a little bit of everything.
ongoing
I’m a resident actor at Mercury Store.
2025
october 1: I penned a guest essay for The Grade about Abbott Elementary. But it’s really about how understanding the conventions of form is a crucial aspect of (media) literacy. And it’s really really about not getting your politics from a TV show.
september 1: I wrote a guest essay for Articles of Interest—it’s, more or less, about the historical and cultural mundanity of men wearing skirts.
june 28: I wrote a review of Cold War Choir Practice for 3Views.
june 18-20: I was in a developmental workshop with the New Dramatists: very fun, and very Nigerian.
june 17: My New City Critics fellowship with the Architectural League of New York and the Urban Design Forum culminated in “New City Critics: Monuments, Peripheries & Ecologies” at a83. My and my peers’ capstone essays were published in a limited-edition physical publication; or you can read my essay online here.
february 7 – march 9: I appeared in the Huntington Theatre Company’s production of The Grove by Mfoniso Udofia.
2024
april-may: I was part of the Vox Media Writers Workshop for early-career journalists. I gained a mentor in Justine Calma, senior science reporter at The Verge, and reported on tennis court concessions in Bed-Stuy.
things I’m currently thinking about
- Will there be WNBA in 2026?
- The speed with which even a gesture towards ethnic specificity kicks off Black diasporic conflict (“I enforce that” – Monaleo)
- The influencer-fication of the US Open, and $100 chicken nuggets
- (***** I’m from) Texas
- One of my favorite restaurants disappearing off Too Good To Go
- It’s back—never take anything for granted
Ekemini Ekpo 