EDUCATION

            2014                        MFA in Creative Writing - Writing for Stage and Screen, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

            1996                        BA in Theatre Studies/Acting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

            Teaching

            2011  to Present

                                     Faculty, Theatre

                                                School of the Arts, Dean College, Franklin, MA

                                                Courses taught:

                                                               Directing

                                                               Senior Capstone

                                                            Auditioning and Interviewing

                                                            Acting II

                                                                   Acting III (Shakespeare)

                                                                           Acting IV (Acting for the Camera)

                                                            Playwriting

                                             Speech and Articulation

                                                            Discover the Arts

                                                            Introduction to Theatre

                                                            Freshman Foundation Project

 

            Acting – Off-Broadway

                        Astor Theatre, New York, NY; Charles Theatre, Boston, MA—6 years

                                                •Blue Man Group, Role: Blue Man, Directors: Wink/Stanton/Goldman           

 

            Acting – Regional Theatre

                        Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT

                                                •Camino Real, Role: Guard/Ensemble, Director: Michael Wilson

                                                •A Christmas Carol, Role: Swing/Understudy, Director: Michael Wilson

                                                •Rough Crossing, Role: Ensemble/Understudy, Director: Tracy Brigden

                        Market Theatre, Cambridge, MA

                                                •The Square Root of Minus One, Role: Stull (originated role), Director: Steve Cosson

                        North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, MA

                                                •Macbeth, Role: Young Siward/Murderer (fight captain), Director: Craig Foley

                        Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Storrs, CT

                                                •Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Role: Charles Dabernow Schmendiman,

                                                            Director: Victoria Bussert

                                                •The Three Musketeers, Role: Aramis (fight captain), Director: Michael Montel

                                                •Into the Woods, Role: Jack, Director: Michael Montel

                                                •Fiddler on the Roof, Role: Fyedka, Director: Michael Montel

                                                •Biloxi Blues, Role: Hennesey, Director: Nafe Katter

                                                •Grapes of Wrath, Role: Connie/Narrator/Ensemble, Director: Eric Hill

                                                •Man of La Mancha, Role: Muleteer (fight captain), Director: Gary English

                                                            (winner of Connecticut Outer Critics Award for Best Musical)

                                                •Big River, Role: Ben Rogers/Andy, Director: Peter Westerhoff

                                                •Anything Goes, Role: Sailor (quartet), Director: Peter Westerhoff

                                                •Pirates of Penzance, Role: Pirate/Cop, Director: Peter Westerhoff

                                                •Cabaret, Role: Chorus/Kit Kat Band, Director: Peter Westerhoff

                                                •A Funny Thing…, Role: Protean, Director: Peter Bennett

                                                •South Pacific, Role: Cable (understudy)/Sailor, Director: Keith Grant

                                                •The Art of Dining, Role: Paul, Director: Ellen Brodie

                                                •The Winter’s Tale, Role: Florizel, Director: Ellen Brodie

                                   

            Directing

                        Dean College, Franklin, MA

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

• The Crucible

• In The Heights

• Cabaret

• Almost, Maine

• The Boys Next Door

• Noises Off  (Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival award for Best Comedic Choreography) 

• Moony's Kid Don't Cry

• Camino Real (Block VII)

                        Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

• The Late Henry Moss

• Jacques Brel is Alive... (Assist. Dir.

                        Tolland Theatre, Tolland, CT (director, producer)

• Words, Words, Words

• The Still Alarm

• Bed & Breakfast

• Guest of Honor

• DMV Tyrant

• The Philadelphia

• Teeth

• Cliché

• Chain Letter

• Railing at Uptown

                         Narragansett High School, Narragansett, RI

• Six by Ten, An Evening of 10-Minute Plays

 

            Fight Directing

                        Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT

                                                •The Trip to Bountiful, Director: Michael Wilson

                        Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

                                                •Last Days of High Flier, Director: Dale McFadden

                                                •Romeo and Juliet, Director: Murray McGibbon

                                                •The Late Henry Moss, Director: Matthew Greene

                        Hartt School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

                                                •Ragtime, Director: Rob Ruggiero

                                                •West Side Story, Director: Rob Ruggiero

                                                •The Rivals, Director: Henry Fonte

                        TheatreWorks, Hartford, CT

                                                •The Credeaux Canvas, Director: Rob Ruggiero

                   Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Storrs, CT

                                                •Angels in America: Perestroika, Director: Leah C. Gardine

                                                •The Boys Next Door, Director: Jerry Krasser

                                                •West Side Story (assistant), Director: Gary English

                        Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT

                                                •Life is a Dream, Director: David Pellegrine

                        Hartford Children’s Theatre, Hartford, CT

                                                •Romeo and Juliet, Director: Richard Stanton

                        Kid’s Company, Storrs, CT

                                                •Cinderella, Director: Lenore Grunko

                        Phoenix Visions

                                                •Harassment 2 (educational video), Director: Jerry Krasser

 

            Scriptwriting

                        Feature Length Screenplays

                                                •Son of Valor

                                                •The American Dream

                                                •Taped

                                                •In Deep

                                                •Taken Down

                                                •Fortune’s Crossing

                                                •The Long Road to Light

                        Short Screenplays

                                                •Silenzio

                                                •Father to Father

                                                •60” Assassin

                        Stage Plays

• CHOKE

• 160 Miles North

• The Architect

• god in a 747 (10 Minute)

• The Heist (10 Minute)

• Betta Fish (10 Minute)

• The Child (10 minute)

• Rattlesnake Suitcase (1 Act)

• One Cold Night (10 minute)

• A Midnight Clear (stage adaptation)

• The Mark of Zorro (stage adaptation)

 

            Workshops Presented

                        Stage Combat

                                                •Eastern Connecticut State University

                                                •American Stage Festival

                                                •J. F. K. Shakespeare Festival

                                                •New England Drama Festival

                                                •Hartford Children’s Theatre

                                                •Hall Memorial School

                                                •Greater Mansfield Council for the Arts

 

 

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENT

  Examiners Award for Excellence, Society of American Fight Directors (broadsword, sword and shield,            rapier and dagger, unarmed combat, quarterstaff)

            Advanced Actor/Combatant, Society of American Fight Directors

            Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, under Royce Gracie

            Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), National Strength and Conditioning Association

            Quarterfinalist, Writer’s Network Screenplay Competition, 2007, for The American Dream

           

 

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

            Acting: Nafe Katter, Ron Palillo, Charles Moore, Robert MacDonald

            Stage Combat: J. Allen Suddeth, Robert Walsh, Mark Olsen

            Drums: Frank Giguer (jazz, rock, fusion, funk—13 years)

            Dialects: David Alan Stern (British, Down East, Irish, Southern)

            Voice: Susan Quigley Duggan

            Dance/Movement: Jean Sabatine, Peter Pucci, Alyson Portelance

            Mime: Rand Whipple

       Playwriting & Screenwriting: Ronan Noone, Jami Brandli, Kate Snodgrass, Sinan Unel, Barry Brodsky