RESUME
Professional
info
Like many involved in theatre, I started acting in children's theatre at a young age, but have moved beyond performance to teaching and scholarship. I have been studying devising techniques with SITI Company and Tectonic Theatre Company (Trained Moment Work Teacher) for close to 15 years and try to incorporate the values of awareness and collaboration to every project I tackle.
Teaching Recognition
Nominated twice for the Teaching and Mentoring Excellence Award, York College of Pennsylvania: 2019 and 2021
Teaching
experience
Associate Professor, Theatre Program, August 2015-present
York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA
Courses: Acting, Directing, Arts Administration, Dramaturgy, Dramatic
Literature, First Year Seminar, Senior Capstone in Theatre
Course Releases: Theatre Coordinator, Directing, Overseeing Box Office
Minors: Theatre, Arts Administration (started 2017) and Dance (started 2019)
Certificate Program: Theatre Endorsement approved by PA Department of Education, 2018.
Awards: 2 Great to Greater Grants, 3 Faculty Development Grants
Fellowships: Diversity Fellow 2022; Digital Faculty Fellow 2019-2022
Assistant Professor, Theatre Program, August 2013-May 2015
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH
Courses: Acting, Dramatic Literature, First Year Seminar
Course Release: Directing
Award: Sustainability Fellowship
Assistant Professor, Theatre Program, January 2010-May 2013
Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
Courses: Acting, Directing, First Year Seminar
Course Releases: Theatre Coordinator, Directing, Overseeing Box Office
Awards: University Mission Integration Grant, RI Campus Compact Presidential Faculty Fellowship
Instructor, Theatre Program, August 2012-May 2013
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
Course: Aesthetics in Context: The Artistic Impulse
Instructor, Theatre Program, January 2008-December 2009
Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Course: Art of Theatre (multiple sections)
Instructor: English Program, August 2007-December 2009
UMass, Lowell, Lowell, MA
Courses: Intro to Theatre, Directing
Visiting Assistant Professor, Theatre Department, August 2006-May 2007
Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA
Courses: Arts Administration, Devising
Course Release: Overseeing the Box Office
Service to the Profession
Performance Review Editor, Texas Theatre Journal, 2016-2022
Member Leadership Committee, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 2, Co-Chair of Region 2, 2022-2025; Chair, Society for Stage Directors & Choreographers Directing Intensive 2019-2022, Co-Coordinator Fringe Festival 2017-18
Regional Representative Alpha Psi Omegan, Region 3, 2022
Member Governing Council (MAL, Finances) Association of Theatre in Higher Education, 2018-2021
Respondent: Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 2, Eastern Corridor and Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship Competition, 2016-present
Judge: 2020 Distinguished Play Committee, Adaptations from Existing Literature, American Alliance for Theatre & Education
Judge: 2020, 2021& 2022 Regional Poetry Out Loud competition, Central PA
Judge: FBLA-PBL National Leadership Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 2018
Education
The Catholic University of America, 2003-2006
MFA. Theatre Directing, August 2006
Thesis: Marisol by Jose Rivera, February 2006
Graduate Advisor: Naum Panovski
Goucher College, Towson, MD, 1998-2002
MA. Arts Administration, August 2002
Thesis title: Fitting the Arts in Education: An Examination of High Stakes Testing and Mandates Stemming from an Internship in the Arts,
published by Lambert Academic Publishing, February 2010, 9783838312446
Graduate Advisor: Suzanne Olson
Connecticut College, New London, CT
B.A. Theatre, Psychology minor
Continuing Training :
Artistic Mental Health Practitioner training, Bridget McCarthy, CTSS, CTRT, AMHP, Healing Arts Education
Theater Sicily Training & Performance with Daniel Stein, June 2022
Viewpoints Pedagogy & Practice with Wendell Beavers, online, January 2022
Intimacy Directors & Choreographers, Consent in Improv, online, January 2022
Restorative Justice with Noelle Johnson, online, December 2021
Theatrical Intimacy Education, Race & Choreography with Kaja Dunn, online, December 2021
Mental Health First Aid certification, National Council for Mental Wellbeing, online, Aug 2021
Intimacy Coordinators of Color, Intimacy Captain training & certification, online, July 2021
Theatrical Intimacy Education, Trauma Informed Practices & Consent in the Classroom, online, June 2021
Theatrical Intimacy Education, Theatrical Studio Techniques, online, April 2021
Theatrical Intimacy Education, Best Practices, online, February 2021
Nicole Brewer: Anti-Racist Theatre, online, January 2021
Jessica Blank: Character Based Story Structure, online, 2020
Viewpoints Master Class for Directors with Anne Bogart, NYC, 2019
Moment Work Institute Teacher Training Certified, NYC, 2018
New Play Dramaturgy Intensive with Mark Bly, Kennedy Center, DC, 2017
Devising Weekend Training, Elevator Repair Service, NYC, 2017
Fundamentals of Viewpoints Training with Anne Bogart, NYC, 2016
Devising and Performance with Tim Miller on the mall in Washington, DC, 2012
Theatre Directing with Rinde Eckert, Southampton Arts Summer Program, 2012
Devising from Literature, Ghost Road Theatre Company, KO Festival, 2011
Directors Lab, West, Pasadena Playhouse, 2005
Summer Training Congress, American Conservatory Theatre, 1996