Teaching & Workshops

Over 15 years of experience facilitating creative and performing arts training for adult professionals, emerging artists, and K-12 youth across the USA and internationally.

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Youth Education

Encouraging self-expression, confidence, creativity, mindfulness and collaboration through creative and performing arts education for children of all ages and abilities.

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Movement Direction

Providing movement direction for scripted and devised works. Bring me on to choreograph a scene, as an outside eye, movement coach, or collaborator inside of an ensemble process.

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Professional Training

Teaching areas include Lecoq-based Theatre, Improvisation, Corporeal Mime, Mask Performance (Neutral, Larval, Expressive, Commedia dell’Arte), Clown, Bouffon, Public Speaking, Scene Study, Creative Drama in the Classroom (for educators).


Past Workshops

Cleveland Public Theatre
Touchstone Theatre
Talespinner Children's Theatre
Cleveland State University, Department of Theatre & Dance
Montessori High School of University Circle
The Center for Arts-Inspired Learning (formerly ArtWorks)
The Children's Home of Easton
Intermediate Unit 20 at the Colonial Academy
Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts
Children's Museum of Jordan (Amman, JO)
The Circus Space (London, UK)
Baltimore Theatre Project
Washington State Corrections Center for Women
Discover Smoke Farm
EffectiveARTS, Inc.
University of Washington
University of Virginia Young Writers' Workshop
Goucher Summer Center for the Arts
University of Maryland Summer Arts Camp
Mercy Behavioral Health Center
Bethlehem Area School District
Allentown School District
Seattle School District