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New York, United States

• Regularly write critical Responses to off-off Broadway/Downtown Theater and Dance.
• Track broad artistic trends across the New York art scene.
• Summarize performance history and context for both a general and specialist audience.
• Work with an editor to make changes and corrections for the piece.
• This work has been highlighted by New Yorker theater critic Helen Shaw.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Helped pilot a re-launch the Washington DC branch of this summer enrichment program for high school students.
• Invited to work the following summer for the New York Program.
• Assisted celebrated lead instructors, including the esteemed columnist Mary C. Curtis, in teaching two-week seminars for students.
• Provided one-on-one feedback with aspiring journalists about their writing.
• Held office hours for students, providing conceptual and editorial input to on diverse projects, ranging from slam poetry to Novels.
• Provided critical early support for raising seniors drafting their college essays.

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

• Created and taught series of three/four-day seminars across a broad spectrum of topics.
• Guided students through a weeklong final creative project.
• Classes included: “Failure: Putting Radical Methods to Madness,” “Radical Softness in Performance,” “Contemporary Punk Performance.”
• Facilitated discussions during a staff-curated program of films.

San Francisco, California, United States

Santa Cruz, California

• Supported the professor in the execution of curriculum.
• Led discussion section with class sizes ranging from 10-20 students.
• Graded both creative assignment and academic writing/tests.
• Held weekly office hours for students.
• Delivered guest lectures to class sizes ranging from 60 to 300 students.
• Courses Assisted on: Shakespeare4Every1 (professor: Philippa Kelly), Intro to Playwriting, (professor: Jim Bierman), Walt Disney (Professor: Kirsten Brandt), Theater History: Renaissance to the Modern Age (Professor.

Orinda, California

• Assisted resident Dramaturg Philippa Kelly in the research and support of a variety of different productions of the course of multiples seasons.
• Delivered public lectures contextualizing and coloring in the dramatic landscape of the plays being presented.
• Production Credits include: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (Director: Lisa Portes), The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam (Director: John Moscone).

Oakland, California

• Collaborated with Philippa Kelly to create and launch a program with the that used a behind-the-scenes look at two different productions of William Shakespeare’s Othello to stress the contemporary resonance of his work.
• Executed the Curriculum within Oakland Public Schools
• Drafted grant successful grant proposals to fund the project.

• Founded a theater company for young artists that sought to explore and recontextualize classic work.
• Directed and performed in all of the productions.
• Marketed and promoted the shows for a festival audience.
• Productions include: Never mind the Bollocks, Here’s a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Love Letters, The Sensational Sans Sullivan Radio Hour.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Dramaturgy And Dramatic Criticism

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Theater Arts- Dramaturgy

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Theatre/Theater And History

Activities and Societies: UC Santa Cruz Men's Ultimate Team

Certificate, Theatre/Theater