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Directing Experience: Plays

Ross Valley Players

City Lights San Jose

Escuela Billingue Internacional

Cultureworks

BOA/Playwrights' Center

Impact Theatre

Wicked Stage Theatre

Peninsula Youth Theatre

Prospect Sierra Theatre

East Bay School of the Arts

San Anselmo Playhouse

Marsh Theatre

BOA/Unidentified Theatre Company

Playwrights' Center of San Francisco

Creative Arts Academy of San Diego

All My Sons
Second Weekend in September

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Alice in Wonderland

In Defense of Anger
Busybody
The Wreck on the Five Twenty Five
Mrs. Palsgraf’s Dream Team
The Red Coat/ A Midnight Clear
Pippi Longstocking/Peter Rabbit
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Frogs
A Christmas Carol
Channeling Glen Miller
Real/Not Real
Duet in Platinum/A Place You Can Go
Bus Stop

Directing Experience: Musical Theater/Opera

Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena

Splinters of Ice *

Once Upon a Mattress

Oklahoma!

Peter Pan

Kiss the Frog

Dido and Aeneas

The San Francisco Magic Flute

Annie Get Your Gun

Guys and Dolls

Josephine and the Sheep of Dreams

Whiskers! *

Moments of Truth (reading)

The Snow Queen*

The Magic Flute *

Xerxes (Associate Director)

How Andy Found His Voice (tour)

Not Without our Women (reading)

Pippin

Lysistrata , the Musical*

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

The Little Prince*

The Fairy Queen

Dido and Aeneas*

In Search of Eurydice*

The Magic Flute

The Telephone

The Baker’s Wife*

Jerry’s Girls*

Oklahoma!

Oliver!*

Annie*

West Side Story*

Annie Get Your Gun*

Once Upon A Mattress*

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown*

The Little Prince*

Dreamers*

Narnia*

The Nightingale*

Alice in Wonderland*

Whiskers!*

Kiss the Frog*

Peter Pan*

* direction and choreography

San Francisco Opera Guild

Albany High School

Escuela Bilingue

Head-Royce School

San Francisco Opera Guild

Albany High School

Lyricabella Productions/Creativity Theater

3Girls Theatre

San Francisco Opera Guild

West Edge Opera

San Francisco Opera Guild

3Girls Theatre

University of San Francisco

Mayhaps Productions

42nd Street Moon

San Francisco Opera Guild

El Paso Opera

Stagedoor Manor

San Anselmo Playhouse

Novato Civic Theatre

Walnut Creek Civic Arts

Galatean Players Ensemble

Creative Arts Academy of San Diego

Related Experience

San Franciso Opera Guild: Director of Education (2006-present)
Wicked Stage Theatre, San Francisco, CA: Co-Artistic Director (2005-2007)
42nd Street Moon, San Francisco, CA: Director of Education/Family Programming, (2003-2009)
TADA!, New York City: Teaching Artist/Director/Choreographer, (2004-2005).
The Imagination Company, San Francisco/Touring:Actor/Educator, (1997- 1999)
Magic Theatre, San Francisco: Literary Committee (1998-2000)
Galatean Players Ensemble Theatre, Concord, CA: Associate Artistic Director: (1996-99)
20+ yrs teaching experience in drama/music/dance (Resume available upon request)
Freelance Composer/Playwright (Resume available upon request)

Education

Music B.A. Music: University of California, San Diego. Cum Laude, Departmental Honors; minors in Italian and Dramatic Literature

Acting California Shakespeare: Apprentice Company; A.C.T. : Meryl Shaw, Bruce Williams, Barbara Scott, Tim Orr, Andrew Hurteau; Old Globe Theatre,

San Diego: David Wright; Suzuki Training: Jeffrey Bihr; Viewpoints Training: Todd Salovey; Meisner Training: Rachael Adler

Dance: Tap, classical ballet, Modern, Jazz, Belly, Choreography

Honors

2013 Women Arts and Media Collaboration Award finalist for original musical: Moments of Truth
2011 Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre Scriptfest Finalist for original musical: Not Without Our Women
2009 Project of Special Merit Award Recipient for Design/Implementation of “Book to Bravo!” Composition Program: OVI, Santa Fe
2002 SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award: Best Leading Actress in a Musical: Whispers on the Wind
2000 Dixon Place NYC Competition Winner for Original Musical: Alice in Cyberland
1998 SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award Nomination/performance: Fanny