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Teaching Artist

I believe that teaching is one of the most beautiful and sacred acts an artist can perform. My teaching focuses on developing theatrical and practical skills, along with developing healthy and positive mindsets in a welcoming, inclusive, and passionate environment.

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ASC Theatre Camp 2024

In the Summer of 2024 I served as the Team Fight Captain for the American Shakespeare Center's month long sleep away theatre camp. During this time I helped organize and schedule daily camp activities, each workshops on stage combat and puppetry, choreograph the stage combat for both full productions of Troilus and Cressida and Comedy of Errors, direct and coordinate the Showcase Performance, and overall keeping track of campers and ensuring they were healthy and happy

ASC Theatre Camp 2025

Coming Soon!

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Teaching Focus: Stage Combat

I teach Stage combat from a storytelling, safety focused mindset. By understanding the context of the combat in the story we are trying to tell, I can work with actors from where their are in their stage combat journey to break a moment of combat down phrase by phrase. By meeting actors at their experience level, I can use my knowledge and experience to work with them to craft a compelling, character-driven moment of combat.

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Teaching Focus: Puppetry

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Pulling from my own professional experience and movement and storytelling theory, I teach the art of puppetry. Through technique and creativity I aim to teach students to use focus, distinct movement, and breathwork to bring puppets to life and make them distinct characters .

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