Training and Education

Intimacy:

*Certification Pending, Intimacy Directors and Coordinators

Intimacy Directors and Coordinators: Alicia Rodis, Claire Warden, Adam Noble, Ashley White, Tonia Sina, Samantha McDonald, Sasha Smith, Samantha Kaufman, Colleen Hughes, Charlie Baker, Dan Granke, Jessica Steinrock, Marcus Watson, and Doug Scholz-Carlson

Theatrical Intimacy Education: Chelsea Pace, Laura Rikard, and Kaja Dunn

Intimacy for Stage and Screen: Lizzie Talbot and Lucy Fennell

Rehearsal Observations:

Adam Noble, Intimacy Director, Sow and Suckling and Not Omaha, UT New Theatre, University of Texas at Austin, 2020

Doug Scholz-Carlson, Intimacy Director, Romeo and Juliet, Opera San Antonio, and Sweeney Todd, Austin Opera.

Movement:

Michael Chekhov Technique: Joanna Merlin, Dawn Arnold, Craig Mathers, Sol Garre, Sarah Kane, Ragnar Freidank, Marjolein Baars, Fern Sloan, Jessica Cerullo, Anne Gottlieb, and Mala Powers

Stage Combat: Adam Noble, Sam Kahn, Dan Granke, Toby Minor, Da'Mon Stith, Amie Root, Ashley White, H. Russ. Brown, Geoff Kent, Samantha Kaufman, Jack Young, Brian Byrnes, A. Ray, and Caitlyn Herzlinger

Laban/Bartenieff Fundamentals: Lindsey Hanahan (Denver Center Theatre)

Alexander Technique: Nada Dianchenko

Clowning: Manon Beaudoin and Marjolein Baars

Theatre of the Oppressed: Augusto Boal and Julian Boal

 Allied Training:  

  • Mental Health First Aid, Mental Health First AID USA/Integral Care, Austin, TX, 2020

  • Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Artists, Transgender Training Institute, Maybe Burke

  • Anti-Racist Theatre, Nicole Brewer

  • Foundations in Race, Intimacy, and Consent and Race and Choreography, TIE, Kaja Dunn

  • Undoing Implicit Bias, Hollaback!,

  • Trauma-Informed Practices, TIE

  • Title IX Training (Sexual Harassment and Bias Recognition Training), The University of Texas at Austin

  • Talking About the Body: Using Language to Affirm and Empower (Allyship Training), IDC, Rachel Flesher, and Charlie Baker

  • De-escalating Conflict, Asian Americans Advancing Justice and Hollaback!

  • Bystander Intervention Training to Stop Anti-Asian and Xenophobic Harassment, Asian Americans Advancing Justice and Hollaback!

Memberships:

Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Associate

Women in Film and Television, Austin

Association of Theatre Movement Professionals - ATME

Michael Chekhov Association - MICHA

Lincoln Center Directors Lab, NY and Chicago

Degrees:

Ph.D., Theatre, University of Colorado, Boulder

Dissertation: Director Evald Schorm: Subversion of Classic Theatre Texts as a Means of Political Dissent in the Czech Lands

M.A. Theatre (Directing Focus), Miami University, Ohio

B.A. Psychology, Purdue University, Indianapolis

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