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TEACHING CREDITS
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SPEECH TEACHER/COACH
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New Actors Workshop (current)
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Two year professional conservatory program
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Skinner Technique; IPA;
Working with verse and elevated text;
Dialects;
Advisor to Masters Candidates
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American Academy of Dramatic
Art (current)
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Three year professional training conservatory program
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Skinner technique, IPA;
Voice
Director
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Tada Theatrical Ensemble School (current)
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Pre-professional training program - students ages 10-17
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Voice and Diction;
Poetry and Shakespeare;
Acting through text
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The Creative Seed Network Excellent Service Series
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KeyIn To Speech
Workshop
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T. Schreiber Studio
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Speech and Dialects
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Dialect Coach
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Escape From Happiness
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Orpheus Descending
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Alabama Shakespeare Festival
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Voice and Movement Master – 3 Seasons
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Mint Theatre Co
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Dialect Coach: New
Music
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Halle Theatre, Cleveland, OH
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Speech Coach: Merchant of Venice (w/ M. Carnovsky)
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North Canyon High School;
Phoenix, AZ
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Shakespeare Workshop
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ADDITIONAL TEACHING CREDITS
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Florida Community College Jacksonville
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Directing Shakespeare
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PBS National Teacher Training Institute
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Keynote Speaker
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Directing as a model for the classroom
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ADAPT, NYC
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The Theatrical Choice
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A workshop on what makes something "theatrical"
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Society for the Advancement of Judaism; NYC
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The Dybbuk
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A three week class on the play,
its role in Jewish Theatre, and the religious, mythic and superstitious
elements
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West End Synagogue, NYC
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Two Faces of Shlyock
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A lecture on Shakespeare’s villain and the hero of Wesker’s The
Merchant
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DIRECTING CREDITS
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Hedda Gabler
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Stage 73, Manhattan Theatre Club
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Summer and Smoke
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Stage 73, Manhattan Theatre Club
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Grit in a Sensitive Instrument (NY Premiere)
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Vineyard Theatre, NYC
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Pretty Witty Nell (NY Premiere)
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Vineyard Theatre, NYC
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Titus Andronicus
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The Basic Theatre, 46 Walker St. Theatre, NYC
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Santa Monica Threeway (NY Premiere)
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The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
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Bertolt Brecht:In Dark Times (NY Premiere)
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The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
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Shaviana (Premiere)
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The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
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Titus Andronicus
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The Basic Theatre, 46 Walker St. Theatre, NYC
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Santa Monica Threeway (NY Premiere)
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The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
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Bertolt Brecht:In Dark Times (NY Premiere)
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The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
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Shaviana (Premiere)
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The Basic Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC
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The Haircut
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The Basic Theatre, 46 Walker St. Theatre, NYC
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Sure Thing
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The Basic Theatre, 46 Walker St. Theatre, NYC
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Free Pass to Soria Moria (U.S. Premiere)
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City University of NY
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The White Whore and the Bit Player
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Core Group; Theatre Row Theatre,
NYC
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Pearl
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Pulse Ensemble Theatre, NYC
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Soap Opera
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Renegade Theatre Co., John Houseman Theatre, NYC
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Bright Room Called Day
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Cleveland Public Theatre
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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Cleveland Public Theatre
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Sweet Phoebe
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Cleveland Public Theatre
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Science Gets Serious (Premiere)
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Cleveland Public Theatre
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Mister Lincoln
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The Acting Company
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Macbeth
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Shakespeare in San Marco, Jacksonville, FL
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Twelfth Night
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Shakespeare in San Marco, Jacksonville, FL
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Hamlet
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Shakespeare at the Met, Jacksonville, FL
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The Tempest
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Shakespeare at the Met, Jacksonville, FL
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Awake and Sing
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Halle Theatre, Cleveland, OH
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Last Chance for Happiness (Premiere)
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T. Schreiber Studio, NYC
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Loot
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T. Schreiber
Studio, NYC
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Shatter The Vessel (Premiere)
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Charlottesville,VA New Play Festival
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Blithe Spirit
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Findlay SummerStock, Findlay, Ohio
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Bus Stop
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Findlay SummerStock, Findlay,
Ohio
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Artifice (Premiere)
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42nd St. Collective
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Real Live Dancing Boy (Premiere)
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42nd St. Collective Summerfest
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Gift of the Magi (Musical/Tour)
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Interborough Repertory Theater
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Snake Eyes (Premiere)
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Stagewrights, NYC
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Gutterballs (Premiere)
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Stagewrights, NYC
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In Memory (Premiere)
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Westside Rep, NYC
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Felicia
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Silver Lining Cabaret, NYC
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A Season in Rep (Premiere)
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West Coast Ensemble, LA
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A Place To Come Home To
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Westside Rep, NYC
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Nathaniel (Premiere)
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Theatre 11, NYC
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As You Like It (A
New Musical)
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Brothers & Sisters Cabaret, NYC
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Readings and Workshops:
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The Basic Theatre, Stagewrights,
42nd St. Collective Cleveland Public Theatre, NYU, ADAPT, The New Group, IRT
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Industrials
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Hoffman-Hedges Prod
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ACTING CREDITS
(selected, full list available including film , television and radio)
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Mortal Coil
(all roles)
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NY Int'l Fringe Festival
Cleveland Public Theatre
Stella Adler Theatre, LA
Video
Winner: Cleveland Drama Critics Award
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Polymorphous Perverse (George)
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42nd St. Collective Summerfest
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The Tempest (Ariel)
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People's Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA
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All Compact (He)
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TYA Tour
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck)
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Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio)
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Taming of the Shrew (Tranio)
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Alabama Shakespeare Festival
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School for Wives (Alain)
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Three Seasons in Repertory
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Tartuffe (Tartuffe)
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As You Like It (Jacques)
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Also served as company
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Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry)
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Voice and Movement Master
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Macbeth (Angus)
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Two Gentlemen of Verona (Speed)
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Hamlet (Guildenstern;
Osric)
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The Comedy of Errors (Dromio)
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WRITING CREDITS
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Mortal Coil (play)
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Reading, Basic Theatre Marathon, NYC
Produced: NY Int'l Fringe Festival
Produced: Cleveland Public Theatre
Winner of Cleveland Drama Critics Award
Stella Adler Theatre, Los Angeles
Produced: Video - Pan:Image, Inc.
Selected Institutional Venues
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Seven Keys to Success Without Struggle (w/P. Brackett)
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Book Published by The Creative Seed
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Nazis & The Occult: Myths, Mystics and Madmen
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Cinnabar Pictures/Discovery Channel
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20th Century Fox: The First
Fifty Years
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Van Ness Films / AMC TV
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Carmen Miranda: The South American Way
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Van Ness Films/ A&E TV
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Tyrone Power: The Last Idol
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Biography
Series
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James Brown: Godfather of Soul
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GoodMarc Productions/ A&E TV Biography Series
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Contributing Writer
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My Weekly Reader
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Contributing Writer
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Facilities Magazine
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Contributing Writer
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IndiePlanet (web magazine - theatre channel)
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The Mystery Page
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A monthly column in A&E Monthly Magazine
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To Be Quentin
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Miracles: A Fable
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Children's' Plays
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The New Baby
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Published by Sundance
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Victory At Calvin Coolidge
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Publishing
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Life In The Laugh Track
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Aeon Dubai (Industrial
Presentation)
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Reiser-Unemoto-Reiser
Architectural
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The Bride's Guide (60' Instructional Video)
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E.N.D. Productions
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POV: Max (A Sitcom Treatment; w/ Merrick Bursuk)
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Children's Television Workshop
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A Season
in Rep (Play)
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Workshop
Production West Coast Ensemble, LA
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Pajama Party Horror (Screenplay; w/ Lynn Lowry)
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DRAMATURG
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In My Father’s Eyes
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Anastassi/Friedman
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Time of the Elephants
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W. Graf
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Farenheit 451
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Jax Reads
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ADDITIONAL
CREDITS
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Director in Residence
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The Basic Theatre, NYC
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Executive Director
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The Conspiracy Theatre, NYC
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Director of Stage Combat
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NY Grand Opera at BAM
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Reader
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The Hartford Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Westbeth
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Field
Coordinator
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NBC News
Elections
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Volunteer
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Jacob Perlow
Hospice
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Freelance Copy and Technical Writing
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Private Coaching
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MEMBERSHIPS
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UNIONS: AEA; SAG;
AFTRA
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VASTA
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The Bernard Shaw Society
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Mystery Writers of America
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TRAINING
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BFA Program; Carnegie‑Mellon
University
Speech &
Dialects: Edith Skinner; Directing:
Lawrence Carra;
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Columbia University: Director's Forum with Jerry Zaks,
Judith Malina, Andrei Serban, Simonne Benmussa
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Shakespeare: John Barton, Patsy
Rodenburg
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Elevated Text Workshops: Louis
Sheeder, Shane Ann Younts, Robert Neff Williams
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