EDUCATION
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) M.F.A. in Theatre (Acting/Directing and Theatre Pedagogy) GPA 4.0, 2009
Michael Howard Studio One Year Acting Conservatory Program, Certificate, 2003-2004
Washington University in St. Louis B.A. in Theatre (Emphasis in Acting), Magna Cum Laude, 2000
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON (August 2009-present)
Senior Lecturer in Theatre (August 2018-present)
Lecturer in Theatre (Full-time Renewable Term Appointment Fall 2013-August 2018)
Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2010-Spring 2013) Adjunct Faculty (Fall 2009-Spring 2010)
Courses:
FSEM: Solo Performance and You
THEA 111: Introduction to Theatre
THEA 112: Introduction to Acting
THEA 271B: Audition Techniques
THEA 321: Acting One
THEA 322: Acting Two
THEA 411: Acting Styles
THEA 482: Senior Project
THEA 491: Individual Study
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GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Summer 2014)
Professorial Lecturer in Theatre
Courses:
TRDA 1214: Introduction to Acting
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VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY (2007-2009)
Adjunct Faculty (Spring 2008-Spring 2009)
Courses:
THEA 107: Introduction to Stage Performance
THEA 113: Acting One
SPCH 121: Effective Speech
THEA 491: Monologue Technique
Teaching Assistant (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)
Courses:
THEA 212: Introduction to Drama
THEA 308: History of Theatre
THEA 313: Actors’ Studio
THEA 314: Actors’ Studio
ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Imagination Stage, Summer 2011-2013
Teaching Artist
Acting Shakespeare: The Tragedies, Acting Shakespeare: The Comedies, and Acting 101.
Clear Space Theatre Company, Summer 2012
Director of Acting
Directed a week long all day acting intensive for ages 6-18, culminating in final performance.
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City of Fairfax Theatre Company, Summer 2010
Teaching Artist
Taught six-week acting camp for ages 6-16.
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The Richmond Shakespeare Company, 2007-2009
Teaching Artist
Taught various Shakespeare acting intensives for ages 8-17.
SPECIALIZED TRAINING
Linklater Vocal Training, 12-hour Intensive, Jen Rabbitt Ring, Fall 2019
Shakespeare & Company Center for Actor Training Weekend Intensive, Fall 2018, Tina Packer
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Advanced Actor Training: Tennessee Williams Workshop, Atlantic Theater, NYC, Fall 2017, Karen Kohlhaas
Alliance of Acting Teachers Annual Conference, New School, NYC, Summer 2017, Karen Kohlhaas
Teacher Training Monologue Workshop, Atlantic Theater, NYC, Summer 2016
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Teacher Development Program, Actors Center, NYC, Summer 2011
Slava Dolgachev; Artistic Director, New Theatre of Moscow
Ron Van Lieu; Chair of the Acting Program, Yale School of Drama
On-camera acting (NYC): Alexandra Neil
Audition Skills (NYC): Caryn West
Alexander Technique for Actors (NYC): Daniel Singe
Movement and Lucid Body Technique (NYC): Fay Simpson
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Shakespearian Verse Technique and Style (NYC and London): Elizabeth Swain, Jane Lapotaire (RSC), Patrick Spottiswoode (Globe)
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Text Analysis (NYC): Slava Dolgachev, Diane Shalet
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Scene Study (NYC): Ron Van Lieu, Michael Howard, Larry Singer
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Improvisation (NYC): Jane Nichols, Armando Diaz
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Monologue Technique (NYC): Jacqueline Brogan
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Vocal Production: Make Your Voice Heard (NYC): David Wells
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Vocal Training for the Stage: Janet Rodgers
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International Training: Globe Theatre Program, London, England
ACTING EXPERIENCE
Off-Broadway
The Vagina Monologues
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Ensemble
The Soho Playhouse
Off - Off Broadway
Church
Sally
Macbeth
Push Up 1-3
Stories of Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Choir
Laura
Third Witch
Maria
Ensemble
Lady Bracknell
Young Jean Lee's Theater Company/PS 122 / Young Jean Lee
Afrikan Women’s Repertory
The Cage Theatre Company
Desert Apple Theatre Company/ Cynthia Dillon
Waterloo Bridge Theatre Company
Waterloo Bridge Theatre Company
Regional
Sense and Sensibility
Hootenanny
The Lady and the Tyrant
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Isis and Vesco
The Woman in Black
Fool for All
Plays on the American Mask
All My Sons
MAE (premiere )
The Exonerated
Agnes of God
Count Basil (premiere )
Royal Gambit
The Merchant of Venice
In Good Company : Sexual Icons (premiere)
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Mrs. Jennings
Samantha
Lady
u/s (Gertrude / Tragedian)
Isis
Woman in Black
Innamorata
Innamorata
Sue Bayliss
Beverly West
Sandra / Sue
Dr. Martha Livingstone
Isabella
Kathryn Howard
Salerino and Salerio
Madeline
Folger Theatre / Eric Tucker
Guillotine Theatre /
Guillotine Theatre /
Folger Theatre / Aaron Posner
Guillotine Theatre /
Keegan Theatre / Mark Rhea, Colin Smith
Faction of Fools Theatre Company /
Faction of Fools Theatre Company /
Keegan Theatre / Susan Rhea
Mead Theatre Lab / Paul Awad
Synapse Theatre Company /
Rhodora Theatre Company /
Horizons Theatre Company / Leslie Jacobson
British Players /
Shakespeare in the Parque /
Horizons Theatre Company / Leslie Jacobson
Readings
What Happens Stays
Virginian Luxuries
Virago
Sinner - Man
The Revelation of Bobby Pritchard
Waiting Lessons
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Magnificent Waste
Blackmail
Shanghai to Beijing
That Takes Ovaries
She
Permillia
Crimson Queen
Lumberjack #1
Kathy
Claire
Mrs. Hasty Malone
Lizzie B
Jenny and Michelle
Sue
Rachel
Kennedy Center/Catherine Aselford
Spooky Action Theater /
Kennedy Center / Catherine Aselford
Theater Alliance / Clementine Thomas
Spooky Action Theater /
DC SWAN Day 2012 /
CTEK Arts / Arena Stage / Margaret Van Sant
Firehouse Theatre Project /
Playwright's Forum /
Playwright's Forum /
Horizons Theatre Company /
Television
Twisted Fate
Stolen Voices Buried Secrets
Who the Bleep Did I Marry?
Who the Bleep Did I Marry?
The Teacher
Charlotte Woody
Party Goer
Patricia Cornwell
Sirens Media / Lifetime
Sirens Media / Discovery
Sirens Media / Discovery
Sirens Media / Discovery
Commericals
Verizon Wireless, Nokia On-line
Independent Film
The Good Listener
The Good Guys
Brokerage Agent
Festival Patron
Randall Blair
Glamorama Pictures
​Corporate and Industrial Film
The Vote Counts
Breathe
Young Mom / Supporting
Woman / Supporting
Move On / PAC
Link Technologies, LLC
New Play Workshops
Artists' Bloc, The Green Sweater by Hannah Rebecca Folger, March 2012
Played the role of Amy in new play workshop sessions
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Artists' Bloc, Interconnected by Brian Schwartz and Karen Snyder, March 2012
Played the role of Sarah in new play workshop sessions
DIRECTING EXPERIENCE
Tanner (reading)
God of Carnage
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Steel Magnolias
Frozen
Lady Windermere’s Fan
The Miss Firecracker Contest
Chance Encounter
Four Riffs For A Sailor
Into The Woods .
Gina and Her GPS
The Glass Menagerie
Return to the Upright Position
Minimalist Mondays
Keegan Theatre
Keegan Theatre
University of Mary Washington
University of May Washington
University of Mary Washington
University of Mary Washington
University of Mary Washington
DC SWAN Day
Guillotine Theatre/Kennedy Center
City of Fairfax Theatre Co.
DC SWAN Day
Virginia Commonwealth University
Firehouse Theatre Project
Virginia Commonwealth University
Fall 2019
Spring 2019 (Assistant Director)
Spring 2018
Spring 2017
Spring 2016
Spring 2015
Fall 2013
2013
Page-to-Stage Festival
2012
Assistant Director to Janet B. Rodgers
DRAMATURGICAL EXPERIENCE
The Glass Menagerie
In Good Company: Sexual Icons
Spinning Into Butter (assistant)
Richard II (assistant)
Directed by Janet B. Rodgers
Directed by Leslie Jacobson
Directed by Scott Zigler
Directed by Robert Woodruff
VCU
Horizons Theatre
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis
ART, Cambridge
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2009-2019
Paper: "Making Conventions to Break Conventions: Inventing New Rules to Succeed Artistically"
Paper: “Spinning Out of Control: Navigating Professional Practice in the Academic Realm”
Paper: “Overcoming the Obstacle: Less Trying and More Doing Both On Stage and Off”
Paper: “Variety is the Spice of Something: An Examination of the 2015 Capital Fringe Festival production of Cold As Death:
The Lady and the Tyrant”
Paper: “Inspiration and the Individual: Working Through A Divergent Vision"
Paper: “Contemporizing Commedia: Re-envisioning the Renaissance”
Paper: “Producing a Pearl: A Comparison of Community vs. Professional Theatre Work and How Myths of Creativity
Affect the Production Process”
Paper: “Process vs. Performance: The Work of Creating Theatre in a Results Driven Realm.”
Paper: “The Company You Keep: Engendering Ensemble With A Diva In The Crowd”
Paper: “Letting Go of the Luddite; Adapting Our Craft in a Technology Obsessed Culture”
Paper: “Splintered and a Great Silence: The Production of Return to the Upright Position by Caridad Svich”
RELATED THEATRE EXPERIENCE
Advertising Associate
PR Director
Literary Intern
Literary Intern
Theatre Communications Group (TCG), NYC
Horizons Theatre, Washington, DC
American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA
Studio Theatre, Washington, DC
2006-2007
2002-2003
2000-2001
Summer, 2000
PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS
Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA)
National Alliance of Acting Teachers
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC)
Theatre Communications Group (TCG)
Actors’ Center, Washington, DC
AWARDS AND HONORS
Faculty Supplemental Grant
Open Travel Grant
Graduate Assistantship
Graduate Travel Grant
University of Mary Washington
University of Mary Washington
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University
2010-2019
2009
2008-2009
2008
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
University of Mary Washington University
Freshman Seminar Committee
Chair, Working Group for Arts and Literature General Education Curriculum Revision
University Faculty Affairs Committee
Departmental Assessment Coordinator, Department of Theatre and Dance
Major Advisor, Department of Theatre and Dance
First-year Advisor, College of Arts and Sciences
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Virginia Commonwealth University
Orientation Advisor
Course Scheduling and Enrollment Assistant, Department of Theatre
Mid-America Theatre Conference: Co-Chair Practice/Production Symposium, 2013-15
DC Metro Theater Arts: Staff Writer
Helen Hayes Awards: Reviewer
Virginia High School League: Commonwealth District Theatre Festival: Reviewer
Evergreen District One-Act Play Festival: Reviewer
Senior Booster Scholarship Program, Fairfax High School: Reviewer
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2019-2020
2019
2017 - 2018
2013 - present
2011 - present
2011 - present
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2009
2009
2013 - 2015
2010 - 2015, 2018 - present