Teaching Experience

The Kids College

Positions: Teacher, Teaching Assistant, Site Supervisor (Present)

Mentors: Ann Little (Executive Director)

  • Taught Playwriting and Improv after-school classes at Fallbrook High School. Teachers Assistant and Substitute for children’s (Kindergarten-5th grade) after-school enrichment programs including, but not limited to: art, theatre, robotics, chess, and choir classes at Mary Fay Pendleton School, Live Oak Elementary School, Bobier Elementary School & Foothill Oak Elementary School.

Theatre Front to Back

Positions: Teaching Aritist, Director

Mentors: Kiara Hudlin (Education and Fellowship Manager), Kristianne Kurner (Artistic Director)

  • (October 2023-December 2023) Wrote lesson plan for 2 month long after-school theatre program, led various technical workshops including puppet-making workshop, playwriting workshop, and model-box workshop, etc., directed devised piece written for middle schoolers called The Game, gave young theatre artists insight to all fields of theatre to expand their horizons at Roosevelt Middle School, Oceanside.

  • (September 2024-December 2024) Wrote lesson plan for 3 month long after-school theatre program, led various technical workshops including puppet-making workshop, playwriting workshop, and model-box workshop, dramaturg workshop, etc., led acting workshops to help with character development, assisted with their production of Little Women, helped students create historical research presentations for Little Women, gave young theatre artists insight to all fields of theatre to expand their horizons at El Camino High School, Oceanside.

Leadership Experience

Star Theatre Company

Positions: Stage Manager, Technician, Administration (Present)

Mentors: Paul Friedman (General Manager), David Schultz (Artistic Director)

  • Manage full casts from adult plays to children's musicals (ages 6-18) by tracking people conflicts, sending scheduling updates daily, checking people into rehearsals and auditions, sending daily rehearsal reports to staff and tech, updating lists of everyone’s information for contact and programs, tracking materials students and actors need to turn in, managing backstage during shows including scenic changes, prop tracking and safety enforcement.

Brick Theatre Company at UC Irvine


Positions: Head of Communications, Producer (August 2021-June 2022)

Mentors: Don Hill (Faculty Advisor), Lucas Nelson (Graduate Mentor)

  • Website Designer, Newsletter Writer, Social Media Manager, General Meeting Leader

  • Organize royalty rights for play productions, curated design team, budget manager, booked rehearsal spaces, organized calendar, rented out set and props, and photographed and filmed productions


GSA Sage Creek High School


Position: Vice President (August 2016- June 2017)

Mentors: Sarah Hunter (Faculty Advisor)

  • General Meeting Leader, Curated film Paper Bag Heart for the Lavender Effect’s Video Competition, collaborated with other GSA’s for youth events

Directing Experience

  • Director for The Game devised by Haley Canaletti and Ed Alvarez

    • New Village Arts at Roosevelt Middle School

  • Director for A Midsummer Night’s Dream

    • Sage Creek High School 

  • Director for Acute Exposure written by August Hakvaag

    • Brick Theatre Company at UC Irvine

  • Director for No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre

    • Sage Creek High School

  • Assistant Director for Bye Bye Birdie by Michael Stewart 

    • Sage Creek High School (Directed by Jillian Porter-Eshelman)

Education

University of California, Irvine

Bachelors of the Arts in Drama with a Minor in Sociology

MiraCosta College

Associates Degree in Theatre Arts

Technical Theatre Experience

  • ​​​Stage Manager for Beetlejuice Jr

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Props Designer and Assistant Stage Manager for The Half-Life of Marie Curie

    • New Village Arts

  • Stage Manager for The Music Man

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Stage Manager for Freaky Friday Jr

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Stage Manager for A Chorus Line

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Stage Manager for Aladdin Jr

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Production Assistant for WOW Festival

    • La Jolla Playhouse

  • Stage Manager for Plaza Suite

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Props Designer for The 39 Steps

    • New Village Arts

  • Stage Manager for Matilda

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Stage Manager for Beauty and the Beast

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Props Designer for Fun Home

    • New Village Arts​​

  • Props Designer for Singin’ in the Rain

    • New Village Arts

  • Stage Manager for The Little Mermaid

    • Star Theatre Company 

  • Assistant Stage Manager for The Ferryman

    • New Village Arts

  • Stage Manager for Annie

    • Star Theatre Company

  • Assistant Stage Manager, Puppeteer for Into the Woods

    • MiraCosta College

  • Assistant Stage Manager for The Servant of Two Masters

    • New Village Arts

  • Light Board Operator for Native Gardens

    • UC Irvine

  • Deck Crew for Victor Victoria

    • Moonlight Amphitheater 

  • Deck Crew for 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

    • Mira Costa College

  • Light Board Operator for Alice in Wonderland

    • Carlsbad Community Theatre

Shakespeare

  • Ghost of Old Hamlet, Leading Player, Gravedigger in Hamlet

    • UC Irvine

  • Boy in Henry V 

    • MiraCosta College

  • Juliet in Romeo and Juliet

    • Sage Creek High School (with New Village Arts)

  • Celia in As You Like It 

    • Sage Creek High School (with New Village Arts)

  • Philostrate/Peasblossom in A Midsummer Night's Dream

    • Sage Creek High School (with New Village Arts)

Other Acting Credits

  • Nichole in Coming Home

    • MiraCosta College

  •  Becca in All This Intimacy

    • Student Group Theatre

  • Tinker in Bad Girl

    • New Village Arts 

  • Lydia in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley

    • New Village Arts

  •  Margaret in Sense and Sensibility

    • MiraCosta College

  • Plante Ballatine “PB” in One Slight Hitch

    • Carlsbad Playreaders

Physical Theatre

  • Graduated Actors Academy 2019

    • MiraCosta College

  • Neofuturism: 30 Plays in 60 Minutes, Schrodingers Cast (x8)

    • University of California, Irvine 

  • Clown Ensemble (Faculty Advisor: Eli Simon)

    • University of California, Irvine

Skills and Awards

  • CPR/AED/Choking/First Aid Certified for Adult, Children and Infants given by American Red Cross

  • Proficiency in Google Drive, Excel, Wix, Squarespace, Pixton Comics, Scratch Coding, Tinkercad, Adobe, Soundtrap, Canva, Mail Chimp, Youtube, Scenic Painting, Specialty Props, Carpentry tools (Drills, jigsaw, chop saw and staple gun)

  • Effectively able to communicate e.g. the ability to manage large casts of 100+ people plus all the staff for Star Theatre

  • State of California Senate Certificate of Recognition for LGBT+ activism with GSA. Given by Toni Atkins for Sage Creek High’s GSA 

  • Cashier of the Month at Home Depot, South Oceanside #0679 

  • National Youth Arts Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play for my role as Celia in As You Like It

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