Lyric Stage Company of Boston

Boston, MA

Associate Artistic Director

July 2018 – present

Emerson College

Boston, MA

Senior Affiliated Faculty

September 2002 – present

Recipient of the 2012 Alan L. Stanzler Award for Excellence in Teaching

Undergraduate

Graduate

Undergraduate & Graduate

Playwriting with Youth—Developed and created curriculum for the class. Through this program (Coyote Theatre Project) and the original Coyote Theatre program (Tremont Street Project) more than 200 new plays have been written by at-risk youth of Boston.

Emerson Summer Stage
for High School Students

Boston, MA

Program Director

January 2004 – August 2009

Acting and Musical Theatre Programs. This intensive, college-prep, five-week program consisted of daily classes in Contemporary Monologues & Audition Technique, Acting Studio 1, Musical Theatre Studio, Shakespeare, Dance, and Voice and Movement as well as weekly Master Classes in areas such as Acting for the Camera, Improvisation, Physical Comedy, Solo Performance, Stage Make-Up, Viewpoints, Auditions, and Stage Combat (armed and unarmed). Each student performed a classic and contemporary monologue or sonnet as well as a 10–15 minute piece specifically chosen to highlight and challenge their talents.
Designed and created both program and curriculums. Worked with Brynna Bloomfeld to create and implement the Stage Design Program, which began in 2008.
Selected and supervised all faculty, staff, and students. Taught Shakespeare, coached monologues and sonnets, selected and directed final scenes. For the summer of 2009, the program enrolled 19 students in Acting and 17 in Musical Theatre.

Commonwealth Shakespeare Company

Boston, MA

Director of Education & Outreach

May 2000 – December 2002

Administrative Assistant

August 2000 – September 2002

Selected and worked with 20+ college interns per season in all aspects of production.
Directed and toured a 90-minute production to several area parks.
Structured classes and workshops for college interns.
Arranged and trained interns to lead approximately 50 workshops on Shakespeare and his theatre to student groups in Boston and surrounding areas.
Arranged for groups of students to attend a performance and meet with members of the cast.

The Coyote Theatre

Boston, MA

Artistic Director

July 2004 – October 2005

Associate Artistic Director

September 1998 – October 2002

Tremont Street Project (Coyote Theatre’s Education & Outreach Program)

Playmaking Teacher and Director

Spring 1998 – September 2003 (Program then became an Emerson College coursePlaywriting with Youth)
Working with inner-city, at-risk youth teaching them the fundamentals of playmaking, leading them in a writers weekend working one-on-one with professional playwrights, and producing and directing the premieres of their 10-minute plays.

Emerson College

Boston, MA

M.A. in Theatre Education

Cabrini College Radnor, PA

B.A. in English, concentration in Theatre

Cum Laude, Cabrini Honor Society

Theatre Department Award for Excellence

Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges

Professional Training

Inclusive Excellence Faculty Fellow, Emerson College, May 2014
Information Literacy Collaborative, Emerson College, May 2010
Improvisation workshop with Emerson faculty led by Keith Johnstone, April 2008
Improvisation workshop with Emerson faculty led by Keith Johnstone, May 2007
52nd Street Project’s Playmaking workshop, taught by project founder Daniel Judah Sklar, Feb. 2001