Degrees

M.F.A., Trinity Rep Conservatory/Rhode Island College
A.B., Wheaton College, 97

Main Interests

Teaching, directing and helping my students discover their artistic voices in whatever creative venue that applies. Also connecting with disciplines outside of the arts to encourage conversation through the theatre.

Research Interests

Politically and socially relevant theatre, how it can be used on college campuses to help diversity. Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed.

Teaching Interests

Exploring how contemporary playwrights have dealt with controversial issues, such as race, sexuality, religion, and class and discovering how theatre can be used as a vehicle to unite communities and encourage dialogue.

I also love teaching beginning acting where we focus on discovering and freeing the actor's voice, body and spirit.

Other Interests

Wheaton College Alumna class of '97

Creative Works

Acted in a staged reading of Charlotte Meehan's Real Realism, June 2011, Dixon Place Theatre, NYC

Productions

Directed Adam Bock's Swimming in the Shallows, Paula Vogel's How I Learned To Drive and The Long Christmas Ride Home, Sophocles' Antigone, Tony Kushner's Angels In America, Part One Millennium Approaches, Charlotte Meehan's Spellsong, Anna Deavere Smith's House Arrest, the musical A Chorus Line.

Directed a staged reading of Charlotte Meehan's Looking For George with the Lynx Theatre in NYC.

Performed in Lorca's The House Of Bernarda Alba at the Providence Black Rep Company and the world premiere of Charlotte Meehan's Sweet Disaster at the Perishable Theatre Company in Providence, RI.