Ph.D. in Theatre from University of Oregon; M.A. in Classical Acting from The Central School of Speech and Drama, London; B.A. in Theatre and English from University of Oregon.

Career Faculty?

I am a Career Faculty in the Department of Theatre Arts. In different words: my focus is teaching. This includes courses or classroom instruction as well as instruction-related activities.

Courses

Introduction to Acting, Acting Scene Study, Acting Auditions, Advanced Acting (Voice and Dialect), FIG: Speak for Yourself!, Introduction to Theatre Arts, Dramaturgy, Majors Seminar, Play Direction, Theatre and Culture: 20-21st c. American Theatre-Makers

Instruction-Related Activities

Acting Series GE Advisor, TA KCACTF Liaison (Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival), Theatre in London Faculty

Teaching Philosophy & Pedagogical Approaches

As a teacher, I try to bring an awareness of unique life experiences into all student encounters. I ask myself every day how I can offer tools to help students become accountable risk-takers, creative problem-solvers, and critically-minded collaborators. As much as possible, I teach to the individual by valuing lived experiences of identity that each student will bring into the embodied process of learning. As a theatre maker, I value experiential learning as well -- this is how we keep developing our craft!

Recent Productions

  Director, University Theatre at UO

• The Phantom Tollbooth by Susan Nanus, based on the book by Norton Juster, Hope Theatre (2023)
• The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, Hope Theatre (2023)
• Hay Fever by Noël Coward, Robinson Theatre (2022)
• Tartuffe by Moliere, adapted by Constance Congdon from a literal prose translation by Virginia Scott, Robinson Theatre (2019)
• New Voices 2019: Just a Shack in the Woods by Connor French & Smudge by Meg Schenk, Hope Theatre (2019)
• Picnic by William Inge, Hope Theatre (2018)
• Mr. Burns: a post-electric play by Anne Washburn, Hope Theatre (2017)

  Dialect Coach

• Colonialism is Terrible, but Pho is Delicious, by Dustin H. Chinn, directed by Oanh Nguyen, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene (2023)
• Once, book by Enda Walsh, Music & Lyrics by Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová, directed by John Schmor, Robinson Theatre, UO (2022)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, adapted and directed by John Schmor, Robinson Theatre, UO (2021)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens, directed by John Schmor, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene (2020)
• Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon, directed by Elizabeth Helman, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene (2018)