The list below is comprised of people who contributed positively (directly and indirectly) to both GTM1 and my Master’s Thesis essay, as well as places where music and text were written for both endeavors between August 2023 and November 2025.

Evan Christopher Arnold
Robert Ashley (for giving me permission to improvise text and the permission to speak; Improvement is one of the best things I’ve ever heard in my life)
Samuel Beckett
Kate Berlant (for Kate)
Olivia Bolden
Elyse Brown and Alexa Flinker (for singing on the recording that got me into UNT)
Prof. Lenora Champagne (for giving me permission to write text in the first place)
Teng Cao
Lecresia Campbell and David E. Talbert (for “Lonely Old Woman,” from Mr. Right Now)
Beige Cowell (for being just the friend I needed these last two and a half years, pt. 1)
Alissa Cox
George Crumb (for all the notation)
Michael Cunningham (for The Hours)
Mark Z. Danielewski (for House of Leaves, especially the footnotes)
Linda Dumas
Briohny Dycus
Tanner Easterling
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (for Einstein on the Beach)
Morton Feldman (for assuring me that long is okay)
Taylor Fenner and Christopher Rodriguez (for May 2, 2024)
Mark Friello
Cecelia Gray (for “The Bird”)
Brooklyn Hall
Margaret Hall (for housing me in the summer of 2024, even when I had COVID)
Monique Hannah (for discovering me in 2004)
Prof. Marjorie Hayes (for everything, almost too much)
Bob Hess
Dr. Sungji Hong (for making me so mad in your class that I wrote the Act II, Scene 1 “every night” music in less than an hour [you were right, though])
Trevar Howell
Adam Keeler and Joel Brassard (for helping me pack before moving to Texas)
Dr. Joseph Klein
Dr. Panayiotis Kokoras
Hanna Le
Chloe Noelle Lemley
René Magritte (for La Trahison des images)
Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill (for getting me back to Theatre and putting me on track to get my Equity card)
Prof. Donna Marquet
Austin Martinez, Sveva Inofuentes, Willy Chen, and UNT Recording Services
Dave Matthews (for being the first to give me the tools step on a stage)
Samuel Middleton
Morgan Kathryn Minear
Cheryl Mlodzianowski
Ronald Mlodzianowski (for inspiring the piece I wrote in Spring 2024 named after you, bits of which found their way into GTM1)PJ Mooney (for being just the friend I needed these last two and a half years, pt. 2)
Dr. Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (for looking like my dad; I never could bring myself to tell you)
The New York Society Library (for hiring me in 2012 and making me shelve books most of the day; otherwise, I wouldn’t have discovered Robert Lax or Peter Brook)
Dr. Nancy Newman (a mentor for the ages)
Rory O'Neal
Anthony Piñeiro
Heather E. Pryse (for bringing me into the fold of the UNT community so quickly)
Simón Ramírez
Steve Reich (for Come Out)
Aaron Ruggiere
Leslie Scalapino (for that they were at the beach, the catalyst and original title for GTM1)
Anna Schmelter
Ella Schrack-McPhee
Dr. Drew Schnurr
Royce Spears
Colin Stokes
Prof. David Stout
Kahan Taraporevala
Emily Vidaurri
Matthew Winning (for always complaining about Art with me)
Virginia Woolf (for Mrs. Dalloway)
Julian Yanas
Hannah Yetwin (for 31 years of friendship)
Bill Ziskin (for always reminding me, even now, to “Do it better”)

416 Bryan Street #1, Denton, TX 76201 (The Old House)
Arthur’s 1795, Schenectady, NY
Avoca Coffee Roasters, Denton, TX
Cherry Coffee Shop, Fort Worth, TX
Greater Things Roasters, Coxsackie, NY
Hartland Shop, Leeds, NY
Lemma Coffee Co., Carrollton, TX
Margaret Hall’s House, Greenville, NY
Red Star Cafe & Bakery, Cairo, NY
State University of New York at Albany
Uncommon Grounds, Saratoga Springs, NY
West Oak Coffee Bar, Denton, TX 

and Schenectady, NY (the whole city, for raising me right)