Educator.
My teaching is rooted in one question: how do we help students find authenticity, both in the work and in themselves? Using a dual-method approach that combines Meisner's honest, spontaneous reaction with Chekhov's embodied physicality, I train actors who are technically equipped and culturally conscious, but still curious. I integrate voice, movement, imagination, and script analysis into a process that helps students build artistic agency rather than imitating technique.The result is a classroom grounded in consent, inclusivity, and intellectual bravery, where students learn to justify their choices through their own actor process.
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Currently: Graduate Teaching Assistant at
Michigan State University
Writing Examples:
Article: “Understanding Objectives and Tactics Through Play”. Edited by Karen Waidley for the Mid-America Theater Conference Journal
International Dialects of English Archive . Primary-Source recordings of English language dialects and English spoken in the accents of other languages.
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