stage director / SSDC

directing credits

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Juilliard School, New York, NY  2004

Private Lives by Noël Coward
Irish Classical Theatre Company, Buffalo, NY 2004

Execution of Justice by Emily Mann
Pioneer Theatre, Salt Lake City, UT 2004

Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
Royal National Theatre, UK National Tour 2003

The Taming of the Shrew  by William Shakespeare
North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly, MA 2003

As You Like It  by William Shakespeare
Playhouse on the Square, Memphis, TN  2001

Pieces by Zohar Tirosh
Blue Heron Arts Center, New York, NY  2000

Twelfth Night  by William Shakespeare
Otterbein College, Columbus, OH  2000

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, ME  1999

Cymbeline by William Shakespeare
Maine Shakespeare Festival, Bangor, ME 1999

China Hands by Scott Stein
Exiles Theatre Ltd., Northern Ireland 1998

Trapped by Amalie Flynn
Trinity College, Hartford, CT  1998

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
S.O.S. in the Park, Madison Park, New York, NY 1997

Slippery Elm developed by Kathleen Powers
Women's Project & Productions, New York, NY 1997

Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare
S.O.S. in the Park, Bryant Park, New York, NY 1996

Pidgin' Hole by Linda Faigao-Hall
Women's Project & Productions, New York, NY 1996

Little Bites by Pippin Parker
Alice's Fourth Floor, New York, NY 1996

The Voice of the Turtle by John van Druten
Westside Repertory Theatre, New York, NY  1996

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball
Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Storrs, CT  1995

Aladdin adapted by K. Powers/M. Lauricella
Penny Bridge Players, Brooklyn, NY  1995

Fanny's First Play by George Bernard Shaw
Westside Repertory Theatre, New York, NY  1995

Post Mortem by Jennifer Christman
New Perspectives Theatre Co., New York, NY 1994

Beirut by Alan Bowne
Hangar Theatre Lab Company, Ithaca, NY 1992

residencies, awards, affiliations

Fulbright Scholar, 2001-2002

Member, Professional Directors' Company at Tisch School of the Arts Dramatic Writing Program

Directing Assistant, McCarter Theatre 1998-99 Season

Producer & Founding Artistic Director
Some Other Shakespeare (S.O.S.)

Member — Directors' Forum 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
Women's Project & Productions

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
SDC Foundation Observership with Barry Edelstein
New York Shakespeare Festival  2000

Electra by Sophocles
Assistant Director to David Leveaux
Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, NY 1998

The Stonemason by Cormac McCarthy [Workshop]
Assistant Director to Emily Mann
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ  1999

Design for Living by Nöel Coward
Assistant Director to Stephen Wadsworth
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ  1999

The Learned Ladies by Moliere
Assistant Director to Daniel Fish
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ  1999

Two Sisters and a Piano by Nilo Cruz
Assistant Director to Brian Kulick
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ  1999

Portia Coughlan by Marina Carr
Assistant Director to Blanka Zizka
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ  1999

A Christmas Carol adapted by David Thompson
Assistant Director to Michael Unger
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ  1998

Meshugah by Emily Mann
Assistant Director to Emily Mann
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ  1998

Electra by Sophocles
Assistant Director to David Leveaux
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ  1998

A . . . My Name Is Still Alice
Assistant to Julianne Boyd and Joan Micklin Silver
Second Stage Theatre, New York, NY  1992

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
Assistant Director to Erica Gould
Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY  1992

education

M.A. in Shakespeare, with Distinction
Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-upon-Avon
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England

Exiles Theatre Ltd.
Professional Training Programme
University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

B.A. with Honors in Theatre & Dance
Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Thesis:  Voices in the Struggle:  Lady Gregory and Anne Devlin as Writers of Political Theatre
Advisors:  Josh Karter and Katharine Power

Department of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University
Major:  Directing
Studied with Barbara McKenzie-Wood and Arthur Giron