NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. New York City. Jul.2002-Present

PhD in Performance Studies (2007).

• Dissertation Director: Richard Schechner
• Dissertation Title: Burning Man: Performance, Ritual, and the Experience Economy

• Areas of Concentration: Avant-garde Performance/ Experimental Performance/ Theatre / Ritual, Play & Festival / Performance Studies/ Physical Theatre.

Masters Degree in Performance Studies completed May 2003.

SKIDMORE COLLEGE Saratoga Springs, NY. 1994-1998

• Graduated with Bachelor of Arts: Theater Major (Concentration in Directing/Acting)
• Academic Honors: Cum Laude with Department honors, Periclean Honor Society

THEATRE TRAINING

EAST COAST ARTISTS, New York University, New York City 2003-2007

Rasaboxes Training with Richard Schechner, Paula Murray Cole, and Michele Minnick

ECOLE DE JACQUES LECOQ Paris, France. Sept.98-Jun.99

International School of Physical Theatre.                                 

• Exploration of the Poetic Body, in-depth mask study, and Lecoq’s Mimo-dynamic pedagogy.

DELL’ARTE PLAYERS CO. Blue Lake, California. Jul. –Aug. 1998

• Internship at Dell’Arte Mad River Theater Festival
• Mask Workshop with Joan Schirle and Michael Fields

SARATOGA INTERNATIONAL THEATRE INSTITUTE Saratoga Springs, NY. Jun.-Jul.,1996

• With Anne Bogart and the SITI Co. Intensive Study of Viewpoints and the Suzuki Method

BRITISH AMERICAN DRAMA ACADEMY (BADA) Sept.- Dec 1996

Junior Year Study Abroad: Stratford-Upon-Avon/London, England           

• Intensive Shakespeare Program

Master Classes with Royal Shakespeare Co, Fiona Shaw and Janet Susman

VESSEL, Artistic Director/ CO-Founder [1996- PRESENT]

• Not-For-Profit PHYSICAL THEATRE COMPANY
• Created/directed over 30 Interactive Performances called TRANSFIX around in New York City, Philadelphia & France. 

THE OPHELIA PROJECT, Work-In-Progress, Arizona State University 2007.

ARCANA, Downstairs Series, Ontological Hysteric Theatre. New York City Aug. 2002                                           

MASTABA, American Living Room Festival 2000, HERE Performance Art Café Jul. 2000

A WOMAN’S PLACE, HERE Performance Art Café, New York City Apr. 2001

CITY OF BELLS: An Adaptation of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry.HERE Performance Art Café  Mar. 2000

CITY OF BELLS: An Adaptation of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry. [Workshop] Skidmore College, NY. April 1998.

THE BALD SOPRANO by Ionesco. Skidmore College, NY Dec. 1997

SEDONA, ARIZONA, Bell Rock, Tlaquepaque Arts & Crafts Village, and Sunset Point. March 2007.

STARVING ARTIST BALL, Angel Orensantz Center, New York City 2005

PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL #11, Brown University

April 2005

THE KITCHEN, STREET FAIR 2004, New York City                                               

Sept 2004

• Performing Transfix with six performers

THE UNCONVENTION: American Theatre Festival, Abingdon Theatre, New York City.

Sept 2004

• Performing Transfix Solo

Howl Festival 2004, Tompkins Square Park.

August 2004

• Performing Transfix Solo at outdoor street fair.

THE KITCHEN,STREET FAIR 2003, New York City                                                                              

Sept 2003

• Performing Transfix Solo at outdoor street fair.

PHILADELPHIA FRINGE FESTIVAL

Sept 2003

• Vessel performed Transfix around Independence Mall, Rittenhouse Square and on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum.                                    

NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL 2002 (AL FRESCO), New York City

Aug. 2002

• Vessel performed Transfix at Tompkins Square Park, Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, and did a slow motion Rush Hour Tour at 5pm at Grand Central with Speed Levitch with an ensemble of five

GENART SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL 2001.Puck Building, New York City                                              

Jul. 2001

• Vessel performed Transfix for two-night art festival with an ensemble of seven

NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 2001, Madison Square Garden

 Mar. 2001

• Vessel performed Transfix for Opening Night of Festival with an ensemble of seven           

* Member of the Actors Equity Association since 1999.

ASTR American Society for Theatre Research. Phoenix, Arizona. November 2007.

Paper accepted as part of Escaping America Seminar. Rehearsing Utopia: Staging a Counter-Empire Performance at Burning Man

PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL #13, New York University November 2007.

Presented a paper titled, Pedagogies of Practice: A Post-Modern Approach to the Transmission of Performance Knowledge.

MID-ATLANTIC POPULAR/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Philadelphia, PA. November 2007.

Presented a paper titled, Rehearsing Utopia in Black Rock City; From the Everyday to Spectacle

ATHE Association of Theatre in Higher Education, New Orleans. July 2007.

Presented a paper for the Religion and Theatre Focus Group Temple of Tears: Revitalizing and Inventing Ritual in the Burning Man Community in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

HEMISPHERIC INSTITUTE ENCUENTRO, Buenos Aires, Argentina. June 2007.

Presented a paper for the Body As Ritual Space focus group Reinventing Ritual, Carnival, and Identity in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.

HOW TO ACT, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, England. February 2007.

Presented two workshops 3 hour: The Poetic Body: Inspired by the Pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq and Rasaboxes

Presented one paper: Pedagogies of Practice: A Post-Modern Approach to the Transmission of Performance Knowledge

ARIZONA THESPIAN SOCIETY CONFERENCE, Phoenix, Arizona November 2006.

Presented two workshops: The Poetic Body: Inspired by the Pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq and Rasaboxes

10th ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RITUAL, FESTIVAL, AND CELEBRATION. Willamette University, Oregon. June 2006.

Presented a paper titled, Temple of Tears: Revitalizing and Inventing Ritual in the Burning Man Community in Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

HUMANITIES COUNCIL ROUND-TABLE: Redefining Performance in the 21st Century

Round-Table Coordinator with RoseLee Goldberg [Fall 2004-Spring 2005]

• With Invited artists: Ralph Lemon, Sarah Mitchelson, Coco Fusco, Julian Laverderie [Tribute in Light], Tim Etchells [Forced Entertainment], Liz LeCompte, and Christian Marclay.

PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL #11, BROWN UNIVERSITY

• Lead Poetic Body Lecoq workshop and performed Transfix with Vessel, April 2005.

PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL #10, Singapore. June 2004

• Presented RasaBoxes Training Technique with Paula Murray Cole with Lecture/ Demo       

TUESDAY NIGHT SERIES. Moderated Panel with director Richard Foreman, April 2004

HUMANITIES COUNCIL SEMINAR: On Intertexuality and Theatrical Adaptations. New York University. Sept-May 2003-2004

• Invited by Carol Martin

THE POETIC BODY

Performance Studies international #11. Brown University. April 2005.

LECOQ ACTOR TRAINING: THE POETIC BODY

LOWER EAST SIDE MOVEMENT ARTS 14th Street Y, Sept 2004 & Spring 2005

MASTER CLASS: THE POETIC BODY, New York Dance Affinity. Aug, 2003

THE POETIC BODY: SIX-WEEK WORKSHOP, New York Dance Affinity. Oct- Nov. 2003

MASTER CLASS: THE POETIC BODY, Playwrights Horizon/ NYU. Nov, 2003

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS THEATRE ASSOCIATION, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nov 22-24, 2002

      BRAZIL: BODIES & BEATS- IB TAPS/ Theatre Festival at Escola Graduada  

      Movement Teacher: Lecoq’s Poetic Body Master Class

• Taught three Lecoq Pedagogy movement classes to fifty International students and twelve theatre teachers from International Schools in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Costa Rica, and Ecuador.

INTERNSHIP WITH JULIE TAYMOR. RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR GRENDELL. TO BE PRODUCED AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE 2006. SEPT 2004 -MAY 2005

GRADUATE ASSISTANT FOR LIZ LECOMPTE. DIRECTOR OF THE WOOSTER GROUP. THEORIES OF DIRECTING CLASS. NYU. SPRING 2005.

GRADUATE ASSISTANT FOR RICHARD SCHECHNER. SEPT 2003 - 2006.

PERFORMA. FOUNDED BY ROSELEE GOLDBERG. EDUCATION ASSOCIATE. SUMMER 2003- PRESENT.Performa

EAST COAST ARTISTS PERFORMANCE EXCHANGE. DIRECTED BY RICHARD SCHECHNER. ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE. 2003- PRESENT East Coast Artists

THE OFF-OFF BROADWAY COMMUNITY DISH. BOARD MEMBER FROM 2003-2005. VESSEL IS CURRENT DISH MEMBER AND HAS BEEN FROM 2002.The Community Dish

HUMANITIES COUNCIL ROUND-TABLE: Redefining Performance in the 21st century [Fall 2004-Spring 2005] [RECEIPIENT OF $10,000 GRANT]
Graduate student coordinator with RoseLee Goldberg, Andre Lepecki and Thomas Bender. Redefining Performance in the 21st Century