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Courses Taught: Graduate level Special Topics Seminar: Stage Management for New Plays and Devised Works. This course explored the role of the stage manager as collaborator in new play and devised performance processes, focusing on collaborative structures in contemporary performance making, practices of collective worldbuilding, and the dynamic space that managers occupy in the creation of new works. Particular focus was given to the notion of hierarchical theatre-making, tools for managing ever-changing performances, and dramaturgical approaches to management.

Courses taught: Tools for Theatre-Making: Intro to Theatre Technology (Lecture & Lab)Digital Performance Laboratory (Lecture & Lab)Advanced Practicum in Production ManagementAdvanced Practicum in Stage ManagementGuest Lectures and Workshops in Lighting, Stage Management, Devised Performance, and Contemporary Performance. Manage budgets, production timelines, calendars, artistic and technical communication, labor and staffing for all departmental productions and student honors projects at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance; oversee lighting for department productions; supervise technical staff. Advise and mentor all Student Stage Managers and Assistant Stage Managers for Department Productions. ACADEMIC SERVICE Williams College Management Coalition Working Group (Founder), Play Reading Series, Front of House & Operations Staff Restructuring Working Group, Department of Theatre New Curriculum Development Committee, “Living in the Building” Committee, Production Program Analysis Working Group, Department of Theatre Season Planning Committee, Search Committees: Associate Professor of Theatre, Patron & Visiting Artist Services Manager, Department of Dance Production Manager, Theatre Technician, Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre. Theatre Department Representative: First Days.

Oversee implementation of technical and design elements for theatre, multi-media, dance, and special events. Create and maintain all production budgets and schedules for theatre and multimedia events, film shoots, screenings, and other performances; draft and negotiate contracts with venues as well as design, technical, web and production staff; manage communications with technical artists and staff; interview, hire and manage production crew; manage performer and public safety during events; contract rentals of necessary materials and equipment, including a/v equipment, lighting packages, props, and set construction materials; coordinate searches and orchestrate freelance hiring for technical, production, design, media, web design and operations support staff; coordinate film shoots for online projects, including coordinating site specific shoots and obtaining necessary permits and permissions; maintain inventories of sets, props, costumes and A/V equipment; manage acquisition of new equipment and rentals.Ongoing and Recent Projects include work with Michelle Ellsworth (international), Andrew Schneider (international), American Realness Festival (NYC), Pig Iron Theatre Company (Philadelphia), and MoMA (NYC).

Manage daily schedules and communications with artists, directors, design teams, producers and venues; run daily rehearsals and performances/events; act as onsite venue manager; supervise crew; prepare daily reports, and manage physical properties.Includes projects at Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA), Joes Pub (NYC), Spoleto USA (Charleston, SC), Long Wharf Theater (New Haven, CT), Philadelphia Theatre Company, CenterStage (Baltimore, MD), and the Bard College Spiegeltent Cabaret (New York/Hudson Valley, with Alan Cumming, Martha Wainwright, Kate Pierson, Taylor Mac, Steven Merritt, and Justin Vivian Bond)

Courses taught: Introduction to Theatre Production, Stage Management Seminar. Guest Lecturer, Stage Management Practicum In collaboration with Production Manager, manage four mainstage productions and up to 19 studio productions per season in five small venues for Tisch Undergraduate Drama; manage process and mentor students through auditions, pre-production, rehearsal, build, load in and focus, production and strike. Implement new production guidelines and procedures for communication amongst internal and external Studios in Tisch Drama, act as venue liaison for student groups and external studio productions.

Work closely with administrative and technical staff to manage production schedule, communications, and personnel for local NYC and internationally touring theater productions; oversee installation, production and breakdown of touring shows; oversee and manage technical and production crew and theater staff in NYC and abroad; draft scenic plans; prepare drawings for shop bids; draft rigging and sound plots; source materials and equipment upgrades; maintain set, props and A/V budgets; oversee rentals and purchases of new equipment; act as technical production liaison for tour negotiation, planning, and production periods; prepare technical riders; organize shipping and manage customs for international tours; provide quotes and prepare project budgets; coordinate annual benefits and other special events; oversee troubleshooting and technical improvements/upgrades; coordinate rentals, sublets and residencies of NYC performance space The Performing Garage; coordinate facility improvements; maintain, manage and inventory technical equipment and company storage. Productions and tours include: Hamlet (Edinburgh International Festival)
Cry, Trojans! (The Performing Garage, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Singapore International Festival of the Arts, St Ann’s Warehouse, Kaai Theater in Brussels)
Early Shaker Spirituals (The Performing Garage, REDCAT in Los Angeles, Z Space in San Francisco, St Ann’s Warehouse, DeSingel Theater in Antwerp, Spiral Hall, Sound Live Tokyo) Opening Ceremony for the new Whitney Museum (NYC)The Room (The Performing Garage)