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Sacramento, CA, US

Stockton, CA

• Organize and teach beginning and advanced acting and introduction to theatre as needed.
• Select, conceptualize and direct one or more main-stage theatre productions.
• Create a rehearsal and technical schedule for production.
• Collaborate on the design and implementation of production elements with staff and students, including the set, costumes, lighting, and sound.
• Implement and/or supervise stage management, choreography, and combat.
• Work with other staff and faculty as needed for stage productions.

Sacramento, CA

• Create lesson plans for an intro to theatre class for after school program.
• Direct main stage productions.
• Mentor and guide beginning acting and theatre students.
• Encourage risk taking while fostering a safe and discrimination free environment.

Burlington, VT

• Ensured that the programmatic side of the camp is running efficiently and on schedule.
• Led orientation and registration day activities.
• Emceed opening night orientation meetings, weekly screenings, and all public performances.
• Oversaw the planning and production of final showcases.
• Administered weekly faculty meetings, making sure that teachers have the resources to accomplish their goals.
• Visited classes bi-weekly to assess the quality of instruction.

Burlington, VT

• Planned and implemented the acting curriculum.
• Coordinated the acting and film programs throughout three sessions.
• Cast actors in student films and stage scenes.
• Oversaw production meetings.
• Managed and coordinated teaching assistants
• Directed and composed acting reels.

• Create and direct programs for Six Week Summer Intensive, Teen Meisner Agent Showcase, Voice and Speech Workshops, Accent Reduction Workshops, Acting as a Business catered to ages 6-18.
• Guide physical and vocal warms ups and ensemble/improv games designed to foster creativity and release inhibitions.
• Provide constructive criticism and positive feedback to students.
• Assess students’ strengths and weaknesses to guide actors’ in choice making and awareness while monitoring personal growth.

• Introduce basic concepts of acting, listening and responding, living truthfully under imaginary circumstances, moment before, beat breakdowns, ability to play an objective, tactics/actions. Meisner method.
• Guide actors as how to approach text, create a role, and utilize scene partners.
• Foster a safe and educational classroom environment where students are encouraged to cultivate their artistic development and take risks.

• Implemented comprehensive four-year tiered voice and speech program, primary focus Linklater method.
• Support and advise voice faculty.
• Helm monthly department meetings and bi-annual teacher evaluations.
• Recruit and train new faculty members.
• Serve as voice and dialect coach for all productions.
• Teach students to speak simple thoughts freely and express imagery using heightened text.

• Cultivate and deepen body awareness by introducing physical conditioning and Alexander Technique.
• Sample units: Viewpoints, neutral mask work, Commedia dell’Arte, physicalizing the text.
• Assist students to find the neutral/authentic body.
• Increase physical vocabulary using shape and gesture.
• Foster actors to make physical character choices with the endurance to maintain choices.

• Led acting classes at a highly competitive conservatory style theatre summer camp. Notable teaching artists included Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Adly Guirgis.
• Devised and directed a final acting performance piece at Alvin Ailey Studios.
• Assistant directed the world premier musical, Hamelin, directed and choreographed by Otis Sallid and Victor Maog.

• Created curriculum, led rehearsals, directed and devised performances for middle and high school students, performed at The Public Theatre/Anspacher Theater.
• Coached students in warm ups, Shakespeare scenes, text analysis, and voice and movement classes.
• Worked alongside Janet Zarish (Head of Graduate Acting Program at Tisch, NYU), Ian Hersey (text analysis), and Robert Perillo(voice).

• Created and instructed 10-week acting courses for camera and stage for actinf students ages 6-18.
• Introduced basic acting principles through commercial copy, monologue, scene study, and improv.
• Assessed student progress, development, and retention of exercises.

• Simultaneously managed multiple translation projects. Duties included quotes, coordinating internal and third party resources, creating and managing localization schedules, finalizing quality assurance, and delivery.
• Supervised team of Local Project Managers, Engineers, Desk Top Publishers, and Reviewers.
• Ensured each aspect of the localization process was on schedule and within budget.
• Maintained financial gross margins at or above Lionbridge’s local site targets.

• Instructed beginning acting to undergraduate non-majors, Meisner method scene study and monologue.
• Taught voice to undergraduate non-majors. Kristin Linklater progression and International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Taught Theatre Appreciation and fundamentals of performance to non-majors.
• Conducted all student evaluations, grades, and assessments.

Master Of Fine Arts, Professional Actor Training

Bachelor Of Arts, Theatre