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Orlando, Florida, United States

• Collaborated with a team of immersive experience designers and Imagineers to develop a world-first, award-winning 2-day narrative immersive Star Wars experience, with an original storyline and new canon characters.• Organized groups of up to 100 passengers in bespoke improvised games and scenes, responding to guest prompts and motivating guest action and interaction.• Improvised more than 1000 hours of new Star Wars content for 40,000+ guests. • Contributed story structure during development of “The Heist,” the highest-rated single show experience in Disney’s history. • Starcruiser is the highest-rated live experience Disney has ever created,- scoring 89% on guest satisfaction ratings, - 10% higher than the next highest offering• Achieved avg. 95% guest satisfaction ratings (for guests that played with me on my storyline) with a peak score of 98% - the highest of any of the Starcruiser cast• 22 total internal Recognitions for superior performance during 24 months of employment

Greater New York City Area

• Executive Produced, acted in, and wrote the screenplay for “Hunter,” a 93-minute feature film currently on streaming platforms. • Fundraised mid-tier SAG ULB budget, 3X more than initial budget estimation called for. Wrote business plan, managed SEC filings, created LLCs, and collected funds from accredited investors• Negotiated award-winning actor Nick Searcy’s involvement in the film• Coordinated and oversaw post-production - including editing, color correction, SFX, sound and music within our contingency funding thresholds. • Collaborated on casting decisions, and hiring process of 150+ individual contributors.• Created and ran viral marketing campaign with innovative alternate-reality-game theme, garnering over 20,000+ views on a 1k budget.• Film garnered recommendation from Richard Roeper on (Good Morning America) Feb, 2019• Awards Won: Best Horror Feature: Manhattan Film Festival, Best Feature Film: Freakshow Horror Film Fest Orlando, Nominee Best Feature: Chicago Horror Film Fest

Orlando, Florida, United States

Led first exposure of Classical Acting techniques from the British tradition to middle and high school students- including acting theory and practice by Stanislavsky, Laban, Mikhael Chekov & Classical Vocal Training. Students publiclly performed Shakespeare for the first time, as well as live-voice cartoon clips with individually developed character voices.

Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York, Orlando, Fl, London, Uk

Companies include: Theater Wit, Michigan Shakespeare Festival, Muse of Fire Theater, Transcendent Theater Co, Bridge Street Theater, First Folio Theater, ABC Studios, Amazon Studios, Netflix Studios• Appearances on major streaming outlets (Netflix, Amazon, PSN, Google Play)• Work on AAA video game franchises (Witcher 3, Payday 3, Valve Productions)• 35 theatrical pProductions• 50 released aaudiobooks / 1000+ hours of recorded eLearning content• For specifics, please request theatrical performance resumes

New York, United States

Taught Shakespeare to 5th graders in economically depressed parts of Brooklyn, most of whom had no other educational arts exposure. After 6 months in the program, students’ reading and writing test scores were , on avg. 10% higher than peers not enrolled..

New York, New York, United States

Led multi-week leadership and public speaking classes to help 1st line supervisors in Mastercard move towards promotion and advancement. Provided individual coaching and guidance that allowed leaders to address and resolve real-world communications challenges. 50%+ of my students moved to a higher position within 1 year.

New York, Ny

Provided individual public speaking and communications coaching to consultants at McKinsey. Taught story structure for business, flexibility and creativity in communications styles, and performance anxiety reduction techniques.

Greater Chicago Area

Facilitated Sexual Assault Prevention programs for the US Navy at Great Lakes Naval Base. After our 2-person facilitated discussions and individually taught classes, anonymously reported instances of sexual assault at the base dropped by 12%, and roughly 30% more reports were made non-anonymously for the trailing 3 months.

Greater Chicago Area

Worked as a role-player to facilitate live-action leadership simulations for large-scale utility and power companies. Provided feedback and scoring assessments determining which candidates moved into front-line leadership positions.

M.F.A., Theatre/Theater

Classical Theater Production in the British tradition

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Student Theater, Musical Theater Certificate Program, Creative Writing for the Media Program