“Severo’s work demands our respect for one simple reason: Integrity.” - Bob Trussell, KC Studio

Ava Armstrong (Vanessa’s daughter!) in SUENO DE AGUA at Kansas City Repertory Theater’s *Ghost Light,* 2022

I began to sense I was avoiding something about who I was and where I came from. I decided to pause, turn around, and see what I was running from. At that point, I started to write.

World premiere at KC Rep in 2019:
Frida..A Self Portrait

World premiere at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park February 2024:
Dracula (in collaboration with Joanie Schultz)

“A curious, probing and occasionally menacing vision of the original story.”

— David Lyman on DRACULA

World premiere at KC Rep in 2022:
Ghost Light: Sueno de Agua

World premiere Spinning Tree Theatre April, May 2024:
Rubik

Others in process:

Advice from a Spider

Parallel

A Christmas Carol (co-adapted with Joanie Schultz)