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Welcome!
I am a dramaturg: theatre artist and educator.
I direct and dramaturg plays, read scripts and advocate for playwrights, review performances and write articles, teach, lead workshops and inspire students to create their own work for the stage.
Please browse through my past work & get in touch .



Currently I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre in the School for Interdisciplinary Arts at Hampshire College, where I teach courses in dramatic literature, play creation, dramaturgy and theatre for social change.

I was the Director of Education at Hartford Stage.  I dramaturged Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets, and initiated a teen performance ensemble and a teenage playwriting competition.  Prior to that, I spent five years running the YouthAware Theatre-in-Education touring division at the New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco. The YouthAware program reaches approximately 25,000 students throughout Northern California each year with programs that address such issues as homophobia, HIV infection, and substance abuse.

In the Pioneer Valley, I have been a theatre critic for the Valley Advocate.  I initiated and directed a series of staged readings of plays in bars and cafes called Beer and a Play.  I also produced and co-directed The Lonely Soldier Project by Helen Benedict - an immersive performance of testimony of American women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I read script submissions for Hartford Stage, Company One in Boston and ATHE's Jane Chambers Award.    I also deliver audience lectures for Chester Theatre Company, act as a dramaturgy respondent for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, write for the theatre website Howlround, and co-teach an annual UMass summer program at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.