Professional Developments:

• 2025-2026 Served as movement coach for grad thesis APEX Projects in the Contemporary Theater Program at the New School
• 2023-2026 Served as Movement support for Site Specific project course with Irina Kruzhilina at the New School
• 2023-24 Served as movement coach on full-length plays with guest directors in the undergrad productions at the New School
• 2022-present Initiated a weekly meeting Dance Improv Collective engaging in a Contemplative Dance Practice and exploring compositional practices while dancing
• 2022-present Served as the Alexander Technique faculty person teaching Intro to the AT course to actors, composers, conductors, musicians and singers in Mannes, the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music as well as the School of Drama at the New School
• 2021-present collaborated with Alba Quezada as faculty of a Voice and Movement class for first year students enrolled in the Contemporary Theater Program at the New School
• 2020-2021 Co-taught Improv and Collab COPA CORE course with vocalist Fay Victor
• 2020 Selected to collaborate with mixed discipline faculty and design an Improvisation and Collaboration core curriculum course for undergrad freshmen musicians, singers and actors at the New School
• 2020 Nominated for a Distinguished University Teaching Award at the New School
• 2019 Laban Movement Analysis Module 2 certification at Laban/Bartieneff Institute of Movement Studies – NYC
• 2018-2026 Taught Movement for Actors; Intro to the Alexander Technique to sophomore actors in BFA Theater program at Fordham University
• 2017-2018 Designed and taught a “Devising for Actors” class at the New School
• 2016 Staged reading of, “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” as adapted by Alex Levy at the Lee Strasberg Institute for Film and Theater, NYC in the role of art therapist
• 2016 Introduced Charlie Chaplin film, “Limelight” at The Rubin Museum of Art, NYC
• 2015 Movement Faculty at The New School for Drama: Summer Acting Intensive
• 2015 Laban Movement Analysis Module 1 certification at Laban/Bartieneff Institute of Movement Studies – NYC
• 2014 Nominated for a Distinguished University Teaching Award at the New School
• 2014 to 2020 Served as AT support and movement coach for graduate student directors and playwrights in full length thesis productions in New Vision and New Voices festivals at New School for Drama MFA program
• 2014 Presented workshop, “Bringing the AT to Developing a Production of, As You Like It” with director, Stephen Fried and colleague, Cynthia Reynolds at Freedom to Act conference – NYC
• 2013 Worked with New School of Drama Classics directors- Casey Biggs and Stephen Fried- on Integrating the AT in productions of As You like it and Macbeth
• 2013 Taught at The Dalton School, introductory classes to high school seniors in the Acting and Directing tracks – NYC
• 2013 Developed with Ann Rodiger and Belinda Mello, Freedom to Act: Acting and the Alexander Technique, a conference of twenty-five AT faculty with extensive Movement and Acting background who shared their developments at integrating the AT in rehearsal, performance, and on the film set – NYC
• 2012- 2018 Movement Faculty at NYU Tisch program at the Strasberg Institute for Film and Theater
• 2012 Co-taught “Movement for Actors” classes with NYU’s Atlantic Theater Co faculty, George Russell
• 2012 Taught workshop, “Finding the Spine of Characters” at Red Bull Theater’s spring intensive – NYC
• 2012 Assisted Jean Taylor teach a Clown Workshop as informed by the Alexander Technique at The Barrow Group
• 2012 “Cultivating a Lively Use of Tension; the synergy between Acting and the Alexander Technique” an article published in Journal of Theater, Dance, and Performance Training by Routledge Publishers – Oxford, UK
• 2012 Developed and produced together with Ann Rodiger and Belinda Mello, Freedom to Act; Acting and the Alexander Technique, a conference of twenty-six AT faculty coming together to share pedagogical developments teaching in drama departments and conservatory trainings throughout the US and Canada – NYC
• 2010 Nominated for a Distinguished University Teaching Award at the New School
• 2008-2011 Weekly meetings with colleague, Belinda Mello, for hands-on work and  discussion of our teaching experience working with actors
• 2008 Assisted at Alexander Techniek Centrum, Paul Versteeg and Tessa Marwick – Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 2005-2020 Served as Alexander Technique faculty in the New School for Drama, a MFA program part of the New School – NYC,
• 2000 Taught workshops at Jean Cocteau Repertory Theater- NYC
• 1996-2002 Alexander Technique faculty at Gregory Ables Training Ensemble (GATE) -NYC
• 1996 Private lessons and assisted at the Carrington Training Center- London, UK
• 1995-2005 Alexander Technique faculty at The Actor’s Studio MFA Program at The New School
• 1995-present Private lessons and workshops with international and US senior AT teachers
• 1995 Graduate of the American Center for Alexander Technique – NYC
• 1990-2007 Taught weekly dance, movement and yoga classes – Brooklyn, NY
• 1987 Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (Art History, Aesthetics, Dance) – Bronxville, NY

Performance Highlights:

• 1992 Ron Brown’s Evidence Dance Theater – Theater 80 at St Mark’s, NYC
• 1991 Susan Marshall (choreography) and Francesca Zambello (director) of Los Angeles Opera production of “Les Troyens” by Berlioz at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion- Los Angeles, CA
• 1991 Amiel Malale and Dancers – The American Dance Festival (Premier of commission) – Duke University, NC
• 1990 Marguerita Guergue and Dancers – The Kitchen (Bessie Award) – NYC
• 1989 Bessie Schoenberg Composition workshop, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival – Lenox, MA
• Residencies at: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Vassar College, Bard College, SUNY Buffalo.
• Choreographers: Melanie Lien from Pina Bausch, David Dorfman, Mark Morris, Ann Calson, Marguerita Guergue, Jennifer Sargent
• 1988-1991 CodanceCo – NY, NY (DIA Art Foundation, Dance Theater Workshop, PS122)
• 1988 Byron Suber, “On Top of Blueberry Hill” – La Mama Cabaret, NYC
• 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics Cultural Olympiad Festival – Performance Arts program
• 1980-1981 Apprentice with the Pennsylvania Ballet – Philadelphia, PA
• 1979-1980 student and graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts – Winston-Salem, NC
• 1977-1978 summer scholarship program at American Ballet Theater – NYC
• 1975-1977 Goleta Civic Ballet (Regional Ballet Company) – Santa Barbara, CA