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Evanston Salt Costs Climbing

What the Constitution Means to Me

The Addams Family

Smoke Break

Under the Surface

Marie Antoinette

Women Supporting Women

Seph

Kill

The Summer In Gossensass

Into the Woods (excerpt)

The Lower Depths (excerpt)

House Plant (excerpt)

Como La Tierra (co-directed)

The Laramie Project

She Kills Monsters

Woolgatherer

Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike

Will Arbery

Heidi Schreck

Lippa, Brickman, Ellis

Marnie Monogue

Isa Killian

David Adjmi

Jasmine Sharma

Tori Keenan-Zelt

Caryl Churchill

Maria Irene Fornes

Lapine & Sondheim

Maxim Gorky

Sarah Einspanier

Gretta Marston-Lari

Moisés Kaufman

Qui Nguyen

William Mastrosimone

Christopher Durang

Milwaukee Repertory Theater EPR Program

Lakeshore Players Theatre

Anthony Middle School

Makeshift Theatre’s 24by29 Chekhov Festival*

American Alliance for Theatre & Education*

Emerging Professionals Ensemble

Lime Arts Productions’ 20by20 Festival*

Macalester College Mainstage

National Theatre Institute - Eugene O’Neill Theater Center

Macalester College Mainstage

2020 Freestyle Company*

Macalester Huber-Seikaly Theater

DIRECTING—————————————————————————

ASSISTANT DIRECTING————————————————————

What the Constitution Means to Me

Little Women

A Christmas Carol

Nuncrackers

The Root Beer Lady

Carmela Full of Wishes

Today is My Birthday (intern)

Rocky Horror Show

dir. Laura Braza

dir. Marti Lyons

dir. Mark Clements, assoc. Jonathan Hetler

dir. Kelley Faulkner

dir. Addie Gorlin-Han

dir. Tatyana-Marie Carlo

dir. Lily Tung Crystal

dir. Harry Waters Jr.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater

The History Theatre

Children’s Theater Company

Theater Mu*

Macalester College Mainstage

NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT——————————————————

Black Bear Island

Swamp Lights

Respite

A Quick Guide to QAnon

Karissa Murrell Myers

Kiran Arquin

Jennifer Kehl

Alexander Scott Oleksy

Br!NK New Play Festival - Renaissance Theaterworks

Macalester Huber-Seikaly Theater

National Theatre Institute - Eugene O’Neill Theater Center

STAGE MANAGEMENT————————————————————

Write it Out Festival 2022 (ASM)

Treehouse Summer Intensive (SM)

NTI Fall 2021 Company Project (SM)

Down on the Farm (SM)

New Eyes Festival 2021 (ASM)

Como La Tierra (SM & Co-Director)

CV

dir. Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi

dir. Marci Lucht

dir. Rachel Jett

dir. Mel Salmon-Peterson

dir. Sara Ochs

Gretta Marston-Lari

National Queer Theater*

Yellow Tree Theatre

National Theatre Institute - Eugene O’Neill Theater

Stages Theater Company

Theater Mu*

Macalester College Mainstage

ADDITIONAL WORK—————————————————————

ARTS ADMINISTRATION———————————————————

Interim Production Coordinator

Interim Artistic Director

Instructor & Company Manager

Student Producer

Virtual Assistant*

Lakeshore Players Theatre

Youth Summer Theatre Program

Treehouse Summer Intensives - Yellow Tree Theatre

National Theatre Institute - Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center

Independent Contracts

White Bear Lake, MN

Red Wing, MN

Osseo, MN

Waterford, CT

Remote

Front of House

Fight Choreographer

Light & Sound Designer

Board Operator

Performance Coach

Auditions Coach*

Teaching Artist

Scenic Artist

Choreographer - Hadestown

Quills Virtual Reality Festival 2022

NYU’s Broke People Play Festival

Treehouse Summer Intensives

Mock-Trial Teams

Independent Contracts,

Summer Intensives

Spookley Halloween Youtube Show

National Theatre Institute

* indicates virtual work

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Brooklyn

New York University

Yellow Tree Theatre

Macalester College

Remote

Red Wing Community Ed, Yellow Tree Theatre

Stages Theater Company

Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center