Bio

I am…

  • a doctoral candidate working on a degree in Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

  • a scholar of the English early modern period, with emphasis on performance behaviors and religion in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

  • a teaching assistant/associate, director, intimacy director, and dramaturg in my department at UCSB

  • a playwright, director, intimacy director, and former Artistic Director with The Public Domain Players

  • a former middle and high school English teacher with credentials in grades 7 through 12

  • a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and California State University, Northridge

  • a former actor, singer, and dancer

  • a director with UCSB/Isla Vista’s ‘Not Necessarily Shakespeare in the Park’

  • a director with 14/48 Hollywood

  • a reviewer for Boston College’s Religion and the Arts and UCLA’s Comitatus

  • a recipient of the Individualized Professional Skills grant, the Regents fellowship, and other departmental fellowships and university grants at UCSB