Education/Training:
- University of Pittsburgh School of Education, Pittsburgh, PA
Bachelor of Science, graduated cum laude, August 1969 - Michael Chekov Intensive, Summer 2007
- Meisner intensive/fall2007
- Dialect and voice intensive/Cicely Berry/Patsy Rodenburg
- Scene study/Carla Belver
- Acting by Mistake/Bill Roudebush/molologue preparation
Experience:
- The Governor’s School of New Jersey at The College of New Jersey, Summer 2008, A Cicely Berry Shakespeare Workshop
- Moorestown Middle School, Moorestown, NJ, teaching character development and movement for the cast of Once on This Island
- The Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, PA, directing high school students, ages 13-18, on the performance of Bird of Prey
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, choreographing and working on character development for the cast of High School Musical
- The Governor’s School of New Jersey at The College of New Jersey, Summer 2007, A Cicely Berry Shakespeare Workshop, application for Twelfth Night and audition workshop
- Springville Elementary School, Mt. Laurel, NJ, January 2007, directing the second through fourth grade musical of 96 children, rehearsing for one week only and performing the Friday of that week
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, Fall 2006, workshop on Fosse choreography for the production of Pippin
- The Governor’s School of New Jersey at The College of New Jersey, Summer 2006, teaching a workshop on auditions and monologues
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, Winter 2006, teaching a Shakespeare text workshop for their performance of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
- Private Coaching and Group Acting and Singing Classes, Moorestown, NJ, teaching middle and high school students
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, Fall 2006, teaching a Sondheim musical theater workshop for the fall production of Into the Woods
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, September 2004 – June 2004, teaching full-time as the theater arts teacher and sophomore class advisor
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, Fall 2004, teaching a stage make-up elective to high school students
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, Fall 1995-Spring 2004, creating and implementing for the middle school students a Viola Spolin Theater Activities Program
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, 2000-2004, directing and choreographing the following middle school productions; Annie Jr., Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls Jr., and the full-length production of Peter Pan
- Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ, Fall 1991-Spring 1996, working in the lower school and creating original musicals with the third and fourth grade students
- Full-time Kindergarten Teacher, Kansas City, MO, 1971-1972
- Migrant Workers Camp Federally-Funded School, Pompano Beach, FL, Fall 1969-Spring 1970, full-time teacher for 4-year-old children
- Experimental Student Teaching Program at the University of Pittsburgh, teaching self-contained fifth grade, sixth grade science, second grade language arts, and self-contained kindergarten