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RESUME

Memberships:     Lincoln Center Directors Lab

                            Actor's Equity Association

THEATRE DIRECTING AND CHOREOGRAPHING (selected) MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street       Wallichs Theatre, Redlands, CA

Into The Woods                                               Saint Michael's Playhouse, Colchester, VT

Jesus Christ Superstar                                    Royal Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Pippin                                                             Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Spring Awakening                                           Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Urinetown                                                       Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Cabaret                                                           Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Godspell                                                          Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Ain't Misbehavin'                                            The Theatre Barn, New Lebanon, NY

Once On This Island                                       The Theatre Barn, New Lebanon, NY

The Fantasticks                                               Wise Family Theatre, El Paso, TX

THEATRE DIRECTING (selected) PLAYS

Almost Maine                                                  The University of Redlands, Redlands, CA

The Legend Of Georgia McBride                   The University of Redlands, Redlands, CA

The Legend of Georgia McBride                    Vermont Stage, Burlington,VT

Mothers and Sons                                           Vermont Stage, Burlington VT

Time Stands Still                                             Vermont Stage, Burlington VT

I'll Be Back Before Midnight                          Saint Michael's Playhouse VT

Unnecessary Farce                                         Saint Michael's Playhouse VT

The Normal Heart                                          Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

The Exonerated                                              Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Marat/Sade                                                     Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

How I Learned To Drive                                 Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Stop Kiss                                                         Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

A Doll's House                                                Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT

Found A Peanut                                              Royall Tyler Theatre, Burlington, VT 

Art                                                                   Wise Family Theatre, El Paso, TX

Santos & Santos                                              Wise Family Theatre, El Paso, TX

Real Women Have Curves                               Studio Theatre, El Paso, TX

Confessions of Women From East L.A.           Studio Theatre, El Paso, TX

PLAYWRITING - SELECTED PLAYS - FULL LENGTH

The El Paso Play: 23 Acts of Kindness         Virtual Reading Repertorio Espanol, New York, NY

                                                                        (Finalist, Latinx Voces National Playwriting Competition, 2021)

The El Paso Play                                            Reading, Company of Angels, Los Angeles, CA 2020

Our Father's House                                        Reading, Company of Angels, Los Angeles, CA, 2015

A Visit from San Cristóbal                              Reading, Compnay of Angels, Los Angeles, CA, 2014

When We Danced                                            Production, Flynn Center, Burlington, VT, 2010

                                                                        Production, Ko-Festival, Amherst MA 2010

                                                                        Workshop, Company of Angels, Los Angeles, CA 2009

Border Stories                                                 Production, Cal State, LA, Los Angeles, CA 2009

                                                                        Production, Flynn Center, Burlington, VT 2008

                                                                        Columbia University, New York, NY 2008

                                                                        University of N.C., Chapel Hill, NC, 2008

                                                                        Production, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ,                                                                             2007

Border Voices                                                  Tillery Street Theatre, Austin, TX, 2003

PLAYWRITING - SELECTED PLAYS - ONE ACT/SHORT PLAY

Graceful                                                         Queer Shorts Play Festival, Madison, WI, 2015

Boredom and Ecstasy                                     Queer Shorts Play Festival, Madison, WI, 2015              Sunrise on Peaked Hill Bars                          Provincetown Playwrights' Festival, 2014

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Redlands

      Professor and Chair, 2020-Present

Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Vermont

      Professor, Resident Director and Department Chair 2018 - 2020

      Associate Professor, Resident Director and Department Chair 2011-2018

      Assistant Professor, Resident Director 2006-2010

Department of Theatre, University of Texas at El Paso

      Assistant Professor 1999-2004

  • Teaching Areas: Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Diversity in Contemporary U.S. Theatre, Musical Theatre​ Dance

PUBLICATIONS

Cuentos de Josefina (Josephine's Tales)        Full Length Play (TYA), YouthPLAYS, 2017

"Meisner in the Undergraduate Setting." Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training. Routledge, 2020

ARTIST RESIDENCY

Djerassi Artist Residency Program, 2022

Djerassi Artist Residency Program, 2020

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 

Board President                                              Vermont Shakespeare Festival, 2015-2017

Advisory Board                                               Vermont Shakespeare Festival, 2017-2019

Board Member                                                Mainspring Arts Collective, 2016-2018

Steering Committee                                        Latinx Theatre Commons, 2016-2018

ACTING (Select Roles)

You Can’t Take It With You                            Saint Michael’s Playhouse     Kolenkhov

Pal Joey                                                          Huntington Theatre               Oscar

West Side Story                                               National Tour                         Pepe

West Side Story                                               European Tour                       Bernardo

The King and I with Rudolf Nureyev             National Tour                         Ensemble

The King and I with Yul Brynner                   National Tour                         Ensemble

Morton’s By The Bay -with Nell Carter         NBC TV                                  Edison

Blue Window                                                  Dvorak Space                         Griever

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