Directing
Past Shows

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.

Triumph of Love
Director • 2024
A storefront musical at Wheat Ridge Theatre Company adapting the 18th century French farcical, gender-bending play.
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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.

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.

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.

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.
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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?
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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.
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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.

Mirror Mirror
Director • 2016

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.
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The Country Wife
Assistant Director • 2016

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.
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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.

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.
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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.

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.
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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.
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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.
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