Education

Michael Chekhov technique teacher certification (pending), University of Southern Maine
& the Michael Chekhov Theatre Institute, 2005 & 2006

SITI Summer Intensive, Saratoga NY, Summer 2003.
SITI in LA, Summer 2002 & Summer 2001.
Lincoln Center Director's Lab, summer 2000 & summer 1999.
MFA in Directing, Columbia University, 1998
Studied directing with Anne Bogart, Andrei Serban, and Marcus Stern;
Playwriting with Eduardo Machado;
Acting with Priscilla Smith;
Commedia & physical theater with Nikolaus Wolcz.
Hammerstein Center for the Performing Arts Graduate Fellowship, 1996-97.
MFA in Performance & Choreography, UCLA, 1991
Member of UCLA Dance Company, 1989-90.
Elaine Krown Klein Award for the Creative Arts, 1989.
Studied movement for actors with Tom Orth;
Composition with Elaine R. Barkin;
Choreography with Bill T. Jones and Kei Takei.
BFA in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, 1983.

Dance training 1983-1989:
Studied modern dance performance and choreography with Lucas Hoving, Joe Goode, Aaron Osborne, and Doug Varone;
Ballet with Kristine Elliott, Yehuda Maor, and Lynette Stevens Defazio.





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