Teaching/Organizing/Directing
Physical Storytelling Workshop
• Currently in Session, Classes
International Festival of Making Theater (Athens, Greece)
Guest Teacher
• Performed Blondie of Arabia and taught
a Physical Storytelling Workshop
Gearilla! a Street Theater Workshop (Brooklyn, NY)
Instructor
• Teaches ensemble movement, Viewpoints, Clowning,
Invisible Theater, Physical forms using changing landscape of Brooklyn waterfront
The Leadership Program (NYC, NY)
Teaching Artist
• Infuses leadership skills into arts practices,
including visual art, set design and theater
Creative Arts Club (Jersey City, NJ)
Acting teacher
• Designed Curriculum of basic Theater and Life skills for
An After school program for young children
Shakespeare Santa Monica Teen Program (Santa Monica, CA)
Director/Instructor for intensive theater training program
• Designed curriculum of physical theater,
speech, stage combat, dance, improvisation, and clowning
• Directed full production of The Comedy of Errors
Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping Gospel Choir (NYC, NY)
Action Leader, Choir Member, Performer
for Political Theater Company
• Appearances in documentary, “What Would Jesus Buy?”
• Work covered by various media, including
the New York Times Magazine, Chicago Tribune and CNN
Young Audiences New York (NYC, NY)
Program Associate for Non-Profit
that Places Teaching Artists in NYC Public Schools
• Head of Bright Light Schools, overseeing 20 schools
• Designed Cultural Excursions for classes with NYC museums
• Managed 18 teaching artists in all arts disciplines
MCC Theater (NYC, NY)
Education and Outreach for Company
of Twenty High School Students
• Associate Director, Uncensored: Urban Youth Redefined in Their Own Words
• Movement Assistant, Youth Company; wrote and researched grants; recruit students; manage office
Benjamin Banneker Elementary School (Brooklyn, NY)
Teacher’s Assistant for Class of 20 First Graders
• Tutor for math, spelling, reading and writing skills
Bread and Puppet Theater Company (Vermont)
Intern for Political Puppet Theater
• Created and performed in short acts for the Upside Down World Circus
Makala Ashraya Kendra (Bangalore, India)
Volunteer Instructor for a Boarding School
for Abused/Abandoned/Runaway Boys
• Designed curriculum of daily activities for fifty impoverished street children
• Taught theater, dance, music, art, leadership skills and English; documented children’s stories
Greenwave (Ranote, Thailand)
Volunteer for International Work Camp
• Conducted English-Teaching Workshop
at educational conference in Songkhla, Thailand
Art Start (NYC, NY)
Intern for Non-Profit Arts Organization for Homeless Children
• Taught theater to teens in homeless shelter
Counterclockwise: Arts in Action
Co-Founder of Activist Arts Club at NYU
• Created, directed, and performed in educational,
interactive, or agit-prop street theater and teach-ins
Education
New York University, Steinhardt School of Education New York
MA, Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities 2005
• Co-Director, puppet designer and builder, Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights
• Team Leader, Where Old Men Meet: A Williamsburg Story Project (an audio walking tour)
• Guest Artist, Julliard production of Fortinbras
• Community-Engaged Theatre Program: Trinity College Dublin
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts New York
BFA, Drama with a minor in Applied Theatre 2003
• Tisch Award for Community Connections
• International Theatre Workshop: Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Appeared in over 35 short films by NYU Film students
• Lead Character and puppet designer, Jean Cocteau’s Eiffel Tower Wedding Party
• Soloist in Richard Armstrong’s new opera House of Words
Spanish, MS Office, Photoshop, Audio Cool, Iweb, IMovie, Garageband