TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS 

• Acting Techniques: Stanislavski, Hagen, Spolin 

• Acting Styles: Musical Theatre

• History: Sondheim, Musical Theatre, Cult Musicals

• Theatre Arts: Directing, New Work Development, Arts Management 

• Professional Development: Audition Techniques, Portfolio and Content Creation

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CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITIONS 

• POINT PARK UNIVERSITY | Pittsburgh, PA (January 2024 - present)

  • Adjunct Faculty

  • Teaching: Junior Musical Theatre Lab - THEA 322, Acting Through Song III - THEA 337, Advanced Topics in Musical Theatre - THEA 409

  • Artistic: Directed Period Piece (2024)

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• STAGEDOOR MANOR | Loch Sheldrake, NY (June 2015 - present)

  • Promoted to Director of Education and Asst. Artistic Director (January 2022)

  • Director-in-Residence and Teaching Artist (June 2015 - December 2021)

  • Internationally acclaimed performing arts training center that has nurtured thousands of students for success in theatre, film, and television for 49 years. Produces more than 30 productions in repertory each summer in eight different theatres. Select alumni include: Robert Downey Jr., Natalie Portman, Bryce Howard, Sebastian Stan, Beanie Feldstein, Adam Pascal, Mandy Moore, Skylar Astin, Jeanine Tesori, and Shaina Taub.

  • Teaching: Master Acting, Musical Theatre Performance, Musical Theatre History, Acting Sondheim, Directing in Musical Theatre, Directing, Directing Studio, Cult Musicals, Audition Techniques. 

  • Artistic: Directed The Laramie Project (2023), Anastasia (2023), Merrily We Roll Along (2023), A Little Night Music (2022), Lizzie (2022), Sondheim On Sondheim (2022), Nine (2021), Legally Blonde (2021), Almost, Maine (2021), Metamorphoses (2020), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom (2020), Twelve Angry Jurors (2020), Blood Brothers (2019), Eurydice (2019), Titanic (2019), Aida (2018), A Christmas Story (2018), Jekyll & Hyde (2018), Jesus Christ Superstar (2017), The Madwoman of Chaillot (2015)

  • Administrative: Led and developed the education department implementing a restructuring in its curriculum focusing on bridging the gap between academic and professional theatre practices for young artists. Administered enrollment for classes registering over 750 students every season providing class advising on a one-on-one basis over the course of three different three-week sessions from June through August. Coordinated and managed the scheduling of over 350 classes, teaching artist assignments, and classroom instructional methods for each summer season.

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• QUANTUM THEATRE | Pittsburgh, PA (October 2021 - present)

  • Teaching Artist

  • Teaching: Instructed youth from diverse backgrounds and ethnic populations through in-school residencies in Pittsburgh Public Schools. These residencies combined theatre techniques, improvisational scene work, devised theatre, and creative exercises to examine themes in the plays in the current season at Quantum Theatre with students.

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EDUCATION 

• THEATRICAL INTIMACY EDUCATION (2023)

  • Best Practices: Kim Shively | Working with Minors: Kim Shively

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• INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA (2011)​​​

  • BA in Theater​ | Directing: Jason Chimonides

             

• THE KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATER FESTIVAL NATIONAL DIRECTING INTENSIVE | THE KENNEDY CENTER (2010)

  • Master Classes: Paula Vogel, David Ives, Libby Appel, Chay Yew, Ruben Polendo, Aaron Posner, Alan Paul, John Dillon