Creative & Performance Practice
My creative work in theatre and performance is not separate from my community and educational practice—it is foundational to it.
I come to facilitation through long experience as a director, actor, performance-maker, and educator. Theatre taught me to listen closely, attend to group dynamics, work with uncertainty, and understand how language, emotion, and embodiment shape shared experience. These practices continue to inform how I design learning environments, facilitate dialogue, and work with communities today.
I understand performance not only as something staged, but as a way of being present: paying attention, listening carefully, responding to what emerges, and creating conditions where people feel seen, heard, and able to participate. Whether directing a production, facilitating a conversation, or guiding a workshop, I draw on the same commitments to attention, responsiveness, and care.
My creative practice includes theatre directing, acting, performance writing, and collaborative projects that explore memory, loss, learning, identity, and collective experience. Across these forms, I am interested in how performance can support reflection, connection, and meaning-making in everyday life.
Featured Work
A Pedagogy of Grounded Resilience
Forthcoming in Adult Literacy Education: The International Journal of Literacy, Language, and Numeracy
Inspired by Conversation Cafe at Aquinas Literacy Center, this article draws on community literacy practice to show how listening, storytelling, and shared dialogue can foster resilience and belonging. It presents facilitation not as the delivery of information, but as the cultivation of spaces where curiosity, participation, and care can flourish.
The article reflects my continuing interest in how creative practice can enrich community education and adult learning.
Selected Creative Practice
Theatre Directing
Directing contemporary drama, devised performance, and ensemble-based theatre to create meaningful encounters between performers and audiences.
Performance & Facilitation
Developing workshops and learning experiences that use performance practices to cultivate presence, listening, creativity, and engagement.
Performance Writing
Writing across scholarly, reflective, and creative forms that explore performance, translation, and human experience.
Story-Based Projects
Designing story-centered experiences that foster connection, reflection, and shared meaning through dialogue and creative practice.
Interested In Collaborating?
Much of my work grows through collaboration. I enjoy working with schools, libraries, community organizations, and cultural institutions to create opportunities for learning, storytelling, dialogue, and community engagement.