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Teaching Experience

Adult & Community Enrichment (ACE) | Writing Instructor

  • Micro-Memoir: Write Your Life into Story, 3/24-4/24
  • Bite-Sized Fiction: The Delicious Delight of Writing Short Stories, 1/24-2/24
  • Micro-Memoir: Write Your Life into Story, 9/23-11/23
  • Bite-Sized Fiction: The Delicious Delight of Writing Short Stories, 9/23-11/23
  • Micro-Memoir: Write Your Life into Story, 3/23-4/23
  • Bite-Sized Fiction: The Delicious Delight of Writing Short Stories, 1/23-2/23

Sarasota Area Playwrights Society (SAPS) | Guest Artist

  • Playwriting Workshop: Writing the One-Person Show, 1/24
  • Playwriting Workshop: Excavating Character, 10/22
  • Playwriting Workshop: Suspense and Tension, 12/21
  • Playwriting Workshop:  Character Development, 11/19
  • Playwriting Workshop:  Writing in 3D, 12/18
  • Playwriting Workshop:  New Play Development Logistics, 12/16
  • Playwriting Workshop:  Identifying and Critiquing Play Structure, 5/16

Brandeis National Committee Sarasota | Art in the Afternoon Guest Speaker

  • Directing: The Invisible Art, 2/23

Ringling College | Guest Artist in Creative Writing

  • Conflict and Dialogue, 9/23
  • Character and Voice, 11/22

ABC Books Inc. / Sarasota Fiction Writers | Guest Presenter

  • From Stage to Page, 10/22

​Florida Studio Theatre  |  Associate Artist

Winter 2021-Spring 2022
  • Playwriting 301 RoundTable (x3)
  • Mastering Story Structure (x2)
  • Spoken Memoir (x4)
  • Behind the Scenes (Winter Mainstage Season)
  • Playwright-Apprentice One-on-One Solo Play Project
Winter 2020-Summer 2021
  • Playwriting 301 RoundTable (x5)
  • Playwriting 201 Writing in 3D
  • Playwriting 101 The Toolbox
  • Behind the Scenes (x4, Various Seminar Topics)
  • Flying Solo (x5)
  • Page to Stage
  • MasterClass (x2)
Winter-Summer 2019-20
  • Flying Solo
  • Playwriting 301 RoundTable
  • Acting for Improvisers
  • Behind the Scenes (BRIGHT STAR, HANDLE WITH CARE, BIPOC Playwrights and Plays)
Summer 2019
  • Acting for Improvisers
  • Playwriting 101 The Toolbox
  • Behind the Scenes (THE COTTAGE)
Winter-Spring 2018-19
  • Acting for Improvisers
  • Flying Solo (x4)
  • Cabaret Performance (x2)
  • Playwriting 301 RoundTable (x4)
  • Behind the Scenes (A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER, STRAIGHT WHITE MEN, CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME, WEDNESDAY’S CHILD)
Summer 2018
  • Acting for Improvisers
  • Playwriting RoundTable
  • Behind the Scenes (OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY)
Winter-Spring 2017-18
  • Flying Solo (x3)
  • Playwriting RoundTable (x4)
  • Behind the Scenes (ONCE, HEISENBERG, HONOR KILLING)
Summer 2017
  • Flying Solo
  • Playwriting RoundTable
Spring 2017
  • Flying Solo
  • Page to Stage
  • NO FEAR Acting 2:  The Scene
  • Behind the Scenes (RICH GIRL)
  • Playwriting Workshop:  The Aria
  • Playwriting Workshop: Adaptation
  • NO FEAR Shakespeare
Fall-Winter 2016-17
  • Spoken Word
  • NO FEAR Acting 1:  The Monologue
  • Behind the Scenes (MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, CLEVER LITTLE LIES)
  • Playwriting Workshop:  Writing in 3D
  • Playwriting Workshop:  Comedy and Humor
Summer 2016
  • 10-Minute Play Project
Spring 2016
  • No Fear Acting 1, 2, 3, and 4
  • Behind the Scenes (OUTSIDE MULLINGAR, ALABAMA STORY)
Fall-Winter 2015-16
  • No Fear Acting 1 and 2
  • Devise and Conquer
  • Flying Solo
  • Behind the Scenes (ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS, BUTLER)
  • Playwriting Workshop
Summer 2015
  • Spoken Memoir
  • No Fear Auditioning
  • VIP Recital
Spring 2015
  • Flying Solo
  • No Fear Shakespeare
Winter 2014
  • Devise and Conquer
  • No Fear Acting
Summer 2014
  • Page to Stage
  • Writing for Performance
Spring 2014
  • Devise and Conquer
  • No Fear Acting
  • Reader’s Circle
Winter 2013
  • No Fear Acting
  • Reader’s Circle
Spring 2013
  • Adult Acting 1
  • Scenework Intensive
  • Reader’s Circle

Ozark Actors Theatre  |  Producing Artistic Director

  • Anatomy of an Audition, Fall 2012

Group Class for Teens  |  Freelance

  • Acting Intensive, Fall 2012

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis  |  Guest Artist

  • NEA Residency in Middle Schools for THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, Spring 2012

St. Louis University   |  Lecturer

  • Approaching the Arts:  Theatre, Fall 2010

University of Missouri-St. Louis  |  Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Media Studies

Spring 2010
  • Fundamentals of Acting
  • Ensemble Acting
  • Directing
Fall 2009
  • Fundamentals of Acting
  • Acting Styles:  Rise of Realism
Spring 2009
  • Ensemble Acting
  • Directing
Fall 2008
  • Script Analysis
  • Acting Styles:  Shakespeare
Spring 2008
  • Ensemble Acting
  • Directing
Fall 2007
  • Fundamentals of Acting
  • Acting Styles:  Modern Comedy
  • History of Theatre I

Fontbonne University  | Lecturer

  • Graduate Acting, Spring 2007
  • Performance Techniques, Fall 2006
  • Advanced Acting:  American Realism, Spring 2006

Washington University in St. Louis |  Lecturer

Spring 2007
  • Writing 1 (2 sections)
Fall 2006
  • Writing 1 (2 sections)
Spring 2006
  • Writing 1 (2 sections)
Fall 2005
  • Writing 1 (2 sections)
Spring 2005
  • Writing 1

Boys and Girls Club of St. Louis  |  Guest Artist

  • Theatre Camp, Summer 2006

Stages St. Louis  |  Guest Artist

  • Playwriting Residency at Marian Middle School, Fall 2004

Washington University in St. Louis |  Teacher’s Assistant

Fall 2004
  • Theatre Culture Studies I:  Antiquity to Medieval (w/ Dr. Henry Schvey)
Spring 2004
  • Theatre Culture Studies Seminar:  Gender in Contemporary Performance (w/ Dr. Julie Jordan)
Fall 2003
  • Magic of the Stage (w/ Dr. D.J. Hopkins)

Rosati-Kain High School  |  Guest Lecturer

  • Film Class Presentation on CITIZEN KANE, 2003, 2004, 2008

Center of Creative Arts  |  Guest Artist

Summer 2003
  • Create and Perform a Play
Summer 2002
  • Shakespeare
  • Acting

St. Louis Science Center  |  Guest Artist

Summer 2001
  • Theatre Camp
Summer 2000
  • Theatre Camp

West County YMCA | Guest Artist

  • Theatre Camp, Summer 2001

St. Mary’s High School  |  Guest Instructor

  • British Literature, Fall 2001

Bond County Community Unit School District 2  | Substitute Teacher

  • Various Classes, Fall 1998-Spring 1999