ABOUT
I am a Professor, Assistant Chair, and Artistic Director in the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies (TPS) at Kennesaw State University. I hold an M.F.A. in Directing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and B.A.’s in Theatre and English Literature from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Prior to my faculty appointment at Kennesaw State University in January of 2000, I taught at University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Wake Forest University. For TPS, I teach courses in directing, performance studies, dramatic literature, theatre history, auditioning, and theatre appreciation in addition to directing for the Department’s production season. I served as the Department's Interim Chair from 2013-2015. My production work includes chamber theatre, performance ethnography, contemporary and period classics, and new play development. Favorite directing projects include Cardboard Piano and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet at Actor's Express; and Peter and the Starcatcher, Lynn Nottage’s Ruined, The Good Person of Szechuan, Fences, and the regional premiere of Karin Coonrod’s chamber theatre adaptations of Flannery O’Connor’s “A View of the Woods,” and “Everything that Rises Must Converge” at Kennesaw State University. In 2010, I directed the world premiere of Margaret Baldwin’s play Night Blooms for Atlanta’s Horizon Theatre Company. Outside the university, I have worked as a freelance director, dramaturg, and/or stage manager for theatres in New York City, North Carolina, California, and Atlanta, Georgia for over thirty years. An Associate Artist at Georgia Shakespeare from 1990-2014, I directed fourteen productions for the company. I have also toured with productions and performances to China, Morocco, and Germany. Current projects: Daryl Lisa Fazio's Safety Net, a 2018-2019 Alliance Theatre Reiser Artists Lab Project. The play will receive its world premier production at Atlanta's Theatrical Outfit in October 2019.
