Over 15 years of experience teaching college, secondary & primary school aged students, with specialties in actor training, Shakespeare, devising, movement for actors, expressive performance for dancers, and directing.
For a complete CV with list of commissions, exhibitions, and choreography hires, click below.
Burning Coal Theatre
For this professional non-profit theatre company in Raleigh, NC, taught alongside previous education director Ian Finley for ShakeScenes and WillPower programs in primary and secondary schools around central North Carolina.
Hope College
As a visiting artist taught freshman seminar classes in performance, and directed six student performers in collaboration with artist/professor Billy Mayer to create performance installation, Skulls & Cars, in conversation with sculpture and architecture in his sabbatical art show, entitled 440.
Raleigh Little Theatre
From 2009 - 2014 for the award winning education program at this WPA established community theatre, taught multiple classes per year to middle school and high school students on Shakespeare, movement for performance, or devising practices.
Holland High School
A contract hire by Holland High School for Holland Public School District, in Michigan to run the after school theatre program during fall/winter semester 2019. Taught students Shakespeare scoring and vocal performance, basic stage acting skills, and gendered body performance techniques, and worked with a sub-contracted choreographer to teach 1920’s social dance hybrid contemporary dance. Produced A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in a speakeasy in the 1920’s with live jazz, blues & Charleston dancing fairies.
James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance
Visiting Artist in 2017 and previously as a guest teacher in 2009
Hired to choreograph for their resident repertory dance company’s annual concert, and teach classes in physical theatre, dance improv, professional development for the alternative performer, and devising. And in London on their study abroad program to teach character development for dancers.
Upward Bound
Summer Elective Teacher / Telling Our Stories for Performance, Summer 2019
Teaching public speaking and presentation skills through developing personal narrative monologues, for For Upward Bound / Trio at Hope College, a pre-college prep program. Goals also include developing confidence, range of motion, body awareness, and teamwork skills