EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Theater (Acting) Bachelor of Arts in English (Cum Laude)
Brooklyn College, City University of NY (1989) Queens College, City University of NY
(1986)Eighteen Graduate Hours–English
Georgia Southwestern State University (2004) and Georgia Southern (2011)
Actor Training: HB Studios, Stella Adler Conservatory, New York City (1981-1986)
TEACHING_and ADMINISTRATION
Associate Professor of Theatre, Fine Arts Division Coordinator, Director of Theatre Program, Andrew College (Tenured Faculty as of 2021)
- Administer budgets, curriculum schedules, evaluate faculty, generate Fine Arts Division reports, teach all Theatre courses, direct two-three productions yearly.
- Supervise student worker technical crew of the theater.
- Responsible for maintenance of historic theatre, including the theatre’s lighting and sound systems.
- Oversee the recruitment, advisement, and retention of majors.
- Serve as the advisor of recently reestablished chapter of Delta Psi Omega.
- Created the master courses for Theatre Appreciation and English Composition II, fully online via Canvas.
- Teach English courses as needed by Humanities Division.
Assistant Professor of Theatre, Interim Theatre Facilities Manager, College of Arts and Humanities, Albany State University (2016-August 2017)
Administered budgets, curriculum schedules, assessment, monthly and annual reports. Teach all Theatre courses, direct two-three productions yearly. Taught English courses.
- Supervised student worker technical crew of the theater.
- Responsible for continued upgrades of the Theatre’s Lighting system.
- Managed the maintenance, operation, booking and running of all events in the Theatre, including rentals by outside agencies.
- Oversaw the recruitment and retention of majors.
- Served as the Advisor for the Campus Players and Delta Psi Omega
Assistant Professor of Theatre, Theatre Program Coordinator, Humanities Division Darton State College (2008-2016)
Administer budgets, curriculum schedules, assessment, monthly and annual reports. Teach all Theatre courses, direct one-three productions yearly. Teach Humanities through the Arts, English Composition, Technical Theatre for Dance, First Year Experience and World Literature as needed.
- Supervised student worker technical crew of the theater.
- Reactivated and advised Delta Psi Omega Chapter
- Served as the theater’s Technical Director and Facilities Manager (2008-2013, 2016)
- Oversight of the recruitment and retention of majors
- Created online and hybrid sections of THEA 1100
Teacher, Deerfield-Windsor School, Albany, GA (2004-2008)
- Taught 8th Grade Literature, 11th Grade Literature, and Performing Arts
- One Act Play Director
- One AAA State Championship, 2005
- Four Region 1AAA Championships
- Literary Coordinator and coach of Oral Interpretation
- Served as Leadership Team member of the Southwest Georgia Writing Project.
Teacher, Americus High School, Americus, GA (2001-2004)
- Taught 9th Grade English, 11th Grade English, and Theatre
- One Act Play Director
- One Region Championship, 2001
After-School Instructor, MCLB-Albany, (1999-2000)
- Theater Teacher, grades 2-6, daycare center, Marine Base.
Upward Bound Instructor, Georgia Southwestern University (1999-2000)
- Part-time, summer, instructor of Theater
Adjunct Instructor (Theatre, Speech, and English), University of Nebraska-Kearney (1990-1999)
Summary of Demonstrated Teaching Competencies: Acting, Improvisation, Theatre Appreciation, Introduction to Performance Studies, Oral Interpretation, Script Analysis, Voice and Diction, American Literature, English Composition, World Literature, Public Speaking, Creative Writing, University or College 1000, Humanities through the Arts, Introduction to Technical Theatre/Stagecraft.
AWARDS
Vulcan Materials Teaching Excellence Award, 2023 Andrew College
John H Woodall Award for Excellence in Teaching 2022 Andrew College
Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Award 2016
Awarded by GALILEO, University System of Georgia, for the transformation of THEA 1100 using Open Educational Resources.
Exemplary Support of Educational Theatre
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the American College Theatre Festival, 2015 and 2013.
Outstanding Employee
Student Services Special Recognition, Darton State College, 2011
Meritorious Achievement Awards
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the American College Theatre Festival Region IV
Acting—Driving Miss Daisy 2022
Directing—The Good Doctor 2018
Directing–Dead Man’s Cell Phone 2011
Directing–A Midsummer Night’s Dream 2010
CREATIVE ACTIVITY – ACTING_______________
Film (in post-production)
The Delilah Factor Julia Ward Howe Dream of Drea LLC.
Television
Safe Aire Local Spot WALB
Regional
Of Princes and Kings Mistress Quickly Rylander Partnership (collaboration with Georgia Southwestern State University & Darton State College)
National Tour Ensemble Member Shoestring Players
Artist in Residence
Wit Vivian Bearing Georgia Southwestern State
Good Mother U. of Nebraska/Kearney
Community Theater
Dixie Swim Club Dinah Grayson Theatre Albany
College/University
Driving Miss Daisy Daisy Andrew College
Bad Company Babbara Yagarian
Back Lot Badinage and Steel Lidi Murfi Andrew College/Southwest Georgia Ensemble Theatre Collaboration
Steel Magnolias M’Lynn Andrew College
The Vagina Monologues Ensemble Albany State University
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
The Elephant Man Mrs. Kendall dir. Samuel Leiter
The Country Wife Lucy dir. Margaret Linney
Brooklyn College
Savage in Limbo Denise Savage Thesis Role
Colden Center for the Perf. Arts
The Physicists Rose
Les Belle Soeurs Des Neiges dir. Susan Einhorn
You’re a Good Man,
Charlie Brown Sally
Queens College
The Glass Menagerie Amanda
Gemini Judith
The Norman Conquests Annie
The Night of January 16th Karen Andre
CREATIVE ACTIVITY – DIRECTING/PRODUCING________________________________
Regional
Bad Company (co-author and co-director)
Backlot Badinage and Steel (co-author & co-director) Andrew College/SWGA Ensemble Theatre
Of Princes & Kings (A.D., co-producer) Rylander Partnership Productions
Coyote Tales Great Platte River Playwrights Festival
Aglets and Grommets
College/University
“Coyote Tales” (Devised Children’s Theatre Work-KCACTF4 Associate Production)
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol (KCACTF4 Associate Production)
Cuthbert Speaks (KCACTF 4 Associate Production) Andrew College
“Trifles” (Directed and produced on Zoom, during pandemic)
Almost, Maine (KCACTF 4 Associate Production)
Laundry and Bourbon
Murder on the Square: Murder on Set (original Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre)
Steel Magnolias (KCACTF Region IV Associate Production )
The Andrew College Shakespeare Project
Murder on the Square: The Sorry Sisters (originalMurder Mystery Dinner Theatre)
The Good Doctor (KC/ACTF Region IV Associate Production)
Noir Pointblank (Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Scholarship Fundraiser) Albany State U.
Our Town (KC/ACTF Region IV Associate Production) Darton State College
All in the Timing
Murder at Rutherford House (Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Scholarship Fundraiser)
A Lesson Before Dying (KC/ACTF 4 Associate Production)
Murderous Crossing (Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Scholarship Fundraiser)
Taming of the Shrew
The Wizard of Oz
Noir Suspicions (Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Scholarship Fundraiser)
Crimes of the Heart (KC/ACTF Region IV Associate Production)
As You Like It (Outdoor Shakespeare)
Boardwalk Melody Hour Murders (Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Scholarship Fundraiser)
Dead Man’s Cell Phone ((KC/ACTF 4 Associate Production)
Café Noir (Murder Mystery Dinner Theater Scholarship Fundraiser)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream ((KC/ACTF 4 Associate Production)
Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters
The Gifts of the Magi (Musical) ((KC/ACTF 4 Associate Production)
Godspell
Freedom Day: An Evening of One Acts (The Rising of the Moon, The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year and The Case of the Crushed Petunias)
University of Nebraska-Kearney
The Glass Menagerie
Willa
The Children’s Hair Turned White (Held for consideration for KCACTF Regional Festival)
GRANTS
- Co-author of Round Three Affordable Learning Georgia Grant Proposal, Awarded Textbook Transformation Grant June 2015. Created a THEA 1100 (Theatre Appreciation) course transformation from publisher textbook to fully Open Educational Resources (OER).
- Co-author of Round Two Affordable Learning Grant Proposal, December 2014
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY – American College Theater Festival Responses___
University of Georgia, March 2024
Dog Sees God
Troy University, March 2024
Junie B. Jones, “Toothless Wonder”
Columbus State University, January 2024
Once
Reinhardt University, April 2023
Last Stop on Market Street
Columbus State University, January 2023
Oliver Twist
Reinhardt University February 2022
Cows Don’t Fly
Columbus State University, March, 2022
Our Town
Georgia Southern University, March 2022
Pipeline
Columbus State University, November 2021
Last Night and the Night Before
College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C., Feb 2020
Spark
College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C., Feb 2020
Truth & Other Lies
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, Feb. 2020
Gorges Motel
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA, Sept. 2019
Old Dry Frye
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA Sept. 2018
Godspell
University of West GA, Sept. 2017
Into the Woods
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA Nov. 2016
Pinkalicious—the Musical
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA Sept. 2016
Mr. Burns- A Post Electric Play
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA Nov. 2014
Power Plays
Wesleyan University, April 2014
A Streetcar Named Desire
Albany State University, October 2013
Sideman
Albany State University, Dec. 2012
Amadeus
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA , Nov. 2012
I Neighborhood 3, Requisition of Doom
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA Feb. 2012
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA Sept. 2011
Pride and Prejudice
Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA Feb 2011
Charlotte’s Web
Columbus State University, Columbus, GA Jan. 2011
SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY – State Panels/Colloquia/Conferences
“Graveyards & Mysteries: Small College Performance” Southeastern Theatre Conference, March 2023
“Impro!” Georgia Theatre Conference, October 2019
OERS, GA View, and Small Groups: Engaged hybrid learning in THEA 1100
USG Teaching and Learning Conference, April 13, 2016
Acting With Status
Georgia Theater Conference, Columbus, GA Oct. 2014
Georgia Theater Conference, Statesboro, GA, Oct. 2011
Unfinished Business: Writing Monologues
Georgia Theater Conference, Savannah, GA Oct., 2010
Acting With Status
Georgia Theater Conference, Albany, GA Oct. 2008
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY__________________________
Fall 2022 “Quality Matters” Online Course Development Training
Fall 2020 “Using Dynamic Media Content” Canvas Training
Summer 2020 “Multi-Client Facilitating and Developing Courses in Canvas”
Summer 2020 Co-Requisite English Composition Workshop with Peter Gareis
February 2020 Region 4 Festival, KCACTF
February 2019 Region 4 Festival, KCACTF
February 2018 Region 4 Festival, KCACTF
April 2016 Conference:USG Teaching & Learning Conference, “Best Practices for Promoting Engaged Student Learning”
Summer 2011 Graduate Seminar 20th Century Poetry, Georgia Southern University
Fall 2011 Graduate Seminar Gothic Literature, Georgia Southern University
2009 Southeastern Theatre Conference
2009 Facilitating Learning Online, Darton College
2004-2008 Conference: National Council of Teachers of English
Affiliation: Georgia Theatre Conference (2008-present)
SERVICE_____________________________________________________
Co-Vice Chair of Region IV, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Current)
KCACTF Region IV Response Coordinator for Georgia (Current)
Play Reader for Jewish Play Project, 2022-2023
Andrew College Committees: Arts Round the Square Festival, Hiring, Music Faculty 2022, Honors/Awards Committee, Arts & Lecture Committee
Andrew College Faculty Secretary 2019-2021
Workshop Coordinator, Georgia Theatre Conference, October 2019
Partner Grant Review Panelist, Georgia Council of the Arts, 2018-2020
Faculty Directing Mentor, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 4 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Seminar Leader, Phi Theta Kappa Seminar Day, Spring 2020, 2022
One Act Play Judge, Georgia Christian School Association, Americus, GA Fall 2019
First Year Experience Task Force Member, Spring 2018
SEACT Dothan Theatre Festival Adjudicator, Fall 2018
New Student Orientation Task Force Member, Summer 2019 and 2020
Board Member, Albany Area Arts Council May 2016- August 2017
Consultant to the company of Fiddler on the Roof. Columbus State University, December, 2016.
Director, “A Knight to Remember” for the Albany Chorale Madrigal Dinner, Feb. 2015
Festival Co-Host, Region IV, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Feb, 2015
Program and Workshop Coordinator, Region IV, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Fall, 2015.
Program and Workshop Coordinator, Region IV, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Fall, 2014
Festival Host, Region IV, Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, Feb. 2013
Workshop Coordinator, Georgia Theatre Conference, October 2012
Secretary, Board of Directors, Georgia Theatre Conference, (2009-2013)
Site Coordinator, Georgia Theatre Conference,(Oct., 2008)
Site Coordinator, GISA State One Act Competition(Nov. 2008-2012)
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