Teaching:

Stephen Sondheim says that teaching is the most sacred profession.

I agree.

I started teaching the summer after graduating college.

I’ve had the pleasure of teaching improv in NYC public schools, juggling in branches of the NYPL in all five boroughs, and masterclasses in a myriad of disciplines with community theaters in NY and NJ. It is my favorite thing to do. I have created curriculum for classes in everything theater from Solo Performance to Understanding Shakespeare, Devising, Stanislavsky Acting, Writing for Musical Theater, Juggling, Improv, Sleight of Hand, College Auditioning, How to Not Lose Your Mind While Auditioning for Colleges and more…

I've taken a lot of classes.

I started studying this noble nonsense when I was very little. Now I'm taller, and I graduated  from acting and directing school (Fordham Lincoln Center) with a BA. It was an awesome place that I'm truly proud to have spent four years at. I'm also humbled by, and grateful to, the many folks there who ensured that it was only four years...

Take that Mr. Kreegan. (my high school guidance counselor).

So now I've got a fancy calligraphic piece of paper that says I know something about something.

Ironically, by the time you graduate a Jesuit theater school,  I think all you feel you really know is how little you know. So the piece of paper is kind of a kick in the teeth really. But I keep it on my wall anyway. It was expensive. 

 I've gotten to study abroad twice (Bard College Berlin Experimental Theater, London Dramatic Academy). 

Here is a list of the fancy folks who have been patient and generous enough to let me in their class:

Musical Theater: Janeece Freeman Clark/ Dwayne Clark (Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark, The color purple), Frank Sibella Mills, Julie Boyd, David Loud (Merrily We Roll Along), Okieriete Onaodowan (Hercules Mulligan Hamilton), Marcel Coleman. 

Acting: Stephen Mckinley henderson (Fences, Lincoln), Stephanie Dimaggio, Tina Benko (The Crucible, The Cherry Orchard, Scenes From a Marriage, Jackie), Matthew Maguire (OBIE Award Winner), George Drance.

Voice: 2 years Linklater training, Andrea Haring, Simon money 

Movement: Dawn Saito, Eva Burghart 

Devising: Nina Tecklenburg, Gob Squad, Rimini Protocol, David Levine, Jonathan Rosenberg

Directing: Elizabeth Margid, Chad MaCarver, Kai Brothers, Eliza Baldi

Clowning/ Improv: George Drance, Paper Mill Playhouse