Teacher
Students perform an improvised scene with Brown Paper Puppets to explore the conventions of Japanese bunraku. Theatre 3731 History of Performance I, Fall 2021.
I am a pragmatic teacher who leverages multiple research-based instructional practices to serve my students best. I teach using constructivist learning theory, and I employ backwards designed curricula, authentic and aligned assessment, and student-centered instructional strategies like the Gradual Release of Responsibility Model to create classroom environments where every student can learn.
Education
The Ohio State University
Ph.D., Theater: Performance, History, Theory - 2024
Dissertation: “Performing Greek Comedies and Satyr Plays by Restoring, Reconstructing, and Reseeding Their Fragments”
M.A., Theater: Performance, History, Theory - 2019
Thesis: “Greek Tragedy and Its American Choruses in Open Air Theaters from 1991 to 2014: The Cases of Gorilla Theatre Productions and The Classic Greek Theatre of Oregon”
Adams State University
B.A., Theater with Secondary English Education License - 2010
Magna cum laude
Students perform “The Three Little Pigs” while others document the event, after which later ‘scholars’ will attempt to reconstruct. Activity inspired by K. H. Wood’s “Curative Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Theatre Historiography Classroom” (Theatre Topics 27.3, Nov. 2017). Theatre 3731 History of Performance I, Fall 2021.
Teaching Experience
The Ohio State University
CLASS 1101 - Introduction to Classical Literature
TH 2100 - Introduction to Theater Hybrid
TH 2100 - Introduction to Theater Online
TH 2367.01 - America Onstage
TH 2367.03 - Criticizing Television
TH 3731 - History of Performance I
Alamosa High School
English 9
Honors English 10
English 11
Theater: History, Acting, Design
Students recreate a crucial scene from John Augustus Stone’s Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags [1829] in a tableau vivant. Theatre 2367.01: American on Stage, Spring 2022.
