Education
American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 1978-1980, New York, NY.
www.aada.org
- Three-year conservatory training in the craft of Acting. Invited to return to study for all three years of work.
- Attended two of the three-year program.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987.
www.unc.edu
- Bachelor of Arts with Honors and Distinction in English.
- Senior Honors Thesis on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well.
The Atlantic Theatre Company, Six Week Summer Intensive, 1993, Burlington, VT.
www.atlanticactingschool.org
International School for Actors and Directors, 2003, Belgrade, Serbia.
www.dahteatarcentar.com/school
Freelance Script Writer
2010: Swashbuckler Girl, a feature-length, fantasy film about a geeky, classic-movie obsessed teenage girl, who gets a new lease on life when a mysterious mentor barges into her world, transforming her into the matinee idol of her dreams. Currently being prepped for submission.
2010: The Mendenhall Plantation: A Family of Friends, an evening-length performance commissioned by The North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (NCSF), to be performed in 2011 as part of the 200th anniversary celebration at Mendenhall Plantation, Jamestown, NC. www.ncshakes.org
2010: Martha’s BFF Explains It All, a fictionalized, feature-length film, based on the early life of Martha Dandridge Washington and her soon to be cousin-in-law, Dorothea Spotswood Dandridge, and how they became the debutantes that took Williamsburg by storm. Currently in rewrites.
2009: Sixty minute versions of Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew, performed as a part of NCSF’s Shakespeare To Go tour to North Carolina middle and high schools and community colleges. www.ncshakes.org
2008-2009: Co-creator and Editor, Our American Ann Sisters, a vaudevillian extravaganza based on the real-life Peabody Sisters of 19th century New England. This evening length performance was developed by the Performers Exchange Project (PEP) ensemble, Charlottesville, VA. www.performers-exchange.org
2008: Sixty minute version of Romeo and Juliet, performed as a part of NCSF’s Shakespeare To Go tour to North Carolina middle and high schools and community colleges. www.ncshakes.org
2006: Zelda and Lucia’s Loony Bin Tragedy, a carnival-esque sideshow performance of the return of Agamemnon to his murderous wife Clytemnestra, as performed by Zelda Fitzgerald and Lucia Joyce. Created for PEP. www.performers-exchange.org
2005: Sixty minute version of Two Gentlemen of Verona, performed at The American Shakespeare Center by the theatre’s Young Company, Staunton, VA. www.americanshakespearecenter.com
2004: Dirtnap (Co-created and written with Thadd McQuade), a fantastical ghost story blending conventions and texts of melodrama and the American Civil War, developed for Foolery, Charlottesville, VA. www.foolery.org
1998 and 99: Cesario, two versions of a wordless, adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, featuring Viola/Cesario, Olivia and Feste, developed for Foolery. www.foolery.org
1997: Co-creator, Cyrano, a wordless adaptation of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, featuring Cyrano, Roxanne and Christian, created by the ensemble of Foolery. www.foolery.org
At Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 1997, Edinburgh, Scotland:
• Awarded the BBC Most Innovative Performance
• Nominated for Total Theatre Award
1987: Skeletal Dreams, a one-act, dark comedy about a pregnant teenage girl who refuses to name her baby’s father. Created as an undergraduate playwrighting project, UNC-CH.
• Undergraduate Playwrighting Award.
• Staged reading presented as part of an evening of award winning, undergraduate playwrighting, UNCChapel Hill.
Freelance Theatre Director and Producer
2010: Director, Shakespeare To Go, NCSF. www.ncshakes.org
2010: Director, The Affording Hope Project. www.affordinghopeproject.org
2009: Producer and Director, Our American Ann Sisters, PEP. www.performers-exchange.org
2009: Director, Shakespeare To Go, NCSF. www.ncshakes.org
2008: Director, A Christmas Carol, Lexington Youth Theatre. www.lexingtonyouththeatreinc.com
2007: Director, Shentai and Dido Versus the Squid Monster, PEP. www.performers-exchange.org
2006: Co-producer and Director, A Charlottesville Wunderkammer and Zelda and Lucia’sLoony Bin Tragedy, PEP. www.performers-exchange.org
2005: Director, Two Gentlemen of Verona (60 minute version), American Shakespeare Center. www.americanshakespearecenter.com
2004: Co-director, Dirtnap, co-produced and directed with Thadd McQuade, Foolery. www.foolery.org
1997 and 1998: Producer and Director, Cesario, Foolery. www.foolery.org
Freelance Actor
2004: Dirtnap, Foolery. www.foolery.org
2000 -02:The Shadow and Poor Oedipus, original adaptations of the early 20th century radio show and the classic tragedy by Sophocles, Theatre Du Jour (TDJ), Washington, DC. www.theatredujour.org
1997 to 2000: Founding and performing company member of Foolery, Charlottesville Virginia. Developed and performed in numerous theatrical and film productions. www.foolery.org
1995:Spurt of Blood, an original adaptation of Artaud’s one-act play, TDJ. www.theatredujour.org
1995: Non –Equity Company Member, performing in a three-person tour to North Carolina schools and the 1995 Main Stage season, NCSF. www.ncshakes.org
1994: Touring Company Member, The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express (now The American Shakespeare Center), Staunton, VA. www.americanshakespearecenter.com
Freelance Teaching Artist
2010:Developing Material For Performance workshops (with PEP) for actors and playwrights -- Hollins University, Roanoke, VA. www.hollins.edu
Piedmont Virginia Community College, Charlottesville, VA. www.pvcc.edu
2009/2010: Shakespeare On Your Feet workshops –
Cary Academy, Raleigh, NC. www.caryacademy.org
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. www.appstate.edu
2009:Developing Material For Performance workshop (with PEP) for actors -- Live Arts, Charlottesville, VA. www.livearts.org
2008:Developing Material For Performance working demonstration (with PEP) -- Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, NC. www.mbc.edu
2006: Shakespeare On and Off the Page, semester-long workshop for home school students ages 10 to 18, Charlottesville, VA.
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