My work as a teacher is delicate, playful, and practical. I facilitate my students in a creative process that primes their bodies, minds, and imaginations to walk onstage with an ease only a playful rigor can provide. In my training at the Pig Iron School, I have been immersed in the teachings of Jacques Lecoq. I have begun the process of synthesizing his objective observations of the natural world and their effect on the body with that of the Stanislavski-based psychological realism. My goal is to train theater artists in full cultivating a three-dimensional relationship with their work, begging questions of their audiences, and offering worlds that are seen, breathed in, and embodied.

Living in these tumultuous and exciting times means my work as a teacher needs to clear, sensitive, and open. Inclusivity is at the core of what I do, and I am prepared to continue to learn how to reinvent the structures of theater training to create a radically safe environment for creation.