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Current ongoing roles:• Consulting Intimacy Director - The Mercury Store | New York City • Resident Intimacy Director - Georgia State University School of Film, Media, and Theatre | AtlantaIntimacy Workshop Leader for teens, college students, and educators including:• Boundaries, Bodily Autonomy, and Culture Competence in Theatre - explores the basics of intimacy direction and the importance of students having agency in the classroom and rehearsal hall.• Boundaries and Consent for Students - explores boundary practices, consent, place holders, levels of touch, closure and self advocacy• The Basics of Boundaries and Consent for Educators- an exploration of the five pillars of intimacy direction as developed by IDC (Communication, Consent, Context, Choreography, Closure) and how these 5 Cs can build a safer, more open, creative, and collaborative space.Theatrical credits include: Trading Places (Alliance Theatre), Spring Awakening (Oglethorpe University), Dead Man's Cell Phone (Fells Point Corner Theatre), Sunset Baby (Actor's Express), She Kills Monsters (Georgia State University), Twelfth Night (Her Majesty and Sons), The Legend of Georgia McBride (Woodstock Arts Theatre)Intimacy Training: • Decolonization & Care in Intimacy Choreography w/Lauren Kielce DeLeon | Intimacy Directors & Coordinators• Race & Choreography w/ Kaja Dunn | Theatrical Intimacy Education• Trauma Informed Practices w/Chelsea Pace | Theatrical Intimacy Education• Intimacy Coordination w/Chelsea Pace | Theatrical Intimacy Education• Best Practices w/Hannah Williams | Theatrical Intimacy Education• Nine-Day Intimacy Choreographers Intensive w/ Jessica Steinrock, Alicia Rodis, Tonia Sina | Intimacy Directors International at O’Neill Center• Introduction to Gender & Sexuality | Intimacy Professionals AssociationAdditional Training in Mental Health, Anti-Racism, EDI, Allyship Advocacy, Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation, Anti-(sexual) harassment. Full list available upon request.

Regional Theatre Directing credits include: • Every Brilliant Thing (Woodstock Arts Theatre), • Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, As You Like It (Baltimore Shakespeare Theatre)• Cafe (Source Theatre at The National Theatre)• Really Big Expectations (Axis Theatre)• The Insect Play (Mongrel Theatre)• Mamet One-Acts, Sick & Twisted Christmas (Planet Earth Multi-Cultural Theatre)New York Theatre credits include:• Danny (White Rabbit Theatre)• The Yellow Wallpaper (Drama League New Directors/New Works)• Bus 247, Self-Generated Friction (The Goldberg Theatre, Tisch)• Savoring the Brew (The Riant Theater Festival)Academic Theatre credits include productions at Illinois Wesleyan University, Oglethorpe University, University of Illinois Champaign Urbana, Alliance Theatre, Roland Park Country School, Center Stage, and Baltimore Shakespeare Festival.

• Beginning Acting, Advanced Acting, Directing, Introduction to Theatre• Developed the 508 compliant syllabus, course outline, online quizzes, assignments, and related curriculum utilizing a fully online asynchronous platform.• Taught a diverse population of traditional and returning students with a vast variety of backgrounds and experiences, in online classes of up to 150 learners.• Used a wide range of instructional methods to uphold each student’s success.• Consistently garnered excellent performance evaluations.