In rehearsal / in production

I am facilitating a new workshop with the Redeeming Time Project this fall, while also participating in eldercare for my Mom, who is not doing well; I directed Much Ado about Nothing with the Guthrie BFA program at the University of Minnesota in Spring 2019.

In 2018, I taught a new women’s theatre course, which I call Top Girls, at Carleton College in Northfield, MN; I also directed Richard III for South Dakota Shakespeare.

In Fall 2017, I directed Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room at the University of Minnesota. In Fall 2016, I taught Women in Theatre at UMN; this is the fifth state in which I have worked as a guest lecturer at a university.

I founded the Redeeming Time Project in Minnesota. (Woo hoo!)

Our mission is to use Shakespeare to effect positive change. We leverage the theatrical arts to enable incarcerated and formerly incarcerated adults to develop social, cognitive, and life skills which they will need to reintegrate into the community.

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Between 2009-2017, I served as a facilitator, teacher and director with Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison north of New York City. In addition to collaborating with Jeff Glaser on his production of Starting Over in spring 2010, I have team-taught two directing workshops at the prison.  This spring, I have directed Tracy Letts’  Superior Donuts at Sing Sing; we performed the play for the population and for an invited civilian audience May 11,12 and 13, 2011.

Photo by Xavier Mascareñas

I invited actor Michael McKean, who created the role of Arthur at Steppenwolf and then on Broadway, to come speak to the men at Sing Sing.  You can read the article about his late April visit here and see additional photos of his visit here.  You can read the post I wrote for 2am theatre here.