I’ve been working in the theatre, dance and opera world for over 25 years. I’m a director, a choreographer, a designer, a writer, a performer and a producer. I’ve worked in venues of all sizes from small store-front spaces, to giant Broadway houses, to international opera arenas and everything in between. I specialize in theatre for young audiences, historical reference pieces and uniquely creative takes on classic tales.

Director/Choreographer/Movement Director

Cabaret (Assoc. Director/Choreographer)- Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

Matilda (Director/Choreographer)- Highland Park Players

Rent, in concert (Director/Choreographer)- Highland Park Players (postponed due to Covid)

The Wizard of Oz (Director/Choreographer)- Big Noise Theatre (Especially For Kids), Des Plaines, IL

“Tales & Fables” (Director/Choreographer)- Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn, NY

Love/Sick (Director/ Intimacy Director) - Parker Players, Barrington, IL

Grease, School Edition (Director/ Intimacy Director)- Metropolis School of Performing Arts

Legally Blonde (Director/ Intimacy Director)- Stevenson High School

Dr. Seuss at the Opera, A TYA concert (Director)- Skokie Theatre (10/22)

“Fancy Pants Cabaret” (Director)- Green Room 42, NYC

Snow Day (Director)- Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn, NY

The Raven (Director/Adaptor)- Illinois Wesleyan University Directing Showcase

A Christmas Carol (Co-Director/Adaptor)- Moving Bench Theatre & Chicago Public Library

Amadeus (Co-Director/Intimacy Director)- Parker Players

Don’t Dress for Dinner (Assist. Director)- Theatre D, Deerfield, IL

Shout! The Mod Musical (Choreographer)- Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

Footloose (Choreographer)- Wilmette Center for the Arts

Urinetown (Choreographer)- Metropolis School of Performing Arts

The Prom (Choreographer)- Stevenson High School

“Run! Run!” (Choreographer)- Phoenix Theatre, Bloomington, IL

42nd Street (Assoc. Choreographer)- Illinois Wesleyan University

Scheherazade (Movement Director)- Phoenix Theatre, Bloomington, IL

Designer

The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham… (Writer/Designer/Producer)- Greenhouse Theater Center, Chicago

Don’t Dress for Dinner (Production Designer)- Theatre D, Deerfield, IL

A Christmas Carol (Production Designer)- Moving Bench Theatre, Chicago, IL

Guys & Dolls (Costume Designer)- Sierra Repertory Theatre, Sonora, CA

“Caffeinated” & “Bolero” (Costume Designer)- Keigwin & Company at the Joyce Theatre, NYC

Splendid’s (Costume Designer)- Stella Adler Studio, NYC

The Tempest (Costume Designer)- Trinity Repertory Co./Brown Consortium

Hamlet (Costume Designer)- Trinity Repertory Co./Brown Consortium

The Maids (Costume Designer)- Trinity Repertory Co./Brown Consortium

Full Circle (Costume Designer)- Trinity Repertory Co./Brown Consortium

Twelfth Night (Costume Designer)- Green Stick Theatre Company, Chicago

Aces (Costume Designer)- Signal Ensemble Theatre, Chicago

Motion (Costume Designer)- Signal Ensemble Theatre, Chicago

Plough and the Stars (Costume Designer)- Tisch School of the Arts

A Doll’s House (Costume Designer)- Tisch School of the Arts

Our Country’s Good (Costume Designer)- Illinois Wesleyan University

Three Sisters (Costume Designer)- Illinois Wesleyan University

Blood Brothers (Costume Designer)- Illinois Wesleyan University

American Idiot (Costume Artisan)- St. James Theatre, Original Broadway Production

Performer

Nunsense (Sister Mary Hubert)- Up and Coming Theatre

Clue (Mrs. Peacock)- Kirk Players

The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham… (Lydia Pinkham)- Moving Bench Theatre

A Christmas Carol (Marley/Mrs. Cratchit)- Moving Bench Theatre

The Wild Party (Madeline True)- Piven Theater

Heathers (Ms. Fleming/Veronica’s Mom)- Oakton Performing Arts

Inherit the Wind (Judge)- Theatre D, Deerfield

Kiss Me Kate (Gangster 1/dance captain)- Big Noise Theatre

Seussical (Mrs. Mayor)- Big Noise Theatre

Dragons Love Tacos (Dragon/Person in Suit US)- Big Noise Theatre

Spamalot (Patsy/dance captain)- Wilmette Center for the Arts

Big, the Musical (Mrs. Baskin/dance captain)- Wilmette Center for the Arts

The Music Man (Mrs. Paroo)- Wilmette Center for the Arts

Oliver! (Mrs. Sowerberry/Old Sally)- Wilmette Center for the Arts

Once Upon a Mattress (Lady Rowena/featured dancer)- Wilmette Center for the Arts

Pnkalicious (Dr. Wink/featured dancer)- Highland Park Players

A Fairy Tale Adventure (Ugly Duckling/Swan Ballerina)- Highland Park Players

Bicycle Day (world premier) (The Witch/The Moon)- Annoyance Theatre Chicago

Cubicle (world premier) (Brenda Flickshagen)- Theatre Nebula

Oklahoma (Ensemble/featured dancer)- Glenview Theatre Guild

Teaching Experience

Clearbrook on Cue- Theatre for Students with Disabilities, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre

Resident Theatre Instructor: Directing & Design Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn, NY

Resident Designer/Instructor: Northwestern Univ., National High School Institute

Stage Makeup for Actors: NYU, Tisch School of the Arts

Guest Artist & keynote speaker: Chicago Area Arts Appreciation Day, 2008

Instructor: Actor’s Toolbox Improv Playhouse

Instructor: Theatre Arts Tamarak Summer Program

Instructor: Musical Theatre Great Lakes Summer Program

Teacher/Choreographer McLean County Dance Academy

Teacher/Choreographer Dance Connection, Grayslake

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

-Oscar Wilde

UPCOMING PROJECTS

The Wedding Singer

Music on Stage, May 2025

Directed by Jenilee Houghton