Plays, Poems, and Essays
Tess holds a BA in English with a Creative Writing Concentration from Wesleyan. Before college, she wrote mostly poems, attending the New England Young Writer's Conference at the Breadloaf School of English at Middlebury College. At Wesleyan, she focused on playwriting, studying with Caroline V. McGraw, Jake Jeppson, Leigh Fondakowski (Tectonic Theater Project), and Pulitzer Prize Winner Quiara Hudes. She is interested in writing plays that tread between casual conversational prose and poetry, and usually with strong leading female roles.
Tess' one-act Food Play was a regional semi-finalist for the John Cauble National Short Play Award in 2013, with a staged reading at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (Region 1) in Hyannis, MA. She was also the Guest Artist at the Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA in April 2013 for her full-length play Dirty Sheets (working title) about five modern-day dopplegangers of Shakespearean heroines. She has workshopped her plays at Wesleyan and informally at the Powerhouse Theater Apprentice Program.
She also has experience with academic writing; her full-year undergraduate thesis, consisting of both a written component and two choreographic iterations, received High Honors from the Wesleyan Dance Department. The written component, "Choreographing Family: Performativity and Spectatorship in Interracial Adoption" can be read through the Olin Library at Wesleyan.
For samples of any of Tess' work, e-mail [email protected].
Tess' one-act Food Play was a regional semi-finalist for the John Cauble National Short Play Award in 2013, with a staged reading at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (Region 1) in Hyannis, MA. She was also the Guest Artist at the Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA in April 2013 for her full-length play Dirty Sheets (working title) about five modern-day dopplegangers of Shakespearean heroines. She has workshopped her plays at Wesleyan and informally at the Powerhouse Theater Apprentice Program.
She also has experience with academic writing; her full-year undergraduate thesis, consisting of both a written component and two choreographic iterations, received High Honors from the Wesleyan Dance Department. The written component, "Choreographing Family: Performativity and Spectatorship in Interracial Adoption" can be read through the Olin Library at Wesleyan.
For samples of any of Tess' work, e-mail [email protected].
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