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ARTS LEADERSHIP

  • Co-Artistic Producer
  • ARC
  • 2021-Present
  • Associate Artistic Director
  • Thousand Islands Playhouse
  • 2014-2017
  • Associate Artistic Producer
  • Theatre Passe Muraille
  • 2011-2015
  • Artistic Producer
  • Paprika Festival
  • 2009-2013
  • Education Manager
  • Canadian Stage Company
  • 2008-2011

RESIDENCIES & AWARDS

  • Neil Munro Directing Intern
  • Shaw Festival
  • 2021
  • Artist-in-Residence
  • NotaBle Acts Festival
  • 2019
  • RBC Intern Director
  • Acting Upstage Company 
  • 2016/17
  • Resident Artist Educator 
  • Young People’s Theatre
  • 2015/16; 2016/17
  • Storefront Theatre Playwright’s Unit 
  • Facilitated by Emma Mackenzie Hillier
  • 2015-2016
  • Outstanding New Musical (Nomination)
  • Dora Mavor Moore Awards
  • 2014
  • Stratford Festival Playwright’s Retreat
  • Facilitated by Bob White 
  • 2014
  • Professional Theatre Training Program
  • Theatre Ontario
  • 2014, with Ashlie Corcoran
  • Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Award
  • Ontario Region
  • 2002

TEACHING AND ADJUDICATION

  • Jury Member: Dora Mavor Moore Awards
  • Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
  • 2013-14 (Independent); 2018-19 (Musical Theatre)
  • Course Instructor: Foundations of Arts Education
  • Centennial College
  • 2018
  • Course Instructor: Introduction to Playwriting, New Play Development
  • Humber College
  • 2018-present
  • Course Instructor: Cabaret
  • Randolph College for the Performing Arts
  • 2017
  • Professional Development Guest Artist 
  • Toronto, York, and Peel School Boards
  • 2011-present
  • Drama Festival Adjudicator 
  • Sears Ontario Drama Festival/ NTS Ontario Drama Festival
  • 2014/2016/2018
  • Various Workshops in Collective Creation, Playwriting, and Queer Perspectives in the Classroom
  • Council of Dramatic and Dance Educators Conference
  • 2010-present
  • Accessible Creation-Based Drama for Non-Actors
  • Art at the Heart: United Church of Canada Arts Conference
  • September 2012
  • Drama Festival Adjudicator
  • Council of Independent Schools
  • April 2012
  • The Influence of the Professional Arts
  • Canadian Symposium for Arts and Learning, CNAL
  • December 2010

TRAINING

  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
  • Queen’s University
  • Drama/Music
  • Bachelor of Education 
  • Queen’s University
  • Artist-in-Community Education
  • Musical Theatre Directing Masterclass
  • In Tune Festival
  • Instructor: Robert McQueen
  • Musical Theatre Masterclass
  • Festival of Ideas and Creation
  • Instructor: William Finn
  • Artist Educator in Communities and Schools Training Initiative
  • Canadian Stage
  • Various Instructors

PUBLISHED WORKS

  • Is It Small Enough? The Issue of Scale in Canadian Musical Theatre
  • Canadian Theatre Review, Volume 171
  • 2017
  • The Agony and Ecstasy of the Storefront Theatre Movement
  • Canadian Theatre Review, Volume 170
  • 2017
  • [the day I wasn’t]
  • Keeping Our Stories Alive: Volume 1
  • 2008

OTHER PROJECTS

  • Centennial College
  • Program Developer: Artist Education in Community Engagement
  • 2016-2018
  • Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition
  • Producer
  • 2016
  • Professional Arts Organizations Network for Education
  • Founding Board Member
  • 2010-2014
  • Songbook Series at Theatre Passe Muraille
  • Co-Creator & Facilitator
  • 2011-2019
  • hai [clin] Clinician Poetry Installation
  • Toronto Western Hospital
  • with Dr. Chase McMurren