DIRECTOR
| Play | Playwright | Theatre | |
| Holmes and Watson | Jeffrey Hatcher | Northern Arizona University | |
| White Rabbit Red Rabbit # | Nassim Soleimanpour | Verge Theater with Boat Rocker Entertainment & Aurora Nova Productions | |
| Orlando | Sarah Ruhl | Northern Arizona University | |
| A Virtual Cabaret # | Johnson, Krutainis, Inocalla | Verge Theatre | |
| Mosquitoes+ | Lucy Kirkwood | Steep Theatre | |
| The Wolves+ | Sarah DeLappe | Actors Bridge Ensemble | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Nashville Shakespeare Festival | |
| The Flick+ | Annie Baker | Verge Theatre | |
| Sea Wall | Simon Stephens | Oz Arts Nashville | |
| The Whale+ | Sam Hunter | Verge Theatre | |
| The Amish Project+ | Jessica Dickey | Belmont/Actor's Bridge Ensemble | |
| Las Meninas | Lynn Nottage | Belmont University | |
| Bronte | Polly Teale | Promethean Theatre Ensemble | |
| The Seagull+ | Hampton/Chekhov | Eclectic Theatre | |
| The Nina Variations | Steven Dietz | Verge Theatre Company | |
| Amazons and Their Men | Jordan Harrison | Belmont University | |
| Love & Understanding | Joe Penhall | Redtwist Theatre | |
| Cloud Nine | Caryl Churchill | Roosevelt University | |
| Rabbit Hole | David Lindsay-Abaire | Dominican University | |
| Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | Roosevelt University | |
| Enola | Al Smith | side project theatre co. | |
| The Life & the Times of Tulsa Lovechild | Greg Owens | Roosevelt University | |
| The Ghost Is Here | Kobo Abe | Vitalist Theatre | |
| Animals Out of Paper | Rajiv Joseph | Steppenwolf Garage | |
| Merge | Naomi Brodkin | Regina Taylor Project/NU | |
| Crude | Erin Hays | Regina Taylor Project/NU | |
| Orlando | Sarah Ruhl | Northwestern University | |
| Artist Descending a Staircase | Tom Stoppard | Northwestern University | |
| Professions for Women | Virginia Woolf | Bailiwick Repertory | |
| The Bay at Nice | David Hare | Vitalist Theatre | |
| 365: Suzan-Lori Parks Festival | Suzan-Lori Parks | Vitalist Theatre | |
| King of the Road | Greg Hardigan | Around the Coyote Festival | |
| Icarus | Edwin Sanchez | Knox College Studio Theatre |
(#) Indicates Co-Direction or Co-Artistic Production
(+) Indicates nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award (Chicago) or First Night (Nashville)
Love & Understanding. Redtwist Theatre, 2014.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
| Passage to India | Martin Sherman | Vitalist Theatre |
| Mother Courage and Her Children (2007 After Dark Award: Best Direction) | Hare/Bertolt Brecht | Vitalist Theatre |
| Anna Karenina | Helen Edmundson | Vitalist Theatre |
STAGED READINGS/DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS - DIRECTOR
| The Basset Table | Jaclynn Jutting | TN Playwrights' Studio |
| Simply Bess | Bianca Sams | Nashville Rep |
| The Iroquois | Chris Hodak | Raven Theatre |
| The Best of All Possible Worlds | Alice Austen | Steep Theatre |
| Bastard | Anthony Werner | Steep Theatre |
| MFA Playwriting Showcase (2012 - 2014) | Various playwrights | Northwestern University |
| H.M. Patient | Vanda | Pride Film and Plays |
| Simulacrum | Greg Hundemer | Northwestern University |
| An Enemy of the People | Arthur Miller | Northwestern University |
| The Painter | Anthony Werner | Master Clash |
| Women on the Edge: Four plays | Euripides | Greasy Joan & Co. |
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
| Sex with Strangers (Dir. Jessica Thebus) | Laura Eason | Steppenwolf Theatre |
| Candide (Dir. Mary Zimmerman) | Zimmerman/Bernstein | Goodman Theatre |
| The Sins of Sor Juana (Dir. Henry Godinez) | Karen Zacarias | Goodman Theatre |
| Up (Dir. Anna D. Shapiro) | Bridget Carpenter | Steppenwolf Theatre |
| King Lear (Dir. Liz Carlin-Metz)
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William Shakespeare | Vitalist Theatre |
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, Associate member.Northern Arizona University, Assistant Professor. Fall 2022 - present.
Lipscomb University LIFE program, Adjunct Professor. Spring & Summer, 2022.
Nashville Public Library Foundation, Adult Literacy Conference Producer. March & October 2022.
Middle Tennessee State University, Visiting Lecturer. 2020-2021.
Vanderbilt University, Fred Coe Artist-in-Residence. Spring 2020.
Roosevelt University, Adjunct Professor. Fall 2019.
Belmont University, Assistant Professor. Fall 2014 - May 2019.
Vitalist Theatre, Associate Artistic Director. Chicago 2003 - 2014.
Dominican University, Adjunct Professor. Winter 2011 – May 2014.
Executive Service Corps., Institutional Relations/Grantwriter. January 2012 – July 2014.
Columbia College of Chicago, Adjunct Professor. Fall 2012.
Northwestern University, Lecturer. Winter 2011
Northwestern University, Teaching Assistantship. January 2009 - June 2010.
Steppenwolf Theatre, Post-Show Discussions. Summer 2009 & Winter 2011.
Environmental Law & Policy Center, Special Assistant to Director. Chicago, IL 5/02 – 9/08
Environment 2004 (PAC), Stage Manager-Kick-off. Chicago, February 2004.
EDUCATION, PUBLICATIONS & AWARDS
2024 Inclusive Leadership Certificate Program: Academic Impressions.2023 Nashville Scene Best of Nashville: White Rabbit Red Rabbit Verge Theater.
Inclusive Teach for Equitable Learning. ACUE Micro-credential certificate. April 2023.
Poetics: RaceB4Race Symposium. Arizona State University, 2023.
Tennessee Playwrights' Studio Fellow, 2022.
“Teaching the Young Director to Cast Inclusively” Theatre Topics (November 2020).
First Night Award 2019 - Outstanding Director of a Play: The Flick Verge Theater & The Wolves Actors Bridge Ensemble.
First Night Award 2019 - Best Production: The Wolves . Best Ensemble: The Wolves. Best Supporting Actress: The Wolves.
First Night Awards 2018 - Outstanding Director of a Play: Amish Project. Belmont/Actors Bridge Ensemble.
Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival - Excellence in Direction: Amish Project. 2018.
Claire Rosen & Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artist, Semifinalist. 2014.
Northwestern University, MFA Directing Program. 2013.
Directors’ Lab – Chicago. Summer, 2008.
Knox College: B.A. Theatre & English – Writing double major. Cum Laude. 2000.
International Education Council: London, England. Fall 1999. Course Work: Shakespearean history, politics, theatre & literature criticism and documentary filmmaking.
Workshops: ATHE (2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017); Radically Reimaging Our Institutions, Fatphobia in Casting, Hetero & Cis-normativity in Regional Theater, Accessibility Beyond Covid-19 (Verge Theater, 2020-21); Equity in Arts Istitutions Workshop, 2019; 2019 Racial Equity in Arts Leadership Conference (Vanderbilt University); Moment Work, Tectonic Theater Project; Intimacy Directors International; Viewpoints/Suzuki with SITI; Suzuki with Jeremy Sher, Lecoq with Dodi DiSanto and John Sherman; Michael Chekov movement training with Dawn Arnold, Moving Dock; Playwriting Workshops with Robert Falls, Rebecca Gilman, Bruce Norris & Laura Eason.