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Upcoming:
| My Arab (Samer Al-Saber) † |
Stanford University |
Magic Fruit (Alejandra Rivas & Kimiya Shokri) |
TheatreFIRST |
Make No Mistake (Betty Shamieh) |
All New People |
pussygrabbingREVENGE (Elaine Magree) |
TheatreFIRST |
Elevada (Sheila Callaghan) |
Shotgun Players |
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) |
Oakland Theater Project |
This Much I Know (Jonathan Spector) † |
Playwrights Foundation |
Cutting Ball Theater’s Variety Pack |
Cutting Ball Theater |
Women Laughing Alone… (Callaghan) ‡ |
Shotgun Players |
In Braunau (Dipika Guha) • |
San Francisco Playhouse |
Next to Normal (Yorkey/Kitt) |
YMTC+ |
Community Meeting Tonight (Kilbanes) † |
Just Theatre New Play Lab |
Participants (various) ‡ |
TheatreFIRST |
Make No Mistake (Betty Shamieh) • |
Golden Thread/ReOrient |
Thanksgiving at… (Torange Yeghiazarian) • |
Golden Thread/ReOrient |
Queen of Basel (Hilary Bettis) † |
Bay Area Playwright’s Festival |
The Events (David Greig) |
Shotgun Players |
That it all makes perfect (Erin Bregman) • |
6NewPlays |
Caught (Christopher Chen) ‡ |
Shotgun Players |
The Rules (Dipika Guha) • |
San Francisco Playhouse |
Blockbuster Season (Ensemble) • |
Mugwumpin/Intersection for the Arts |
Our Town (Thornton Wilder) ‡ |
Shotgun Players |
Amnesia (Ariel Luckey) • |
La Pena Cultural Center |
And when we awoke … (Laura Jacqmin) |
Saint Mary’s College |
Grounded (George Brant) • |
NNPN/San Francisco Playhouse |
Stranger Play (Martín Zimmerman) † |
Marin Theatre Company |
Assassins (Sondheim/Weidman) ‡ |
Shotgun Players |
A Lie of the Mind (Sam Shepard) ‡ |
Boxcar Theatre |
Future Motive Power (Ensemble) • |
Mugwumpin |
Care of Trees (E. Hunter Spreen) ‡ • |
Shotgun Players |
The Glass Menagerie (Williams) ‡ |
Town Hall Theatre Company |
Fat Pig (Neil LaBute) |
Sonoma County Repertory |
The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) ‡ |
Town Hall Theatre Company |
The Threepenny Opera (Brecht/Weill) ‡ |
Shotgun Players |
Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov) ‡ |
Porchlight Theatre Company |
Old Times (Harold Pinter) ‡ |
TheatreFIRST |
Rabbit Hole (David Lindsay-Abaire) ‡ |
Town Hall Theatre Company |
The Lady from the Sea (Henrik Ibsen) |
A.C.T. M.F.A. Program |
Electricidad (Luis Alfaro) |
Sacramento Theatre Company |
The Faith Project (Ensemble) • |
Mondavi Center for the Perf Arts |
611 $upreme (E. Hunter Spreen) ‡ • |
Paducah Mining Co. |
Hot ‘n’ Throbbing (Paula Vogel) |
Paducah Mining Co. |
Fool for Love (Sam Shepard) ‡ |
Paducah Mining Co. |
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Education and Training
M.F.A., Directing, University of California, Davis
Directing: Sarah Pia Anderson, Irina Brown, Della Davidson, Peter Lichtenfels
B.F.A., Drama, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Directing: Robert Moss, Joan Vail Thorne, Anne Bogart, Todd London
Additional Skills and Training
Viewpoints & Suzuki (Jeffrey Bihr, Anne Bogart, Mary Overlie, SITI Company)
Composition & Devising (Angus Balbernie, Anne Bogart, Emmanuelle Delpech, Maureen Pennison, SITI, Pig Iron)
Linklater Voice Work (Chuck Jones, Francine Zerfas, Lisa Anne Porter)
Contact Improvisation (Krista DeNio, Eric Kupers, Jennifer Chien)
Action Theatre (Ruth Zaporah and Krista DeNio)
Biomechanics (Gennadi Bogdanov)
Lecoq (Emmanuelle Delpech, Leslie Felbain, Christopher Ward White)
Physical Theatre (Matthew Roberts)
Affiliations
Shotgun Players: Company Member 2010-Present; EDI Committee Member 2017-Present;
Champagne Reading Series Coordinator 2015-2017; Associate Artistic Director 2013-2015
Mugwumpin: Company Member 2013-2021
San Francisco University High School: Theatre Director & Arts Program Coordinator 2013-Present
Saint Mary’s College of California: Adjunct Faculty 2012-Present
California Shakespeare Theater: Teaching Artist 2002-2013
Awards and Nominations
Dean Goodman Choice Awards for Outstanding Direction: Fool for Love, 611 $upreme
Bay Area Critics Circle Nominations for Outstanding Direction: The Threepenny Opera, A Lie of the Mind
Shellie Award Nominations for Outstanding Direction: Rabbit Hole, The Glass Menagerie
Broadway World Nominations for Outstanding Direction: Care of Trees, Assassins
• World Premiere
† Denotes Staged Reading
‡ Award Nominated or Award Winning Production