Directing

Austen's Pride at The 5th Avenue Theater, photo: Jeff Carpenter

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.

ARTISTIC DIRECTING:
ENROOT Theatre Project in partnership with Taproot Theater
ONE ACT AT A TIME for foundry10/Penguin Productions
DIRECTOR SELECTED CREDITS:
OLIVER! at Village Theater Kidstage
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST at Village Theater Kidstage
HEAR MY VOICE at Taproot Isaac Studio
GODSPELL at The Black Box Theater
JAKES WOMEN at The Black Box Theater
THE LAST FIVE YEARS at The Black Box Theater
THE DAY IT RAINED FOREVER at Hangar Theater Lab Company
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 Theater
COME INTO THE GARDEN MAUDE at The Black Box Theater
THE GREAT DIVORCE at Calvary The Hill
8 1/2 MINUTES at foundry10
SHELTERED at Fair Play Festival
OPERA SHOWCASE at Seattle Opera Youth

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: My relationship with directing 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.

I use a range of acting techniques including Viewpoints, Meisner, Stanislavski, Utah Hagen, and Chekhov to communicate with actors of all ages. I seek to create a culture where all voices are heard and we can get behind a common vision of how to bring the text to life. I'm passionate about collaboration and getting out of the way of the text and others' artistry. I direct classical to contemporary theater and musicals. I devise work, write material, and stage heightened text, contemporary drama, comedies, musicals, movement, and unarmed/broadsword/rapier fights. I try to find a measure of hope in every story.