Summary of Professional Qualifications:

Dedicated, passionate, creative teaching artist with an attention for detail and a spirit to inspire. Superb written and oral communication skills. Patient multitasker with intuitive personal abilities. Extensive teaching experience ages three to adult.

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Professional Experience:

Teaching Artist

Manhattan Youth; September 2018-Present

• Provide constructive methods for students to enhance confidence, creativity, and social awareness.

• Develop programs for varied ages in theatre, improv, and super hero.

• Inspire interest and reflection in arts, culture, and current events.

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Judge, Irving-Marshall Prize Speaking Contest (Declamation)

Mercersburg Academy February 2018, February 2019

• Act as one of three judges; negotiate competition results.

• Provide written constructive feedback for participants. 

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Resident Theatre Manager

Gamut Theatre Group; July 2015-July 2018

• Develop and teach on and off site classes, residencies, and workshops in creative drama, basic theatre, advanced acting, improv, Shakespeare, team building, communication, and public speaking (ages three to adult). 

• Lead improv based team building workshops in corporate settings.

• Negotiate all on and off site educational program logistics; acquired a major new client generating a $5,000 annual increase in revenue.

• Write and direct plays for students of varying ages and abilities.

• Assistant direct main stage productions featuring 50+ actors and over a dozen designers, technicians, and collaborators. 

• Develop and teach choreography, fight choreography, and music.

• Manage all class, camp and audition registrations.

• Implement new onboarding process for interns. 

• Manage 250+ volunteers, mentor 10+ interns.

• Perform in Educational Outreach Shakespeare Tour and participate in talk-back sessions to provide deeper understanding of material.

• Execute leadership in targeting specific goals in a time sensitive setting. ​

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Instructor

Freshmade NYC; January 2015-July 2015

• Teach cooking classes to students ages eighteen months to ten years

• Host and assist cooking challenge themed dinner parties for adults

 

Director / Educational Program Coordinator

Prairie Fire Children’s Theatre, May - September 2014

• Oversee all aspects of touring production: technical elements, oral and written communication with sponsors, variances of conflict resolution.

• Cast and direct 75+ students ages five to eighteen in a full length musical production in six days.

• Design and implement a variety of workshops for a wide range of ages.

 

Education:

James Madison University BA Theatre and Dance, Music Minor