MISSION: To inspire collaboration under a collective vision serving the material, the audience, and artists involved. I'm drawn to stories that illuminate hope in darkness. I direct musical, nonmusical, and devised/generative works for youth and adults.
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DIRECTOR SELECTED CREDITS:
SHELTERED at Fair Play Festival OLIVER! at Village Theater Kidstage BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Village Theater Kidstage OPERA SHOWCASE at Seattle Opera Youth HEAR MY VOICE at Taproot Isaac Studio GODSPELL at ELON University JAKES WOMEN at ELON University THE LAST FIVE YEARS at The Black Box THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER at Hangar Theater LAB SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER at Yeager Hall MACBETH in SHAKES LOVERS at Stone Soup Theater HEAR MY SONG at foundry10 WILLY WONKA...FACTORY at Salmon Bay COME INTO THE GARDEN MAUDE at The Black Box THE GREAT DIVORCE at Calvary The Hill 8 1/2 MINUTES at foundry10 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SELECTIONS: ASSASSINS dir. Sara Pace at The Black Box Theater BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK dir. Chantal P. at Hangar Theater GOODNIGHT MOON dir. Chantal Pavageaux at Hangar Theater OTHER RELATED SELECTIONS: CHILDREN OF EDEN stage manager Elon Faculty's Production 17th OF JULY fight choreographer Black Box, NC LITTLE WOMEN fight choreographer STEPPING STONES playwright/director Eclectic Theater 81/2 MINUTES playwright/director foundry10 3 DEVISED PLAYS playwright/director Village Theater Kidstage 
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BIO: It started when I was studying leadership while earning my BFA in Music Theater at Elon University. By the time I graduated I had directed five large scale productions on the MainStage, revived the student-works movement at school, adapted and directed a new play with the human rights course and theater department, taken the directing and design majors curriculum, wrote my senior thesis on directing and making your own work, and booked a gig as an assistant director to a professional residency theater company in upstate NY where they'd let me direct my own works for the EMC company members. Directing felt like a natural fit. It was the position where I could use all of my interests/experience including my work as a performer, teacher, stage manager, playwright/adaptor, fight choreographer, scenic designer and dramaturg.
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I use a range of acting techniques including Viewpoints, Meisner, Stanislavski, Utah Hagen, and Chekhov to communicate with actors of all ages. I devise work, write material, and stage heightened text, contemporary drama, comedies, musicals, movement, and unarmed/broadsword/rapier fights. I serve the text.
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GALLERY SELECTIONS
SHELTERED: confessions of a sheltered kid. at the Fair Play Festival
OLIVER! at Village Theater Teen Select production
GODSPELL at Elon MainStage
THE LAST FIVE YEARS at The Black Box Theater
JAKE'S WOMEN at Elon MainStage
SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER at Yeager Hall
GOODNIGHT MOON at Hangar Theater
THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER at Hangar Theater LAB Co.
DIRECTING YOUTH, GALLERY SELECTIONS
NEW MUSICALS, 8 1/2 minutes and Through the Glass
HEAR MY VOICE at Taproot Isaac Studio
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SEATTLE OPERA Stage Director, for youth ages 3-18
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SHAKESPEARE FOR GIRLS AND HEAR MY SONG CABARET, director with foundry10
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