关于我的

After serving for almost two decades as a child abuse intervention professional in the rural south, I turned my theatre avocation into my profession by earning my graduate degree and began working full-time as a freelance theatre technician and manager. Now I teach courses in stagecraft, dramatic literature and theatre operations, and I collaborate with my students and faculty colleagues as the production manager of our theatre department. I’m also a union-affiliated professional stagehand (国际 Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 636) and students can join me to work alongside professional stagehands when Broadway tours come through the area.

I’m the editor of the book Inspired Teaching: Essays on 剧院 Design and Technology 教育 出版于2013年. I have written about theatre safety, education and management in such publications as 剧院 Design & Technology, the quarterly journal Teaching 剧院, and Stage 方向 magazine. I’m a member of the United States Institute for 剧院 Technology where I have served on the national publications committee for many years.

I promote theatre operations as a valuable part of an overall liberal arts education, which should always help students learn how to think critically, communicate effectively and solve problems in every aspect of life. In the classroom, my work is driven by the question, “What do YOU think?例如:, I do not expect students to recite from memory the year when Henrik Ibsen wrote A Doll House, because this information is easily found in reputable reference books. I do require that they can express their critical opinions about the work, what it says about its originating cultural moment and what it may illuminate for us in our time and place.

In practical technical theatre education, the education process is driven by the collaborative moments between technicians, managers and other artists as we cooperate to bring these texts to the audience in performance. There is always a moment in every production when the audience and the artists come together and are changed, emerging from the experience somehow greater than they were before. I teach for those moments.

专业经验

选择出版物:

图书编辑, Inspired Teaching: Essays on 剧院 Design and Technology 教育 Published by United States Institute for 剧院 Technology, 2013

“I’ve seen that someplace else: Avoiding plagiarism in school theatre” in Teaching 剧院, 2010年春季

Co-authored with Andrew Rich. “本爱德华兹.《浩博体育app网站》 & Great: American Designers 1960-2010. Published by United States Institute for 剧院 Technology, 2010.

“Bring the heat: Designing for summer stock theatre” in Stage 方向, June 2008

“Twenty plays in ten days: An adventure in multi-venue festival production management” in 剧院 Design and Technology, 2004年夏天

“Counterweight rigging system safety inspections” in 剧院 Design and Technology, Summer 2003

SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

专家. “Managing Technical People.” United States Institute for 剧院 Technology annual conference, Fort Worth, TX. 2014年3月26日

论文合著者. “Realizing Joseph Priestley’s laboratory in Northumberland, Pennsylvania” (The Sites of Chemistry 1600-2000 Project, 精制的法语, 牛津大学, 英格兰, 7月4日, 2011

专家. “Teaching Technical Theater in a Bachelor of 艺术 Curriculum.” United States Institute for 剧院 Technology annual conference, Kansas City, MO, April 2, 2010

专家. “Plagiarism in the Digital Age” United States Institute for 剧院 Technology annual conference, 辛辛那提, 3月20日, 2009

专家. “The entitlement dilemma: An in-depth look at the production responsibilities of small programs weighing quantity versus quality” United States Institute for 剧院 Technology annual conference, 凤凰城, AZ, 3月14日, 2007

小组成员及主席. “Realizing the Vision: Artistic Director/Scenic Designer/Technical Director Relationships In Academic 剧院” Association for 剧院 in Higher 教育 annual conference, 多伦多, ON, 7月29日, 2004

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