CHAIR & PROFESSOR
Theatre Arts Department
California State University, Long Beach, 2016-2020
  • Led a department of over 230 undergraduate and 30 graduate students, with three BA programs (a general BA, a technical theatre BA and a BA in Performance) and three MFA programs (in Acting, Design and Theatre Management)
  • Our department was ranked number 12 among the top 25 BA theatre programsin the US.
  • Teach the undergraduate students and graduate acting students
  • Reworked the general BA curriculum, adding classes in collaboration and dramaturgy; worked with the Performance Faculty to change our BA in Performance to a BFA in Acting (launching Fall ’20)
  • Artistic Director of California Repertory Company (Cal Rep): directing shows each year; and overseeing the work of the guest directors

HEAD OF ACTING
National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Sydney, Australia, 2012-2016
  • Led the Acting Department of Australia’s preeminent drama school
  • One of top 25 drama schools in the world - alumni Cate Blanchett, Baz Luhrmann, Judy Davis, Mel Gibson, Hugo Weaving
  • Oversaw and managed curriculum and schedule of the three-year undergraduate course (70+ students total)
  • Taught full-time the undergraduate actors; taught part-time the graduate directing students:
  • Acting Fundamentals; Acting: Modern Drama; Acting: Contemporary Drama; Acting: Greek Drama; Acting: Avant-Garde Drama
  • Devising/Directing Workshop & Intensive
  • Viewpoints for Actors; Viewpoints for Directors (graduate students)
  • Unplugged (Showcase); Audition Workshops
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
National Theater Institute (NTI), Waterford, CT, 2008-2012
  • Led the theatre training program of the Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
  • Designed the curriculum of its five college credit-earning programs
  • Hired and supervised a roster of 30 teachers
  • Taught full-time: weekly core classes for NTI’s undergraduate and pre-graduate courses:
  • Acting
  • Directing; Advanced Directing
  • Viewpoints/Collaboration
  • New Play Development
  • Monologues/Auditioning

GUEST ARTIST/LECTURER
From 1997-2014
Taught acting and movement workshops, from one-day workshops to intensive week-long residencies:
Internationally
Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
APB Conference, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 
United States
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Brooklyn College
Brown University
Colgate University
CUNY’s Graduate Center
Dowling College
Fairfield University
Florida State University
Fordham University at Lincoln Center
Illinois Wesleyan University
Manhattanville College
Mt. Holyoke College
The New School
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Rider University
SUNY Purchase College
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
University of Montevallo
Williams College
Yale University