Cultural Strategy, Organizing & Field-Building

Supported coalition of Oakland artists and community groups throughout animation of Community Benefit Agreement governing the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center

Inaugural Seed Team member (core organizing team) of the Bay Area Theater Accountability Workgroup

Former co-chair of Theatre Bay Area’s Theater Services Committee (TSC)

Cohort member of Theaters Advancing Social Change (TASC)

Panelist on leadership search, grant, and festival committees (including the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, TBA’s Arts Leadership Residency, and Marin Shakespeare Theater)

Ongoing learning and training in (use the provided links to learn more about- and hire- the individuals/orgs who do this work!):

• anti-racist facilitation (Making Good Trouble with Beatrice Thomas of Authentic Arts & Media)

• personal anti-racist education (Undoing Racism with the People’s Institute; Carmen Morgan from artEquity; Lisa Evans & Kim Tran)

• intimacy direction (workshop with Claire Warden from Intimacy Directors International)

• transformative justice & abolition (intensive with Mia Mingus of the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective, organizing work with Community Ready Corp Allies & Accomplices)

• disability justice & access (Patty Berne from Sins Invalid)

Producing, Casting & Administration

Interim Casting Associate & Workshop Producer (present) American Conservatory Theater

Company Management Assistant for Galileo Berkeley Repertory Theatre

Special Programs Outreach & Communications Coordinator Black Arts Movement Business District, CDC

Executive Assistant Lower Bottom Playaz

Artistic Consultant Center REPertory Theater

Artistic Producer California Shakespeare Theater

Artistic Associate & Casting Manager California Shakespeare Theater

Artistic Fellow  California Shakespeare Theater

Arts Administration Intern Theatre Bay Area

Production Assistant for I Am the Wind by Jon Fosse (dir. Will Hand) Do It Live! Productions

Production Assistant for The Whistleblower by Itamar Moses (dir. Casey Stangl) Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Rep

Artistic Intern Cherry Lane Theatre

Visitor Services Intern Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Directing

Susan B. by Daphne White Bay Area Women’s Theater Festival (staged reading)

Champagne by Barry Eitel 6NewPlays (world premiere)

ReproRights! Radical Hope and the New Resistance by various writers 3Girls Theatre Company (staged reading)

white íris by Linda Girón ShortLived IV

Done by Eve Edelson Pint-Sized Plays

Nutcracked by Ruben Grijalva Playground SF (staged reading)

Young Playwrights Project TheatreWork Silicon Valley (staged reading)

REVISIONS by Cross the Line ensemble Chapman University

Associate & Assisting Directing

Helen by Ellen McLaughlin (dir. Shannon Davis) Associate Director Theatre of Yugen

The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence by Madeleine George (dir. Nancy Carlin) Assistant Director Shotgun Players

You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw (dir. Lisa Peterson) Assistant Director Cal Shakes

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (dir. Jackson Gay) Assistant Director Cal Shakes

The Serpent by Jean-Claude van Itallie (dir. Tom Bradac) Assistant Director Chapman University

(Formal) Education

B.F.A. in Theater Performance, Minor in Sociology, Chapman University

Semester abroad at City University in London

Advanced Training Leading Artists to Success (ATLAS), Theatre Bay Area

Springboard NYC, American Theatre Wing

NHSI Theater Arts (Cherubs), Northwestern University

Other Awards & Activities

• Classes & panels on casting, auditions, industry change, and navigating an artistic career with TheatreFIRST, Theatre Bay Area, St. Mary’s College, and more

• Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation Observership Class 2017/2018

• 2017 PlaygroundSF Directing Apprentice

• 2015 Artist as Citizens Conference Fellow