EXPERIENCE
Dana Hall School, Wellesley, MA
Head of the Performing Arts and Director of Drama/ 1983-2016
In my position, I directed over 66 plays and musicals. Many of these plays were done in conjunction with other schools: Belmont Hill School, Roxbury Latin School, Weston High School, Brooks
I oversaw a vibrant performing arts program that included a music school, a choral music department, a dance department, and a technical theatre department in both the Middle and Upper Schools
A partial list of plays I have directed would include: Footloose, GEMS: Ten-Minute Play Festival, Urinetown, She Kills Monsters, Chicago, Jane Eyre adapted by Polly Teale, The Wiz, Pride’s Crossing, Guys and Dolls, Ragtime, Rent, Once Upon This Island, Goodnight Desdemona/Good Morning Juliet, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Lark, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pride and Prejudice adapted by Jane Kendall, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Kentucky Cycle, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Dark of the Moon, The Hobbit, The Real Inspector Hound, Black Comedy, The Women, How She Won the Game, Bye Bye Birdie, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, Sweet Charity, Bat Boy, Oklahoma, Oliver!, The Sound of Music, Annie, Pippin, Reckless, Anything Goes, A Tomb With a View, Antigone, Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Crazy for You, Once Upon a Mattress, Barefoot in the Park, The Apple Tree, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, Our Town, Approaching Zanzibar, Suessical, The School for Wives.
OTHER EXPERIENCE
The Bishops Schools, La Jolla, CA - Head of Performing Arts and Director of Drama/ 1976-1983
Freelance Director: the opera Noye’s Fludde by Benjamin Britten, new play Olly Olly Oxen Free by Judith Strang Waldau, Story Theatre on Cape Cod.
Actor in Boston area in plays, movies, commercials, radio and voice-over (see acting resume)
EDUCATION
Hamilton College, BA
Middlebury College, MA English with a concentration in Theatrical Literature
Studied directing with Alan MacVey, The Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College
Worked as assistant to well-known directors, Bread Loaf Acting Company:
Another Part of the House by Migdalia Cruz directed by David Esbjornson
The Devils by Elizabeth Egloff directed by Oskar Eustis.
Golden Child by David Henry Hwang directed by Oskar Eustis.
RECOMMENDATIONS
On request