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Coach high school students 1:1, developing their passions and sense of purpose through ambitious entrepreneurial projects.

Private tutor for junior high and high school students. Tutored everything from AP courses to college essay-writing, with an emphasis on SAT/ACT exam prep.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Worked closely with Artistic staff and guest artists on everything from casting and rehearsals to season planning, line producing, giving curtain speeches and leading talkbacks.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Directing Observer for the City Theatre's 2016-2017 Season.

Pittsburgh, PA

Substitute Teacher for all subjects and grade levels, from Pre-K to 12th Grade for the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Freelance work between theatre contracts.

Pittsburgh, PA

ASM for THE HUMANSdir. Pamela Berlin, PSM Fred NoelSeptember - December 2017ASM for THE GLASS MENAGERIEdir. Pamela Berlin, PSM Fred NoelSeptember - November 2014ASM for THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANKdir. Pamela Berlin, PSM Fred NoelSeptember - October 2015Coach and Judge for the Shakespeare Monologue & Scene ContestJanuary - February of 2015 and 2016Visited.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Director for LUNGS, by Duncan MacmillanDirector for MOTHER LODEco-dir. Virginia Wall GruenertAssistant Director for SCARED OF SARAHdir. Ingrid Sonnichsen

Greater New York City Area

PSM and Lighting Designer for INSOMNIA: A NEW MUSICAL, music and lyrics by Charles Bloom, book by Theodore Wolfdir. Ovi Vargas

Greater New York City Area

PSM for THE FLYING DOCTOR BY MOLIÈRE (OVER AND OVER AND OVER), an original, musical adaptation.dir. Michael Doliner

Greater Pittsburgh Area

PA for THE LAST MATCHdir. Tracy Bridgen, PSM Taylor Meszaros

Greater New York City Area

Director for 100 AKER WOOD, a new play by Theodore Wolf

Houghton, MI

PSM for IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, the Rossini Opera.

Pittsburgh, PA

TAMARA, dir. John Shepard. PSM Caitlin Roper.As the only ASM on this sprawling immersive play, staged across three floors of Rodef Shalom congregation in Oakland and named Best Play of 2014 by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Spencer oversaw the tracking and placement of over two hundred props and costume pieces.

Cornell University

Directed MACBETH, THE TEMPEST, and the original piece SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS: ADAPTED. Produced OTHELLO AND THE COMEDY OF ERRORS: A PASTICHE OF WORKS, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, A WINTER'S TALE: A Staged Reading, and TWELFTH NIGHT: A Staged Reading.

Ithaca, NY

Directed Shakespeare's TITUS ANDRONICUS for the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts' 25th Anniversary Season. The project was cast in Spring of 2013, and the cast participated in a special Fall 2013 Advanced Acting course, Shakespearean Performance, led by Professor Bruce Levitt, before entering rehearsals over Winter Break for the full production in.

Cornell University

Over-the-phone Alumni Relations and Fundraising.

Ithaca, NY

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and OTHELLO, dir. Stephen Ponton. Outdoor Shakespeare at a stage built in the Cornell Plantations.In addition to Assistant Directing the productions, Spencer acted as House Manager, overseeing a team of volunteer ushers and box office workers, selling tickets and managing outdoor audiences consisting up to six hundred people.

Ithaca, New York Area

Directed BARE: A POP OPERA, a modern, musical adaptation of Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET that centers on the relationship between two closeted gay students at a Catholic boarding school.

Ithaca, New York Area

Assistant Director for NEXT TO NORMAL, dir. Tracy Brigden, starring Andréa Burns and Chris Hoch.AD for HOW I BECAME A PIRATE, Samuel Beckett's HAPPY DAYS, and a Workshop Reading of THE EMPTY OCEAN. Directed Steve Yockey's "Kiss and Tell" for the Lab Company.

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Directing

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Theatre

Activities and Societies: Cornell Shakespeare Troupe, Risley Theatre, Melodramatics Theatre Company, Quill & Dagger