Teaching Philosophy

Theatre demonstrates that telling stories about our world can transform it.  Whether in a college classroom or a rural village community center, my teaching reflects a firm belief in Paulo Freire’s ‘problem-posing’ methodology, where students and teacher engage in in a genuine dialectic to address proposed problems. The classroom then becomes a place of collaborative learning that equips and excites students to participate as artist-citizens in the world. 

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What I Teach

Acting I and II, Theatre Survey, Directing, Playwriting, Political Theatre and Social Change, Studies in Women Playwrights/Women’s Roles, Devising, World Theatre, Bilingual Playwriting, Embodied Literature, and Latin American Theatre.  

Workshops

In addition to college courses, I lead workshops around a variety of topics.  Past workshops have included: Devising, Myth Adaptation, Acting, Theater and Gender-Based Violence, Theater and Place, Improvisation, Text and Movement.  
​Workshops can be created and designed in collaboration with other practitioners and around almost any topic that incorporates group dialogue.