I am a Associate Professor in the University of Denver’s Department of Theatre. I teach a rotation of courses including Stage Management, Production Management, Sound Design, Intergalactic Weapons Design (Advanced course in Properties), Technical Studio and Page to Stage. I also serve as the Technical Director and Production Manager for the Department, which includes planning and budgeting for Department shows, as well as supervising student crews during the construction process of each show.

My creative work since coming to DU has been varied- recently, I have been focusing on Technical Direction and entrereneurship, building an intership program that works with professional companies. I have had relationships as a lighting and sound designer with a select group of theaters, including Boulder Ensmble Theatre Company, Phamaly Theare Company, New Opera Workshop, Single Carrot Theatre Company in Baltimore MD, and 20 designs with the Little Theatre of the Rockies. 

Prior to coming to DU, I was a Senior Instructor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Colorado-Boulder. During my 16 years in Boulder, I held a bunch of different positions, growing in responsibility over time.  I was Tech Director, Marketing Director, Sound & Lighting Designer, Props Master and finally Production Manager for the Department.

I also spent 21 years as a company member at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, an AEA LORT theatre, and the third oldest Shakespeare Festival in the US. I started as an apprentice and ended up as Operations Manger, one of the key staff in the Festival. I continue designing for CSF, sound designing on 11 productions.

Professionally, I have worked for various companies in management, design and technical positions, including the Great River Shakespeare Festival, Paragon Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Curious Theatre Company, the Colorado Dance Festival and Rocky Mountain Revels.

Shifting Focus to Student Success

In Winter 2018 and 2019, we collaborated with Lamont Opera to build the sets for Il Trittico,  (2019) and The Magic Flute,  (2020) which is in storage, awaiting the end of the pandemic! Students collaborated on construction, paint and planning for both shows in the 1000-seat Gates Hall.

Also in Winter 2019-20, we returned to Parker Arts for a succesful partnership with Sasquatch for Matilda The Musical.

Summer 2019, TTIP collaborated with Sasquatch Productions and Parker Arts and Cultural Events (PACE) to present The Full Monty at PACE in Parker. The students collaborated with professional designers, built the show, and loaded it into the truck for assembly and technical rehearsals.

Summer 2018, we intitated the Tech Theatre Internship Program (TTIP) with a co-production of Reunion, in collaboaration with Off-Broadway producers Creative Endeavor Office. 

Summer 2017, I was the Lighting Designer for the Composer's Fellows Institute at the New Opera Workshop, hosted by CU-Boulder. CFI presented new, short opera works by new composers.

Summer 2016, I was the sound designer for Evita with Phamaly Theatre Company, cast entirely of performers with disabilities across the spectrum (physical, cognitive, emotional, blindness, deafness…etc.)

Summer 2015, I completed my fourth season as the Resident Sound Designer at Little Theatre of the Rockies. A classic Summer "Rep" theatre, they produce five fully-realized shows in nine weeks. That's 20 shows in 4 Summers (mostly musicals!).