UNIVERSITY TEACHING

Augsburg University (2009-2025)

MFA Mentor (present); Associate Professor (2015-2021); Assistant Professor (2009-2015)

  • Undergraduate Courses: Playwriting I & II, Script Analysis, Theater Histories: Origins to 1800, Theater Histories: 1800 to Present, Acting & Improv for Nonmajors, Arts in the Cities, Theater Keystone, Art of Resistance

  • Graduate Courses: Playwriting Mentorship, Out-of-Genre Mentorship, Critical & Creative Reading; MFA Thesis

  • Other Work: created playwriting concentration of low-res MFA creative writing program; served as theater department chair; advised and mentored student honors projects, senior directing projects, and independent studies; directed original student-devised performances

The University of Texas at Austin (2002-2009)

Instructor (2005-2009); Teaching Assistant (2002-2005)

  • Undergraduate Courses (Instructor): Playwriting II, Fundamentals of Acting, Training the Speaking Voice

  • Undergraduate Courses (TA): New Play Dramaturgy, Introduction to Theatre for Non-Majors, Creative Drama II, Languages of the Stage

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Healing to Hope (2024-present)

Executive Director (current)

College Engage (2023-present)

Independent Educational Consultant (current)

Playwrights’ Center (2019-PRESENT)

Consultant (2022-present); Director of University Programs & Partnerships (2020-2022); Education Programs Manager (2019-2020)

Rude Mechs (2003-2008)

Grrl Action Program Director; Company Member

GUEST TEACHING & WORKSHOPS (selected)

Augsburg University (2009-2024)

  • Guest speaker/instructor for courses: Stage Direction; Making Room at the Table: Creating Collaborative Networks and Common Spaces; Margins as Center: Voices in Feminist Theory; Honors Senior Seminar: Legacies of Chicago: Ideas and Action in Place; Honors Senior Seminar: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Homelessness and Affluence in the U.S.; Readings in American Drama

  • Workshop leader for groups/programs: Confronting Stereotypes, Building Community: Story Circles with Jewish & Muslim Youth, co-facilitated with Fardosa Hassan (2019-2020); Creating an Inclusive Campus (2012-2017); Center for Teaching & Learning (2017; 2012); New Faculty Orientation (2014-2015); Health Commons at Dar Ul-Quba Mosque (2011-2013)

CAL ARTS

Guest speaker for Daniel Alexander Jones’s Mysticism and Performance course, School of Theater (2023; 2024; 2025)

MAYO CLINIC

Guest presenter for The Human Element course, Humanities in Medicine program (2022)

DRAMATISTS GUILD FOUNDATION & Playwrights’ Center

Facilitator for DGF Traveling Masters with Daniel Alexander Jones (2019)

WALKER ART CENTER

Facilitator for Mn Artists Presents, “Public Strategic Planning Session on Institution and Identity” (2019)

Penumbra Theatre

My America workshop mentor (2018); Summer Institute workshop leader (2015)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS