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Hello!  I have spent the past four years serving as Asst. Professor of Theatre at The University of the Ozarks.  In July, I began a full-time position serving as the Education Program Director for the Arkansas Coalition Against Sexual Assault where I use theatrical techniques in training Victim Advocates and other first responders. In 2021, I received a Visionary Voice Award for my work with ACASA. I studied Shakespeare and Performance at Mary Baldwin University, finishing my MFA in Directing in Dec of 2016 at University of South Dakota.  Having served as a freelance director, fundraising performer, and South Dakota Shakespeare Festival board member, I was thrilled to accept the Interim Artistic Director position with SDSF in the fall of 2021. I have served as a director for Prairie Repertory Theatre, North Dakota Shakespeare Festival, and South Dakota Shakespeare Festival. Favorite productions directed include Comedy of Errors (South Dakota Shakespeare Festival), Venus in Fur (University of South Dakota), The Diary of Anne Frank (University of the Ozarks), The Little Mermaid (Prairie Repertory Theatre), and Extremities (University of the Ozarks).  In the past I have served as the Arkansas State Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region VI.  I now freelance as a director and movement/ intimacy coach teaching classes focused on Acting, Directing, Shakespeare, Movement and Voice.  In 2021, I directed a devised production, For Hurting Hands which received two national awards from KCACTF including a Citizen’s Artist Award.  This production was devised by seven students approaching their perspectives on equality and diversity.  My passion comes from using theatre as a means to energize, entertain, and bring forth conversations about the world around us.  ​

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” 
          - Thomas Merton


                                                                    

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