Aeja L. Barrows as Sully, Rogue Theater Festival staged reading, August 2025.

Photographer: Adrian Ward

“so f*cking funny” - audience member

“this show has so much heart and toe-tapping music!” - aaron clark burstein

three witches and two demons walk into a spelling bee…

Aeja L. Barrows as Sully, Kalyn Schmidt as Rowena, Tori Oatway as Laz, Eden Espinosa as Mephistopheles, Esme Mitchell as Beelzebub. Rogue Theater Festival staged reading, August 2025.

Photographer: Adrian Ward

Being out as a witch in Redacted, Texas isn’t safe, so teen witches Sully, Laz and Rowena hide their identities in school. The only place they can be themselves is Ms. Sophie’s Classroom. But when their safe space is threatened by Ms. Hardy, the new, Bible-grasping Principal, the witches formulate a fake “Spelling Club” to keep her off their backs. While they’re forced to enroll in a spelling bee, Spelling Club becomes a hub for these witches to escape the demons they face on a daily, not including the two actual demons from hell they accidentally summon.

See the magic…

Check out three songs from “Spelling Club” now on Youtube: “Ms. Hardy”, “Teenagers Don’t Scare Me”, and the show’s title song: “Spelling Club”

RATATOUILLE

A musical adaptation of Pixar’s 2007 “Ratatouille” was something of a passion project of mine in undergrad, (no relation to the “rat of all my dreams” version from tiktok) I didn’t end up going farther than writing more than 3 songs, but those 3 songs are some of my favorite I’ve ever written.