PROFILE   • Experience directing middle and high school students

                    • Comfortable directing large scale musicals

                    • Professional actress (AEA) with dynamic teaching style

 

EDUCATION        

 

1996         Master of Arts in Teaching, Elementary Education, College of Notre Dame of                        Maryland

 

1992        Bachelor of Arts, Spanish Language and Literature

              University of Maryland, College Park

 

1989        Ecology and Economy of Third World Nations Program in Costa Rica

                Associated Colleges of the Midwest

 

1987        Progress towards Bachelor Degree; Dugan Music Scholarship, Cornell College, IA 

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

2016-2018    Theater Director and Drama Teacher, The Village School, Naples, FL

 

Artistic Director for Middle and High School productions: Little Women, the Broadway Musical, The Sound of Music, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Trials of Alice in Wonderland, The Velveteen Rabbit, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  Drama teacher for grades 5-10.

 

2012-2018    KidzAct Instructor, Naples Players, FL

 

Taught introduction to acting to students ages 6-16, including improvisation, stage presence and character analysis.  Directed students in short plays, musicals and monologues

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1999-2000    5th Grade Teacher, Robinson Challenge ES, Clearwater, FL

        

Taught 19 at-risk fifth grade students in a public school drop-out prevention program.  

 

1996-1997    Science Programmer, High Touch - High Tech of New England

        

Taught a wide variety of science programs to children ages 3-14.  Traveled throughout the greater Boston area bringing hands-on science to public and private elementary and middle school. Program included physics, anatomy, botany, geology, chemistry and paleontology.

 

1995        Public Programmer/Performer, Maryland Science Center

        

Demonstrated scientific principles and experiments for the general public and school groups.  Specialized in making complex scientific ideas and theories understandable to a wide range of ages.

 

1995        Science Teacher, Project Discovery/ESF Camps, Baltimore, MD

        

Primary science teacher for children ages 4-8.  Dedicated to teaching kids that science is fun and exciting.  Hands-on experiments and participation key goals.  Specialties included chemistry, environmental science, rocketry and space travel, animals, geology.

 

1994        Naturalist, Patapsco Valley State Park, Ellicott City, MD

      

Led the Maryland Junior Ranger Program for children ages 7-15, the Park Pals program for    children ages 3-6, and canoeing and hiking adventures for ages 15- adult.  Created and            implemented individualized programs for special interest groups.