Experience

Hartbeat Ensemble

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Artistic Director

  • Dec 2019 - Present

  Founded in 2001, HartBeat Ensemble's mission is to create provocative theater that connects our community beyond traditional barriers of race, gender, class and geography. ​ HartBeat Ensemble is the only institution in Hartford that is consistently using theater to speak powerfully across different generations, races, populations and interest groups. As an ensemble of artist-activists, we create as well as present innovative productions based on critical civic issues. HartBeat offers audiences the chance to experience and respond to the work they have just seen through live performance and guided conversations. Show less



Epic Theatre Ensemble

• • Jun 2004 - Present

• • May 2005 - Aug 2009



Above The Fold

• Executive Editor

  • Jan 2009 - Jul 2022

  Documentary Theatre Company that uses the tools of journalism to develop socially-conscious plays. Documentary Theatre Company that uses the tools of journalism to develop socially-conscious plays.



Desperate Comfort Films

• • Jan 2009 - Jul 2022

• • 2006 - 2009



Cornell University - College of Arts and Sciences

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Lecturer

  • Aug 2015 - Jul 2020

  Teach Beginning Acting and direct productions for undergraduates and graduate students in Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA). Serve on Performance and Events Committee to help to strategically plan theatre, film and dance seasons. Mentor students on PMA-approved projects. Teach Beginning Acting and direct productions for undergraduates and graduate students in Cornell's Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA). Serve on Performance and Events Committee to help to strategically plan theatre, film and dance seasons. Mentor students on PMA-approved projects.



Civic Ensemble

• Ithaca, NY & New York, NY

• Artistic Director

  • Jun 2012 - Nov 2019

  Run a community-based, professional theatre company in Ithaca, NY that also performs in NYC. Civic Ensemble believes theatre is everyone's birthright and realizes this vision by producing community-based plays, developing new plays by or about women and people of color, and re-imagining classics. Run a community-based, professional theatre company in Ithaca, NY that also performs in NYC. Civic Ensemble believes theatre is everyone's birthright and realizes this vision by producing community-based plays, developing new plays by or about women and people of color, and re-imagining classics.



Alternatives Federal Credit Union

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business CENTS Participant

  • 2014 - 2015



The Lark Theatre

• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Actor

  • 2001 - 2013



Cornell University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Aug 2011 - May 2012



Binghamton University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Lecturer

  • 2010 - 2011



Association of Teaching Artists

• Board Member

  • 2009 - 2011



The Youngblood Company at Ensemble Studio Theatre

• Actor

  • 2010 - 2010



New Dramatists

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Actor

  • 2010 - 2010



Independent

• Actor

  • 2009 - 2010



The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop

• Writing and Editing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Student

  • 2009 - 2009



Brooklyn Academy of Music

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Teaching Artist

  • 2005 - 2007



Cornell University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Aug 2003 - May 2005

  2005 Taught four semesters of Beginning Acting for BA program, including improvisation, monologues, and scene work. Performed roles in eight Cornell productions under URTA/Equity contract, including Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath and Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun. Mentored students through monologue coaching, audition workshops, and meetings. Served on Season Planning panels and Heermans McCalmon Student Playwriting competition reading panels. Directed Black Box production of Heermans McCalmon Award winner Vivian X. Show less

• • 2003 - 2005



Manhattan Theatre Club

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Teaching Artist

  • 1999 - 2003



Round House Theatre

• Actor

  • 2001 - 2001



Syracuse University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Actor

  • 2000 - 2001



Marymount Manhattan College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Jan 1998 - Jan 2000



Playwrights Horizons

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• • 1999 - 1999

• • 1999 - 1999



People's Light

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Former Company Member

  • Nov 1992 - Sep 1994

  Regional theatre in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Regional theatre in the suburbs of Philadelphia.



PEOPLE'S LIGHT & THEATRE COMPANY

• Company Member

  • Jan 1992 - Jan 1994



Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Actor

  • 1988 - 1992



William & Mary

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Student

  • 1984 - 1988