Experience

The Old Globe

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Stage Manager

  • 2005 - Present

  • Established trust with the creative team, exercised discretion with confidential information, fostered a culture of community, anticipated production needs, and cultivated a safe space for artists and technicians to produce their best work. • Collaborated with diverse cross-functional creative teams of administrative staff, creative designers, contracted artists, and external vendors to produce high-quality large-scale live entertainment productions from concept to completion. • Upheld the cohesive creative vision of the production by establishing trusting relationships with the creative team to ensure artistic integrity, noting inconsistencies, overseeing technical elements, and mentoring interns and production assistants. • Instituted clear lines of communication between multi-disciplinary teams by facilitating production meetings, authoring and distributing detailed notes and action items, assigning tasks to individual departments, and ensuring project alignment. • Drove theatrical production life cycles from first rehearsal to completion, identified workflow backlogs, instituted and improved processes to streamline operational tasks, developed progress protocols to refine consistency between team members. Show less



MiraCosta College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Faculty Instructor

  • Aug 2017 - Dec 2020

  • Developed a challenging curriculum by designing educational course materials, in-class assignments, and learning activities to appeal to the curiosity of all collegiate state manager interest levels based on years of professional field experience. • Broadened student’s understanding of the life cycle of a play from development and season selection through closing night, highlighting the role of stage management as a central hub of communication between producers, designers, and talent. • Assigned students practical experience in generating daily schedules, distributing reports, compiling a production book, and producing paperwork aimed at synthesizing data for creative departments to utilize. • Fostered leadership by introducing management styles, develop problem-solving and interpersonal skills, and encouraged students to consider the perspective of the cast, crew, and audience, and expanded their ability to anticipate the needs of their teams. Show less



Freelance

• Event Coordinator

  • 2011 - 2018

  • Executed memorable events and experiences fulfilling clients’ visions by leading internal and external teams to produce high-caliber productions at venues seating 500+ and event spaces with 1,000+ attendees. • Developed complex timelines, devised, distributed, and upheld monthly, weekly, and daily schedules, detailed paperwork, and workflow processes for the production team to remain on schedule while driving targeted milestones for deliverables. • Nimbly resolved customer and guest concerns, proposed creative solutions to complex real-time issues, facilitated conflict resolution, overcame obstacles, rectified problematic circumstances, and responded to emergency situations calmly. • Developed and fostered relationships with internal and external partners and clients, managed event logistics from set-up to tear down, and facilitated real-time decision-making to ensure events were perceived as flawless to the guests. Show less



La Jolla Playhouse

• United States
• Performing Arts
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant Stage Manager

  • 2007 - 2017

  • Maintained a high level of organization and documentation that allowed for the successful development of a production from first draft to final performance. • Developed and executed strategies to tackle complex challenges, including the precise timing of moving scenic elements, backstage egress, and navigating interpersonal issues. • Lead and instructed backstage crews during technical rehearsals and performances to ensure consistency and safety. • Created documents used by multiple departments to track changes in workflow, allowing them to pivot priorities as needed. Show less