Event Management, Design & Production

My event management, design, and production practice brings creative direction into physical space. I build the systems that allow an idea to become an experience—moving between concept development, production design, logistics, spatial thinking, sourcing, coordination, and on-site execution.

My foundation in stage management taught me to understand production as both creative and infrastructural work: how people, materials, schedules, environments, and moving parts have to relate for something to actually happen. As a Kennedy Center Fellow, I contributed to major productions including the Mark Twain Prize and Kennedy Center Honors. I later produced SunFest in Silver Spring, Maryland in 2011 and 2012, overseeing the festival across design, coordination, logistics, and execution.

That same methodology moves across scale. I have designed and produced personal celebrations, community gatherings, and culturally rooted events, sourcing and building environments through furniture, props, décor, visual language, and the materials already available to me. The budget, venue, and number of people may change; the underlying practice does not.

Melanin Pool Poppin’ in Nashville began with six Black people gathering at a pool and grew into an event drawing more than 200 people. What emerged was more than an event: it was an intervention into leisure space, creating room for Black presence, pleasure, gathering, and play—for swimmers and non-swimmers alike.

I approach production as world-building with infrastructure. I understand how to enter into relationship with a space, a set of materials, a group of people, and a logistical system, then develop the structures necessary to move an idea from imagination into lived experience.

I also work with people and organizations to understand the infrastructure required to make an event genuinely accessible. Accessibility cannot begin and end with what an audience encounters front of house. It has to be considered throughout the production ecosystem—from planning, communication, scheduling, staffing, and backstage environments to physical access, sensory needs, performer support, and the conditions under which people are expected to work.