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ARTISTIC STAFF POSITIONS

Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory

Crystal Springs Uplands School

MAINSTAGE DIRECTING

Finding the Sun

I & You

US Drag

Persephone (Devised World Premiere)

Distracted

Proof

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Servant of Two Masters

Spamalot

The Little Mermaid

The Wizard of Oz

Cabaret

Once Upon a Mattress

ASSISTANT DIRECTING

The Old Man and the Sea (World Premiere)

Coming Home (World Premiere)

A Civil War Christmas (West Coast Premiere)

Tir Na Nog (World Premiere)

Monkey Room (World Premiere)

Romeo and Juliet

Much Ado About Nothing

STAGED READINGS

Plurality of Privacy

Candelabrum

Excerpt of Week

A Handful of White Petals

DRAMATURGY

A Civil War Christmas (World Premiere)

Hughie

The Glass Menagerie

Puah's Midwife Crisis (World Premiere)

Les Miserables

The Diviners

Our Town

TIr Na Nog (World Premiere)

CHOREOGRAPHY

Urinetown

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Oklahoma!

Hair

Living Annotations

Ongoing choreographer for liturgical dance

DIRECTING - YOUTH PRODUCTIONS

The Laramie Project

Urinetown

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Spamalot

Common Grounds

Aliens vs. Cheerleaders

The Audition

Betweenity

Kids Rule the World

Hairball

Deck the Stage

A Dream Of...

Hoodie

The Skokie Detective Charter School

Olympiaganza

Myth Adventures

The Lion King JR

Legally Blonde JR

Shrek JR

Guys & Dolls JR

Seussical JR

Once on This Island JR

G2K Cinderella

The Music Man JR

Free to Be, You and Me

How to Be

TEACHING

Youth Conservatory Director/Producer

Playing with Poetry

Acting Teacher & Director, Grades 6-12

ARTSBRIDGE Theatre Scholar

Eric Ting

Lisa Mallette

Meredith Hagerdorn

Cheryl Goodman-Morris

Eric Ting

Gordon Edelstein

Robert Kelley

Chris Smith

Mark Routhier

Kim Rubinstein

Lisa Mallette

Dale Albright

Will Brown

Paula Vogel

Robert Falls

Gordon Edelstein

Cheryl Goodman-Morris

Chris Smith

Stacie Doherty

AJ Diggins

Kim Harvath

Lindsay Saier

Raf Ornes

Naomi Downing

Producing Artistic Director, 2016-Present

Associate Artistic Director, 2009-2016

Acting Teacher/Director, 2015-2017

Long Wharf Theatre Stage II

City Lights Theatre Company

Dragon Theatre Productions

Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory

UC San Diego

Long Wharf Theatre

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

Magic Theatre

Shakespeare Santa Cruz

City Lights Theatre Company

Theatre Bay Area Conference

Arabian Shakespeare Festival

Long Wharf Theatre

Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory

Magic Theatre

Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory

UC San Diego

Valley Presbyterian Church

Crystal Springs Uplands School

Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

Crystal Springs Uplands School

UC San Diego

SKILLS & INTERESTS

New play development, Shakespeare, Commedia, Ensemble Devised Theatre, Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Basic Tap, Ballroom, Yoga, Running (marathoner!), Spanish, French, Italian, Travel, Cooking, Writing

COLLABORATIVE NEW WORK DEVELOPMENT & DEVISING

Company Member Goose Chase Inc., 1999-Present

Our company develops sketches, musicals, dances, physical theatre performances, and

dramatizations that are performed in conference settings for groups of up to 5,000 and offer

workshops in story development & collaborative theatre making

Page-to-Stage Director Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory, 2010-2015

An annual week-long project that guides a group of students through a playwriting and editing

process beginning with a blank page and resulting in a performance of their fully scripted original

piece

Once on an Island Academia dell’Arte, Arezzo, Italy

The culmination of a semester’s worth of studying various European approaches to devising and

physical theatre created in collaboration with fourteen peers

HONORS & AWARDS

Best Direction of a Play Nominee for I & You, Theatre Bay Area, 2015

TITAN Directing Award Winner, Theatre Bay Area, 2014

Dr. Milton D. Saier, Sr. Memorial Award, UCSD Department of Theatre & Dance, 2007

John L. Stewart Award for Outstanding Leadership in Humanities and the Arts, UCSD 2007

Chancellor’s Scholarship for Research in the Arts & Humanities, UCSD 2006

EDUCATION & TRAINING

BAs in Theatre & Dance, UC San Diego (Summa Cum Laude), 2007

Artistic Resident, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 2008-2009

Literary Intern, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 2007-2008

Advanced Training Leading Artists to Success (Directing Track), Theatre Bay Area, 2014

Nonprofit Governance and Leadership, Stanford University

Commedia, Clowning, Devising, Academia dell'Arte, Arezzo, Italy

Shakespeare Intensive, Stratford-Upon-Avon & London, UK through UCLA

Greek Mask & Chorus Intensive, Athens & Hydra Island, Greece through UC Davis

Summer Seminar for High School Juniors, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2002 & 2003

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