Teaching Philosophy

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To understand Shakespeare, listen to The Weeknd.

I'm not kidding. I play "Save Your Tears" for my students because the verses are in the exact poetic meter that Shakespeare is famous for - iambic pentameter. (Likewise, the witches of MacBeth could chant to Nirvana). I find that if linked to things a student is already familiar with, even a topic as famously dense as Elizabethan verse can be made comprehensible.

Understandability is one of the four guiding values I use in my teaching.

Adjunct Professor: Fall 2018 - Present (Spring 2022)

• Acting I – Theatre Performance/Production 112
• Theatre Production I – Theatre Performance/Production 201AA
• Introduction to Theatre – Theatre 111
• Contemporary Cinema - Theatre and Film 210

Faculty Associate: Fall 2019

• Acting I: Fundamentals – Theatre Performance and Production 102

Adjunct Professor: Fall 2018 - Fall 2019

• Acting I – Theatre Performance/Production 112
• Introduction to Theatre – Theatre 111

Youth camp Instructor: July 2019

• "Acting for the Screen"

for the course "Acting Concentration for Stage and Screen Seminar"

School of Film, Dance, and Theatre - Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ 2020 

a play by John Osborne

EMCC Performing Arts Center. Avondale, AZ 2021

for the EMCC company of "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre

EMCC Performing Arts Center - Avondale, AZ 2021