Education
2011 MFA in Directing, The Actors Studio Drama School, Pace University
2000 BA, University of Houston
Trainings
2019 SITI Summer Intensive
Directing Work
Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu, Rec Room, Houston, Regional Premiere
My Mother’s G.E.M.S., Irondale Ensemble Project, New York*
We Are Not Depressed by Ayasha Sampson, South Oxford Space, New York* The Dutchman by Leroi Jones, Dance New Amsterdam, New York
Starfishes by Michael Ross Albert, Dance New Amsterdam, New York* Springtime by Maria Irene Fornes, Dance New Amsterdam, New York
How Sweet by Michael Ross Albert, The Tank Theatre, New York*
One Journey by Yadira De La Riva, Theatre Lab, New York*
*New and original works
Educational Directing Work
The Color Purple, book by Marsha Norman and music and lyrics by Brenda Russell,
Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, Kinder HSPVA
Tartuffe by Moliere, Kinder HSPVA
The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, Kinder HSPVA
(anon)ymous by Naomi Iizuka, Kinder HSPVA
Fela! the Musical by Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis, Kinder HSPVA
Baltimore by Kirsten Greenidge, Kinder HSPVA
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, HSPVA
The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe, HSPVA
Staged Readings
Glass by Azure Osborne Lee, Keep Soul Alive Reading Series at The National Black Theatre, New York
Mirrors by Azure Osborne Lee, Freedom Train Productions, New York
Woman to Woman by Ayanna Maia, Freedom Train Productions, New York
Assistant Director
The Syringa Tree Directed by Steve Pacek, Theatre Horizon, Philadelphia
Devised Works
Rotten Peaches (collaborative performance with Autumn Knight) at Alabama Song, Houston
Assistant Sound Design
Body of an American Directed by Michael John Garces, Wilma Theatre, Sound Design by Robert Kaplowitz, Philadelphia
Teaching Experience
The High School for Performing and Visual Arts, current
Revere Middle School 2015-2107
La Cima Elementary Charter School, 2011-2013
Bardoli Global Scholars Program /American Youth Leadership Program, 2012-2013
Achievement First Charter School Crown Heights, 2007-2008
Grand Concourse Academy, 2006-2007
PS 7 Samuel Stern, 2005-2006
Hartsfield Elementary, 2002-2005
Workshops
2014 Material Histories Mixtape, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
Lectures
2015 The Eugene Howard Lecture Series-ANDRODGYNY: Blurring the Binary Aesthetic