Welcome! I am a theatre director, educator, and Shakespeare nerd with 20+ years of experience unironically defending the musical Cats. As a director, I specialize in the revitalization of classic texts. I thrive when creating highly stylized worlds to use as a vehicle for telling stories about the human experience at this exact moment in time. As an educator, there is nothing I enjoy more than helping students find their voice through devised storytelling.
2024 marks a decade since I took my first directing job. Since then, I have enjoyed directing numerous plays and musicals in community theatres, universities, and at my regional theatre home—Greenbrier Valley Theatre. You can also occasionally find me in the classroom teaching students of all ages, or coaching post-graduates for MFA programs and auditions. I hold a BA in Theatre and Communication Arts from Gannon University and an MFA in Directing from the University of Portland.
I am proud to be employed as Artistic Associate and Director of Outreach at Greenbrier Valley Theatre, the State Professional Theatre of West Virginia. At GVT I direct, teach, and produce and develop new work for our annual Voices of Appalachia New Play Festival. I am also the co-creator and director of GVT’s Educational Touring Initiative—a program that tours new educational plays to elementary and middle schools across the state.
West Virginia is my home, but I am always excited to explore the corners of the Earth my next project will take me. Where will we go together?