Experience

Coeurage Ensemble
• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Artistic Director

  • Jan 2020 - Present


Los Angeles Lady Arm Wrestlers

• Executive Producer

  • May 2012 - Present

  Theatrical social justice performance. Arm wrestling events that raise money for arts-based and women-run non-profits in our community.

• Producer

  • Jan 2012 - Jan 2020

  Theatrical Lady Arm Wrestling that raises money for live art in LA. Spectacle, Sport, Theater, Performance, Community.



Fugitive Kind.

• Performing Arts

• ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Mission statement: Fugitive Kind is a live performance ensemble that tells big stories in little rooms. We are a company training, working, and playing together. We believe in live-ness and that all theater must begin with joy. We make the contemporary theater experience necessary by creating experiential events devoid of pretense and powered by the raw materials of being human. Our goal is to produce a new paradigm for theater in Los Angeles by remaking the best of yesterday's stories, by performing those crafted by today's most imaginative story makers, and by training new artists to create as Fugitive Kind. Show less



Make Trouble Theater

• Co-Founder, Co-Artistic Director

  • Jan 2015 - Present

  Advanced training and repertory performance in ensemble, devising, and Shakespeare. Advanced training and repertory performance in ensemble, devising, and Shakespeare.



California State University, Northridge

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professor, Performance Studies

  • 2011 - Present

  Teach Narrative In Performance, Poetry in Performance, Performance and Social Change. Classes teach students to develop skills in script creation, devising technique, community-based performance, Theater of the Oppressed, and creative problem solving. Teach Narrative In Performance, Poetry in Performance, Performance and Social Change. Classes teach students to develop skills in script creation, devising technique, community-based performance, Theater of the Oppressed, and creative problem solving.



Manawatu Summer Shakespeare

• Resident Artist 2012

  • Dec 2011 - Apr 2012

  Directed Much Ado About Nothing, taught Shakespeare in Performance Workshops to area high schools. Directed Much Ado About Nothing, taught Shakespeare in Performance Workshops to area high schools.



University of Virginia

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Guest Director

  • Oct 2009 - Feb 2010

  Directed The Seagull Directed The Seagull


Live Arts Theater
• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Director and Educator

  • 1999 - 2010


Te Papa Museum, National Museum of New Zealand

• FREE-LANCE DIRECTOR

  • Jun 2009 - Oct 2009

  Worked with refugee community to develop performance pieces on themes of settlement, family, and cultural identity. Group included refugees from Bhutan, Congo, Rwanda, Cambodia. Involved building relationships with each of these communities as well as encouraging commonalities between ethnic groups who had no prior relationship. Communicated the creative process to non-native English speakers, developed a creative event in the first languages of the participants, used physical theater as a primary language. The piece developed as theater and then adapted for film, which will be part of a permanent exhibition at Te Papa Museum in Wellington, New Zealand opening in April 2010. Show less



Massey

• United States

• Guest Lecturer

  • Feb 2009 - Oct 2009

  2009) Tutored graduate level course in Community-based Theatre. Taught devising techniques and methods for community collaboration, worked with students to develop scripts and performance from their field research in the NZ youth justice system.

• Guest Lecturer

  • Feb 2009 - Feb 2009

  2009) Tutored undergraduate courses: Creative Processes and Making Plays for Theater ­ introductory and advanced courses for students in Expressive Arts Major. Taught devising techniques, playwriting, narrative structure, and movement for the stage.INSTRUCTOR, UCOL Performing Arts Training School, New Zealand (2008) Taught Viewpoints and Composition for character development and as a devising technique to graduate acting class in one of New Zealand's most prominent actor-training programs. Show less



University of California, Irvine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT

  • Sep 2006 - Jun 2007

  Assisted Professor Bill Rauch in undergraduate directing classes. Focusing on A Doll's House, taught directing technique including stage picture, rhythm, building ensemble, character and scene development. ASSISTANT TO THE HEAD OF DIRECTING, UC Irvine (2006-2007) Supervised and mentored all undergraduate directors in classes and in laboratory productions, managed rehearsal spaces, and did publicity for all undergraduate shows. Assisted Professor Bill Rauch in undergraduate directing classes. Focusing on A Doll's House, taught directing technique including stage picture, rhythm, building ensemble, character and scene development. ASSISTANT TO THE HEAD OF DIRECTING, UC Irvine (2006-2007) Supervised and mentored all undergraduate directors in classes and in laboratory productions, managed rehearsal spaces, and did publicity for all undergraduate shows.



UC Irvine (2006)

• GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT

  • Sep 2005 - Dec 2005

  Assisted senior faculty from dance and studio art in undergraduate general arts class: administered and graded tests, exams, and papers, held conferences. Assisted senior faculty from dance and studio art in undergraduate general arts class: administered and graded tests, exams, and papers, held conferences.



American Shakespeare Center

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• EDUCATION ASSOCIATE/DIRECTOR OF YOUTH PROGRAMS

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

• ACTOR

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2001

  Traveling repertory and first Blackfriars residency. Played Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dol Common in The Alchemist, Osric, Second Gravedigger, Reynaldo, Barnardo in Hamlet, and ensemble in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Duties also included stage lighting, prop construction and maintenance, driving vans, loading in sets and costumes, and teaching workshops.



Virginia Film Festival

• United States
• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• PRODUCTION COORDINATOR

  • Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  Responsible for maintaining donor and guest database Coordinated and issued tickets to VIPs and festival guests Coordinated all parties and receptions Maintained donor and sponsor relations Worked closely with PR firm to plan press conferences PROP BUILDER, PROP MASTER, UVa Drama Department; Built props for all productions. Maintained prop storage and loan. Proficient with paint and glue techniques, tablesaw, drill press, bandsaw, pneumatic nail and staple guns, jigsaw, sawzall, and other power tools. Show less