"I see the classroom as a participatorium. The process of learning requires that we participate actively in our education, and if we don't, we're participotatoes."
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY TEACHING
Adjunct Professor, Theatre Program, Wofford College, Lexington, KY (Winter/Spring 2019)
Teaching courses in Playwriting, Introduction to Theatre, and Headspace Theatre
Teaching Artist, School for the Performing Arts/Lafayette High School, Lexington, KY (Sept. -- Nov. 2018)
Designed and taught a course on directing for high school students with SCAPA teacher Amie Kisling as part of the Model Curriculum Framework Project of the Educational Theatre Association in Cincinnati, OH.
Associate Professor, Theatre Program, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY (2012 – 2017)
Taught courses in dramatic literature and theatre history, comic theory, playwriting, introduction to theater, dramaturgy and imagining the production. Created and directed original student-written plays, Today Is History (Winter 2013), Shakespeare in Mind (Fall 2014), BewareWolf ... And Other Nightmares (2016), My Mother#*^#! College Life (2017), as well as a dramatic adaptation of poet Maurice Manning's Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (Winter 2014). Tenure received in 2016.
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (2009 – 2012)
Taught 7 courses (Directing, Senior Project and Production, Introduction to Theatre, Beg/Adv Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Theatre Practicum) along with independent studies and senior theses, directed productions of Bertolt Brecht’s Antigone and a musical adaptation of Animal Farm, supervised student new play festival – Playworks, and received a Goucher Innovation Grant, Faculty Travel Grant, three Crosby Course Development Grants, and a Faculty Grants Mentoring Award. Partnered on interdisciplinary projects with professors in the departments of Dance, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Music and English.
Dayton-Hudson Distinguished Professor and Artist at Carleton College, MN, 2003.
Taught a course in contemporary dramatic literature and directed Ice Glen.
Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Dramatic Art, North Carolina Central University, 1978-9.
Taught 8 courses in one academic year: directing, children’s theatre, dramatic literature, introduction to theatre, theatre management and playwriting.
Adjunct Professor, Theatre Program, Wofford College, Lexington, KY (Winter/Spring 2019)
Teaching courses in Playwriting, Introduction to Theatre, and Headspace Theatre
Teaching Artist, School for the Performing Arts/Lafayette High School, Lexington, KY (Sept. -- Nov. 2018)
Designed and taught a course on directing for high school students with SCAPA teacher Amie Kisling as part of the Model Curriculum Framework Project of the Educational Theatre Association in Cincinnati, OH.
Associate Professor, Theatre Program, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY (2012 – 2017)
Taught courses in dramatic literature and theatre history, comic theory, playwriting, introduction to theater, dramaturgy and imagining the production. Created and directed original student-written plays, Today Is History (Winter 2013), Shakespeare in Mind (Fall 2014), BewareWolf ... And Other Nightmares (2016), My Mother#*^#! College Life (2017), as well as a dramatic adaptation of poet Maurice Manning's Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions (Winter 2014). Tenure received in 2016.
Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD (2009 – 2012)
Taught 7 courses (Directing, Senior Project and Production, Introduction to Theatre, Beg/Adv Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Theatre Practicum) along with independent studies and senior theses, directed productions of Bertolt Brecht’s Antigone and a musical adaptation of Animal Farm, supervised student new play festival – Playworks, and received a Goucher Innovation Grant, Faculty Travel Grant, three Crosby Course Development Grants, and a Faculty Grants Mentoring Award. Partnered on interdisciplinary projects with professors in the departments of Dance, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Music and English.
Dayton-Hudson Distinguished Professor and Artist at Carleton College, MN, 2003.
Taught a course in contemporary dramatic literature and directed Ice Glen.
Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Dramatic Art, North Carolina Central University, 1978-9.
Taught 8 courses in one academic year: directing, children’s theatre, dramatic literature, introduction to theatre, theatre management and playwriting.