Event Manager

• Aug 2022 - Present

Professional Performance Instructor and Coach

• Nov 2021 - Present

I plan, implement, and facilitate highly specialized and tailored trainings for private coaching and university workshops and presentations. I specialize in coursework designed to increase vulnerability, authenticity, presentation, and public speaking skills as well as the artistry and business of live performance arts. I plan, implement, and facilitate highly specialized and tailored trainings for private coaching and university workshops and presentations. I specialize in coursework designed to increase vulnerability, authenticity, presentation, and public speaking skills as well as the artistry and business of live performance arts.

Production Manager

• Oct 2021 - Sep 2022

* Production Management: Liaison with stakeholders for multi-million-dollar events, including Liberty Mutual, Salesforce, and Dairy Queen, overseeing the build and design onsite from setup to tear-down. Oversee the production from pre-production to strike including working on site alongside the crew, interacting with clients, vendors, trucking, site staff, and warehouse to make sure all deliverables are met and on time. Staff and manage the crew, time sheets, as well as schedule their times in adherence with union protocols and the needs of the leads and clients. Aim to save on budget actuals versus proposals wherever possible. Anticipate problems before they arise and delegate them to be addressed. * Flow Management: Being aware of the vision of the production and coordinating the moving components, gently direct and manage the workflow of the various departments to keep everyone on time, working happily and healthily and able to respond quickly to proposed changes from clients and designers. * Client Management: Interact with lead clients, to accommodate any and all requests, relay to the team leads, communicate progress with client, see through to final product. * Assisting in Logistics and Travel: Oversee the trucking requests, support the travel sheets and coordination, trip planning. Show less

Digital Marketing Manager

• Jan 2020 - May 2022

* Created and implemented 8-week marketing campaigns for live productions * Created short sizzle reel videos, staged and shot pre-production photos with cast members, managed social media and E-blast content to subscribers * Improved the company's connection significantly by working with community partners to get them in the arts database for our area in order to improve distribution rates * Created and implemented 8-week marketing campaigns for live productions * Created short sizzle reel videos, staged and shot pre-production photos with cast members, managed social media and E-blast content to subscribers * Improved the company's connection significantly by working with community partners to get them in the arts database for our area in order to improve distribution rates

Stage Director | Instructor

• Jan 2013 - Apr 2020

* 3 years highest level Acting Institute Instructor for college-preparatory program * Developed and implemented curriculum for year-long pre-professional training program for young actors including acting techniques such as Meisner, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, and Utah Hagen, audition techniques, devising theater, and final performance of both scripted and original, written material * 3 years highest level Acting Institute Instructor for college-preparatory program * Developed and implemented curriculum for year-long pre-professional training program for young actors including acting techniques such as Meisner, Stanislavsky, Chekhov, and Utah Hagen, audition techniques, devising theater, and final performance of both scripted and original, written material

Interim Marketing Manager

• Nov 2019 - Jan 2020

When I was brought on board the current show sold at less than 30% of its goal to sold at 115% of goal in just three weeks. I created advertising content for social media/website/ads, retrieved and managed a budget, traced down lost information and managed relationships with dozens of external vendors. I worked alongside the development officer for the end of the year campaign, wrote, filmed, and edited video, photo, and speech materials for the campaign which superseded its goal two weeks early. Show less

Program Manager

• Jun 2014 - Oct 2019

* Was the founding creator of a dramatic arts program for a research-based education and philanthropic organization founded on using nontraditional styles of learning in and out of schools * I lead teams in professional development, early childhood education, dramatic arts, and music theater programing * Recruited and staffed teaching artist/employees, worked alongside HR and oversaw training and on-boarding Worked alongside HR to recruit ired, trained, and led teams of employees, teachers, and contracted teaching artists * Created and implemented programming * Designed research studies, collected and performed * Directed, produced and created programs and large scale events * Spoke at multiple national and international conferences on the research and findings of my programs * Worked solo and in teams, presented and co-presented research, wrote and developed material for a published article on social justice theater * Pitched ideas, developed a team, and grew the program from its original formation, as an external contractor, to managing and directing over 25 projects and programs at a time and boasting the largest number of department employees and often, largest number of students involved aside from the internship program * Managed the mentors for student-led projects * Wrote/taught/and shared research-based and innovative curriculum with dramatic arts based pedagogy in PreK-pre-college schools and training programs * Coordinated, scheduled, and researched collaborative programing with companies, organizations, and schools in the Seattle area http://foundry10.org/areas-overview/drama/ Show less

Lead Facilitator

• Sep 2013 - Feb 2019

Lead classrooms, workshops, and directed programs using leadership practicum and dramatic arts based pedagogy for companies and schools such as the following: * Microsoft, led workshops at conference of over five hundred employees on the art of story development through Intiman Theater's program * Professional Development workshops with teaching artists and teachers through foundry10 * Seattle Children's Theater- led classes ages 3-18, special artist including makeup and stage combat, physical comedy, and mask work. Mentored younger teaching artists. * Village Theater- directed multiple theater productions including technical elements and three weeks of sold out houses, as well as developed * Creative Arts Preschool for Village Theater- ran an arts preschool, developing and implementing curriculum * Stone Soup Theater- acting classes * Coeur d'Alene summer theater- developed inaugural program plans and mentored newer teachers * Kapka elementary- founded a dramatic arts program * Salmon Bay- directed full scale production for early childhood and elementary * Studio East- taught singing and musical theater classes Show less

Corporate Training/Facilitator

• 2015 - 2019

* Workshops: Created curriculum, co-taught with the CEO of Intiman, for major technology companies such as Edeleman and Microsoft. Co-led a room of twenty to thirty tech company employees in full-day and half-day traniings in storytelling and group dynamics. * Keynote Speaker for The Clute Institute International Education Conference, Orlando, 2019 for around 150 researchers, educators, and other professionals as well as the Clute staff for an hour long presentation. After being voted the most engaging workshop several years in a row on various topics, the Clute invited my feedback on program development for their conference and subsequently invited me to do the keynote as well as pre-conference workshops. It was on engagement and being PRESENT in our presentations. Show less

Corporate Trainer/Director

• Jan 2012 - Mar 2014

* Cultivated new processes and strategies for efficiency * Trained new employees in best practices in implementing the curriculum/running rehearsals effectively * Managed communication with company's clients including schools, parents, and companies * Counseled and debriefed new employees on problem solving and facilitation of positive group dynamics * Cultivated new processes and strategies for efficiency * Trained new employees in best practices in implementing the curriculum/running rehearsals effectively * Managed communication with company's clients including schools, parents, and companies * Counseled and debriefed new employees on problem solving and facilitation of positive group dynamics

Director of the Elon Challenge Course

• Jan 2009 - Jul 2011

* I hired, trained, and managed employees of the Challenge Course * I implemented process improvements and designed strategies for engagement * I led high-end business groups to education-related groups through group dynamics and leadership building exercises on the ropes course * Lead Facilitator and trained other facilitators * I hired, trained, and managed employees of the Challenge Course * I implemented process improvements and designed strategies for engagement * I led high-end business groups to education-related groups through group dynamics and leadership building exercises on the ropes course * Lead Facilitator and trained other facilitators

Assistant to the Creative Director

• Jun 2010 - Sep 2010

* Worked as the personal assistant to the Creative Director of a Disney First-Look Producer, Panay Films on Disney's campus *Wrote script coverage of numerous new film scripts * Pitched and created storyboards * Assisted with creative development and administrative duties * Ran errands, delivered mail, retained highly sensitive information and tasks * Worked as the personal assistant to the Creative Director of a Disney First-Look Producer, Panay Films on Disney's campus *Wrote script coverage of numerous new film scripts * Pitched and created storyboards * Assisted with creative development and administrative duties * Ran errands, delivered mail, retained highly sensitive information and tasks