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Directing 

Triumph of Love

Triumph of Love

February 2024•Denver•Director

So Your Mom and Dad Broke Up

So Your Mom and Dad Broke Up

June 2024•Denver•Producer & Co-Director Photo by Kalen Jesse (https://www.kalenjesse.com/)

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

August 2018•Denver•Director

Maria Ornata

Maria Ornata

August 2017•Edinburgh Fringe•Director

Labarin

Labarin

May 2017•Bali•Director

good friday

good friday

September 2017•London•Director

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror

August 2016•London•Director

The North Pool

The North Pool

July 2016•London•Assistant Director

Into The Dark

Into The Dark

March 2016•London•Assistant Director

A Telephone Call

A Telephone Call

August 2018•Denver•Director

Triumph of Love

Triumph of Love

February 2024•Denver•Director

Sorry, Wrong Number

Sorry, Wrong Number

August 2018•Denver•Director

Maria Ornata

Maria Ornata

August 2017•Edinburgh Fringe•Director

Maria Ornata

Maria Ornata

August 2017•Edinburgh Fringe•Director

Maria Ornata

Maria Ornata

August 2017•Edinburgh Fringe•Director

Claire

Claire

April 2017•London•Co-Director

Labarin

Labarin

May 2017•Bali•Director

Labarin

Labarin

May 2017•Bali•Director

Triumph of Love

Triumph of Love

February 2024•Denver•Director

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror

August 2016•London•Director

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror

August 2016•London•Director

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror

August 2016•London•Director

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror

August 2016•London•Director

The North Pool

The North Pool

July 2016•London•Assistant Director

The North Pool

The North Pool

July 2016•London•Assistant Director

The North Pool

The North Pool

July 2016•London•Assistant Director

The North Pool

The North Pool

July 2016•London•Assistant Director

The North Pool

The North Pool

July 2016•London•Assistant Director

The North Pool

The North Pool

July 2016•London•Assistant Director

The Country Wife

The Country Wife

June 2016•London•Assistant Director

The Country Wife

The Country Wife

June 2016•London•Assistant Director

Into The Dark

Into The Dark

March 2016•London•Assistant Director

Into The Dark

Into The Dark

March 2016•London•Assistant Director

Into The Dark

Into The Dark

March 2016•London•Assistant Director

Into The Dark

Into The Dark

March 2016•London•Assistant Director

Home: A Festival of Storytelling

Home: A Festival of Storytelling

April 2015•Chicago•Director

Home: A Festival of Storytelling

Home: A Festival of Storytelling

April 2015•Chicago•Director

Home: A Festival of Storytelling

Home: A Festival of Storytelling

April 2015•Chicago•Director

Home: A Festival of Storytelling

Home: A Festival of Storytelling

April 2015•Chicago•Director

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

February 2015•Chicago•Director

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

February 2015•Chicago•Director

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

February 2015•Chicago•Director

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

February 2015•Chicago•Director

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

Whiskey Radio Hour: Presidents' Day

February 2015•Chicago•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Kimberly Akimbo

Kimberly Akimbo

September 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

All's Well That Ends Well

All's Well That Ends Well

October 2011•Fort Collins, CO•Director

La Voix Humaine

La Voix Humaine

November 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

La Voix Humaine

La Voix Humaine

November 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

La Voix Humaine

La Voix Humaine

November 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

La Voix Humaine

La Voix Humaine

November 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

La Voix Humaine

La Voix Humaine

November 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

La Voix Humaine

La Voix Humaine

November 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

La Voix Humaine

La Voix Humaine

November 2010•Fort Collins, CO•Director

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

December 2012•Barcelona•Assistant Director

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

December 2012•Barcelona•Assistant Director

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

December 2012•Barcelona•Assistant Director

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

December 2012•Barcelona•Assistant Director

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

December 2012•Barcelona•Assistant Director

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

December 2012•Barcelona•Assistant Director

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

December 2012•Barcelona•Assistant Director

Past Shows

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So Your Mom and Dad Broke Up: A (Not At All Misguided) Comfort Extravaganza!

Producer, Co-Director • 2024

A world premiere musical adaptation of a 1987 self-help VHS for children of divorce. Part of the 2024 Denver Fringe Festival.

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Triumph of Love

Director • 2024

A storefront musical at Wheat Ridge Theatre Company adapting the 18th century French farcical, gender-bending play.

PHOTOS

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CCTA: Lighting the Way

Producer, Director, Performer • 2019

Climate Change Theatre Action gathers 50 short plays from all over the world to address Climate Change and inspire us all to reduce carbon emissions. This immersive show took advantage of Colorado's iconic landscape and staged these plays at Lair o' the Bear Open Space Park near Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

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Mountains Made For Us

Assistant Director-Stage Manager • 2019

This Bollywood Rom-Com told the story of an Indian dancer falling in love with a Coloradan dispensary owner. The show involved choreographed dances to change scenes and casting local refugees and immigrants.

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Night and Fog

Director • 2019

Staged reading of a short play. A Holocaust survivor relives the night she traveled by train to smuggle information to Switzerland for the Resistance.

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Love's Labour's Lost

Director, Choreographer • 2019

A musical adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy. Produced and performed by engineering students at Colorado School of Mines.

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The Telephone Readings

Director • 2018

Dramatic Readings of "A Telephone Call" by Dorothy Parker & "Sorry, Wrong Number" by Lucille Fletcher. Being ghosted didn't start with texting, and these dramatic readings by female writers of the 1940s explore how even though our technology is completely different, some things never change.

PHOTOS

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good friday

Director • 2017

In academia’s hallowed halls, five women debate millennial feminism when gunshots shatter the safety of their discourse. As tweets stream across the campus feed, the body count grows. And then the shooter enters the classroom. At the intersection of gun violence, sexual violence, and slacktivism, in a #yesallwomen world, what is the real cost of revolution?

PHOTOS

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Maria Ornata

Director and Co-Producer • 2017

In this self-penned one man show,  Heaven and Earth have collided, leaving both mortals and deities lost in chaos. The Archangel Gabriel is the only one who can tell the tale of how it all came to pass.
Using lyrical language and embodying many characters, Gabriel reenacts how the Virgin Mary tried to save the Heavens from oblivion.

PHOTOS

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Claire

Co-Director • 2017

(Co-Directed with Daniela Atiencia) Claire is a little distracted. Her boyfriend Jake has invited his friend Bryce, who Claire hates, to their first Thanksgiving in a new city. She is so shaken up that her thoughts take on a body of their own. This workshop production of Emma Adler's play was done in collaboration between East 15 Acting School in London and The Harvard Advocate.

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Mirror Mirror

Director • 2016

In Robert Calvert's play set in the future, Eleanor Bryant has just bought a dress that adjusts colors to go along with her moods. However, when she checks how her husband will like the dress in her mirror that shows how others think of her, the image goes horribly wrong.

PHOTOS

WATCH

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The North Pool

Assistant Director • 2016

Rajiv Joseph's two-hander explores trust and lies as a meeting between an assistant principal and a student delves into what they are hiding under the surface.

PHOTOS

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The Country Wife

Assistant Director • 2016

This version of William Wycherley's Restoration comedy was reimagined in London in 1969.

PHOTOS

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Into the Dark

Assistant Director • 2016

In a reimagined sequel of Othello set in 1953, Iago has been thrown into a cell and contemplates why he has manipulated those around him into ruin.

PHOTOS

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Home: A Festival of Storytelling

Director • 2015

Four Chicago residents tell stories of what Home means to them, juxtaposing two stories of giving up the homes they always knew against two more about never being able to find one.

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Presidents' Day

Director • 2015

First segment of Whiskey Radio Hour Episode Eight. Two actors each portray three U.S. presidents (Abraham Lincoln, Richard Nixon, FDR, JFK, George H.W. Bush & George W. Bush) as they enjoy their day at Disneyland.

LISTEN

PHOTOS

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Las Bambalinas Paral•lel

Assistant Director • 2012

A play about the inner workings of a cabaret on La Avenida de Paral•lel in the early 1980s, and how it is affected by post-Franco Spanish government. Our independent production took on the challenge of combining the light-hearted cabaret numbers with surrealistic asides and moments of violent cruelty.

PHOTOS

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Durang/Durang

Director • 2012

As part of a festival of pieces by student directors, I chose to direct three comedy shorts by Christopher Durang. Casting two women and one man for the six roles, I combined "Naomi In The Living Room," "Woman Stand-Up," and "Funeral Parlor" under the theme of people who make others uncomfortable. 

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All's Well That Ends Well

Director, Script Adapter • 2011

Inspired by the comedy of miscommunication, an adapted and directed William Shakespeare's "All's Well That Ends Well" to the style of the sitcom "Arrested Development." With the use of projections of cutaways and text, as well as a narrator, audiences experienced both the old and the new styles in a different light.

PHOTOS

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La Voix Humaine

Director • 2010

In this trilingual adaptation of artist Jean Cocteau's one-woman play, the challenge was to convey the crazed heartbreak of a woman talking to her ex-lover not only in English, but also in French and Spanish.

PHOTOS

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Kimberly Akimbo

Director • 2010

In David Lindsay-Abaire's play, Kimberly Levaco has the body of a woman of seventy, but she is actually a sixteen year-old girl with a condition that makes her age rapidly. This student production involved a minimal set that represented many different locales and transforming a twenty year-old through makeup and performance into a teenager trapped in an elderly woman's body.

PHOTOS

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