“Whether I am partnering with researchers in the medical school about power dynamics in the delivery room and supporting advocacy for birthing people, or in the rehearsal room or classroom with actors and directors, I believe in helping facilitate spaces where all voices are included.

As a movement teacher, director, and choreographer, I have always been interested in how we tell stories physically. I have worked with actors from ages 8 to 80, in community, educational and professional settings. As a voice and movement teacher I have long worked with performers discovering all the gifts and challenges in their own bodies and am experienced in working with students transitioning into the bodies of their gender identities at all stages of the process.

I began my academic career working at New York Film Academy with international students -rewriting their Voice and Movement curriculum as they became accredited back in 2006. Now, many years later, at The University of Rochester’s International Theatre Program and Eastman School of Music, I am fortunate enough to work again with a culturally and internationally diverse student and faculty population.

As an MFA graduate of The Actor’s Studio in NY and producer and performer in the storefront theatre scene in Chicago- I love work that stretches us and deeply explores the human experience. With the growth in industry standards around intimacy work, I firmly believe we can tell more creative, interesting, inclusive, and intimate stories while respecting the boundaries of everyone in the space and freeing artists with a process and language in place to create brave, inventive, and physical work!”