My name is Skye.

Born to a book loving feminist and outdoorsy pediatrician in the suburbs of the San Fransisco Bay Area, I grew up singing to the ocean, performing in plays, and pouring my heart out through angsty poetry about beauty standards.

Sixteen and already disillusioned with the social politics of casting at my high school, I produced my first ever event, a variety show featuring students across social groups that raised money for underfunded non-profits. As that teenager, I discovered and fell in love with experimental theater and storytelling as a tool for social impact.

I moved to New York City in 2008 to continue that study at NYU. I also earned a dual degree in Psychology, thinking I might want to be a therapist. I like people, and I love creating space for healing, but ultimately it was theater that opened the door to my desired exploration of messy, emotional truths. 

I spent the last decade and change in New York helping make a lot of different shit happen. I began writing, directing, and producing theatrical work focused on telling stories about women and gender non-conforming people which became my company Exploding Knot. I performed poetry at salons and sang my original music in bars. I spent time learning from people I admired. I directed new-work through non traditional processes for a number of mission aligned playwrights and toured work across the world as an associate director. I organized artistic and political educational events and managed venues during everything from concerts, to conferences, to weddings. I led teams at arts organizations where I creatively and administratively supported other artists, created programming, and revamped policies to cultivate equity and inclusivity. 

All the while, there was a growing sensation in my gut that was restraining my voice as a self-proclaimed feminist artist. I was after a sense of lineage, and some understanding of  “feminism” or what “womanhood” meant to me. In 2018 I enrolled in a Master’s Program for Women’s and Gender History at Sarah Lawrence. I emerged in 2020 with more questions than I began with, and an unrelenting drive to help reimagine our world by asking how the one we have was constructed in the first place. After graduating I served as a project manager for LGTBQ+ focused DEI firm Collaborate Consulting and as the communications manager for Vonetta Young Advisors, and equity focused financial consulting firm. I am currently the Co-Director of JACK in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn furthering a mission to connect with adventurous artists and our neighbors to bring about a more just and vibrant society.

In my spare time, I enjoy spending time by water and in trees, running, practicing martial arts and connecting with friends.