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ARTISTIC DIRECTION + PRODUCING

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Director of New Work, The Foundry — West Stockbridge, MA  |  Present

Curate and co-produce artist residencies including:

• Hysteria: The Wandering Womb, a new piece in development with composer and multi-instrumentalist Meaghan Burke

• Activating memory as a site for intergenerational healing and justice with poet and wordsworker Micah Rosegrant

• Don’t Touch the Art with visual artist and poet, Marudjina Normil

• Requiem for a Stranger with New Orleans based artists Renee Benson and Jenny Sargent
   

Co-Producing Artistic Director, The Berkshire Fringe —Berkshires, MA | 2005-2015

• Co-envisioned, produced and curated international theater festival

• Organized 50+ events annually including theater, dance, music and multimedia performances, free programs, community workshops, exhibitions, films and panel discussions

• Established EarlyStages, a new play development program for emerging writers under the mentorship of Laura Maria Censabella and Susan Kim

• Gained local, regional and national media attention for the festival in numerous outlets including The New York Times, New York Sun,  Boston Globe, NPR, American Theater Magazine and more

• Organized large-scale fundraising events and annual gala celebrations

• Cultivated a network of 500+ artists, playwrights, actors, directors choreographers, musicians, solo performers, composers and filmmakers 

• Collaborated closely with technicians and designers

• Managed staff, trained volunteers, mentored apprentices, and oversaw marketing, grant writing and daily operations 

 

COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY TEACHING & DIRECTING

 

Bard College at Simon’s Rock — Great Barrington, MA  |  2022-Present

Home of The Bard Queer Leadership Project + Bard Academy 

Assistant Professor of Theater

Courses taught: 

 

• Foundations of Acting (THEA 103/203)

• Listening, Analysis + Characterization (THEA 201/301)

• Solo Performance Lab  (THEA 207/307)

• Improvisation + Play (THEA 101) 

• Outrageous Theater: New Plays & Practices (THEA 157/257)

• Theater Production (THEA 206/306/406)

• Devising Theater (THEA 227)

• Performance Studies (THEA 300 T) 

• First Year Seminar II (FS 100) 

• Mask Making + Performance

 

Director:                  The Moors, RIOT,  She Kills Monsters, Oneirology 405 (devised),  

                                 The Archives (devised) 

 

Fight, Intimacy + Movement Director: Much Ado About Nothing, The Moors, RIOT,

 

B.A Thesis Advisor:     The Red Line (New Play) 

                                      Scenes From a Life (New Play)                   Being Alive (Cabaret performance)  

 

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts — North Adams, MA  |  2014–2016, 2021-2022

Adjunct Faculty and Guest Artist,  Fine and Performing Arts

• Guest Director: Intimate Apparel, Palimpsest2021, Noises Off, Dog Sees God, The MF w/ The Hat

• Guest Lecturer: Arts Administration & Entrepreneurship

• Acting Coach: Romeo & Juliet, The Liar, A Doll’s House

• Movement Consultant: Urinetown 

• Audition Technique Adjudicator 

 

Boston University — Boston, MA  |  2017–2020

MFA Directing Program, College of Fine Arts

Director: The Clean House, Beowulf: a thousand years of Baggage, Particularly in the Heartland, The Lathe of Heaven, Laughs in Spanish, …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi

• Teaching: Acting & Performance 

• Teaching Assistant: Dramatic Literature, Contemporary Drama

 

University at Albany — Albany, New York  |  2016-2017, 2020-2021

Adjunct Faculty: Department of Theatre and Music

• Guest Director: The Exonerated, New Play Arena

• Visiting Lecturer: Acting 1 instructor 

 

PROFESSIONAL THEATER / TEACHING ARTIST / RESIDENCIES

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2nd Street, Second Chances —Pittsfield, MA - 2023-Present

Co-Creator/Director/Lead Artist: RELEASE, REPAIR

• Collaborated with 2nd Street clients and local artists to create and devise two investigative theater pieces inspired by the stories of formerly incarcerated men and women in Berkshire County. RELEASE (2023) and REPAIR (2024) with a third project currently in development.

 

WAM Theatre — Lenox, MA

• Co-Director/Teaching Artist for Intergenerational Ensemble (2019)

• Co-Director, Facing Our Truth Project (Colonial Theater, 2016)

• Director/Curator/Project Facilitator, The Decade Project (2010)

 

Bazaar Productions, Inc — West Stockbridge, MA

Artist in residence at The Foundry (2019)

• Co-facilitator/Producer for The Pastrana Project (collaboration between Manos Unidas, Berkshire Immigrant Center and Tyler Street Cooperative)

• Director: Particularly in the Heartland 

 

Barrington Stage Company — Pittsfield, MA

• Artistic Mentor and Playwright for Playwright Mentoring Project (2013–2015)

 

Kickwheel Ensemble Theater — Hudson, NY/Great Barrington, MA

• Co-Producer/Director of Facing Our Truth - Collaboration withMulticultural Bridge (2017)

• Artist in Residence at The Millbrook School (2015)

• Director: PASSAGE (2016)

 

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art — North Adams, MA

• Artist in Residence and Director of The Waypoint (2010) 

• Director/Curator, 365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan Lori Parks (Collaboration with The Berkshire Fringe, 2007)

 

Dell’Arte International — Blue Lake, CA

• Actor, performer and company member (1999-2000)

• Director, Mobile Mask Unit, Guest artist for rural residency program

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EDUCATION + TRAINING

 

Boston University, College of Fine Arts — Boston, MA

M.F.A., Directing (Thesis: antiracism in collaborative theater making + devising practices) 

Voice: Paula Langton; Movement: Yo-El Cassell; Acting: Judy Epstein-Fischer, Alexander Technique: Betsy Pollitan, Stage Combat: Ryan Winkles; Playwriting: Kirsten Greenidge; Dramaturgy: Elana Brownstein; Dramatic Literature: Kristen Leahey; Lighting Design: Mark Stanley; Design Collaboration: Jim Petosa & Jim Noone

 

Dell’Arte International — Blue Lake, CA

Professional Training and Certification, Ensemble based Physical Theater

Movement: Laura Muñoz and Stephen Beuscher; Mask Performance, Commedia, Viewpoints: Joan Schirle; Corporeal Mime: Daniel Stein; Clown: Ronlin Foreman, Melodrama: Michael Fields

 

Bard College at Simon’s Rock — Great Barrington, MA

B.A., Performance Studies, Cum Laude

Acting, Linklater Voice and Movement: Karen Beaumont; Stage Combat: Corrina May; Voice & Speech: Johnny Lee Davenport; Stagecraft and Directing: Gary Mitchell

Workshops, Intensives, Training and Professional Development

Frantic Assembly (UK: CREATE Cohort, 2023); Sojourn Theater Institute/Center for Performance and Civic Practice; Theatrical Intimacy Educators (TIE); Sharell D. Luckett/Black Acting Methods Studio; Nicole Brewer/Anti-Racist Theater; Tectonic Theater Project; The National Theater of the Deaf; Shakespeare & Company; Shakespeare Sedona Institute; Fiasco Theater; Dell’Arte International; Under The Table Theater Ensemble.

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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION + INTEREST

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• Directing large and small scale productions

• Acting, directing and performance instruction (all levels)

• Director/ designer language building & collaboration

• Devised theater making and process facilitation

• Movement, intimacy and fight direction/choreography 

• Physical theater (embodied storytelling) 

• New play writing, development and dramaturgy

• Writing, direction and instruction for solo performance/embodied authorship

• Site-specific/immersive works 

• Intergenerational Theater

• Community and civic based performance and practice 

• Adaptations

• Multimedia/hybrid work 

• Arts administration and nonprofit management 

• Event curation and producing

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PUBLICATIONS + AWARDS

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Berkshire Taconic Foundation
Arts Build Community Grant Recipient for REPAIR & RELEASE (2022, 2023) 

 

White Silence in American Theater Training & Practice and the Urgency of Disrupting it (2020)

 

Is ‘Angels in America’ Tough to Teach? Maybe, But We’re Here to Learn

Co-Author, American Theatre Magazine (2018)

 

A Snowball’s Chance (Theater in an Age of Climate Change)

HowlRound Theater Commons (2016)

 

Martha Boschen Porter Fund

Grant for the Development of devised work, PASSAGE (2015) 

 

She’s Got Moxie Award

Presented by the Berkshire Festival of Women in the Arts (2010) 

 

Massachusetts Cultural Council

Awards Granted 2006-2014, 2019
 

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