directing
My foremost responsibility as a director is to listen: to the text, to the space, to each actor as an individual and the ensemble as a collective, to the wider creative team, and of course to our anticipated audience. I approach each play as a macro/micro puzzle. In the macro, I take a rhythmic and architectural approach to story structure and character development, exploring tension across space and time, finding the musicality of each scene and the play as a whole, and elasticizing the invisible strings connecting actors (and audience) as they navigate their space. In the micro, nothing is more interesting than each actor’s unique instincts, which I seek to support through trauma-informed exploration of character, language, personal connection, and meaning.
Directing projects include War of the Roses, Part 1: She-Wolves and Queens in 2023 followed by War of the Roses, Part 2: Curses and Queens in 2024, and Romeo & Juliet in 2026, all with Advice To The Players in Sandwich, NH, as well as facilitating an actor-driven King Lear reading with Cadent Shakespeare Co. in Northampton, MA.
Directing Romeo & Juliet at Castle in the Clouds with Advice To The Players, 2026
acting
Working primarily with Shakespeare, I seek conversation and collaboration amongst actors and audience, supported by thorough textual investigation, clear physical life, and a deeply personal voice.
I have worked with companies throughout the (mostly) Northeast, including New York Classical Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Majestic Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Elsewhere Shakespeare, and Advice To The Players.
As an ongoing student of this art form, I have trained in movement, voice, clown, fight, dance, and acting with a number of companies, including Alexandra Beller Dances, Shakespeare & Company, The Barrow Group, the Linklater Voice Center, and The Humanist Project. I also hold an M.F.A. from the Academy at Shakespeare Theatre Company in conjunction with George Washington University.
Select credits include Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Helena (All’s Well That Ends Well); Mistress Page (Merry Wives of Windsor); Sir Toby Belch (Twelfth Night); Hero (Much Ado About Nothing); Lucy (The Rivals); Friar Lawrence (Romeo and Juliet); Adriana (Comedy of Errors); and Gertrude, Ophelia, Osric, and both gravediggers (Hamlet).