Theatre

I currently teach theatre throughout Berks County through the Yocum Institute of Arts Education in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Much of my teaching is the Neighborhood Bridges program, and I also develop and teach creative drama programs. I also perform with Primary Stages, a company within the Institute that uses professional, adult actors in productions for young audiences.

From 2004-2010, I worked at Touchstone Theatre in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as an Ensemble Member and the Education Coordinator. While there, I created and performed theatre, developed and taught arts-in-education programs, and administrated the arts-in-education programs for the company. Touchstone is an ensemble theatre, which basically means we all work together to create work and run the theatre.

While at Touchstone, I wrote two children’s play, The Talisman: The Fairy Tale Life of Hans Christian Andersen and Tales from the Middle East. I received a grant from the Berks County Community Foundation‘s Support Performing Artists Fund to write another children’s play in 2011; it is called (for now) Faraway Oranges and I’m sending it off to workshops and readings to improve it.

Before that, I also worked with Slant Theatre Project in NYC as a dramaturg for their very first play Nueva Cancion, at the New Harmony Project in Indiana assisting playwright Donna Daley on a new play, and the Barter Theatre in Virginia in their Player Company. The summer after college I studied theatre and dance at the Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, Thailand. I graduated from the University of Evansville with a BFA in Theatre Performance and a minor in religion.