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ACtor, Puppeteer, Educator

AEA - SAG/AFTRA

Last: Penelope and Circe in An Odyssey with Quantum Theatre Company. Reader for the staged reading of the pilot episode of Graham Sack’s The Harvard Computers at Pioneer Works.

Growing: In the theatrical pause, I deepened my training: Theatrical Intimacy Education - 6 hrs. in Best Practices; Essential Movements of Jacques LeCoq I and II with Yuval Boim, LeCoq Masterclass I and II with Normal Taylor, and Play and Theater Games for the Virtual Space with Sam Metzger through Movement Theater Studio; 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training.

Recent: Gwendolyn in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Playtime reading of The Importance of Being Earnest. The Playtime series brings live theater from the artists’ homes into the audience’s homes thanks to the interwebs during this social-distancing time. Project Amelia with Bricolage. Actor/devisor with Tectonic Theater Project’s The Album: Here There Are Blueberries.

Slightly Less Recent: Cordelia in King Lear with Quantum Theatre at the Carrie Furnaces and Anne in The Father with Kinetic Theatre at the New Hazlett in Pittsburgh. Amanda in Private Lives at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, FL. Body: Anatomies of Being with Blessed Unrest at the New Ohio in NYC. The Pact at St. Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab. Hagoromo at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The Return at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. War Horse North American Tour.

Notable: Theatre Sabab's In The Eruptive Mode: a series of monologues in Arabic and English that explore themes of desire and violence in the contemporary Arab worldWe performed in Tunis in November, 2016; in Metz, France at the Festival Passages in May, 2017; and in Antwerp, Belgium in October, 2017, and at ArtsEmerson in Boston in January, 2018.

Ingrid Bergman in CasablancaBox, a behind the scenes telling of the making of Casablanca - a movie about a war, made during that war, largely by people displaced by that war. We ran at HERE Arts Center in April 2017 and were nominated for two Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Projection Design for Reid Farrington, and Unique Theatrical Experience. 

Streaming: Dan Hurlin's Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed premiered at Bard SummerScape in 2016. As part of their Upstreaming series, the whole performance is now available through the Fisher Center’s Virtual Stage. See the New Yorker's wonderful teaser video. Read Ben Brantley call it a "Harrowing Puppet Show" in his Review in The New York Times. Read Helen Shaw's gorgeous Review in the Village Voice. Read Howlround's stunning essay on the piece. 

Company member with Blessed Unrest. Theatre Maker with Daughters of Troy.