I work as Producing Artistic Director at Square Top Theatre and Professor of Theatre & Dance and Robert K. and Ann J. Powers Chair of the Humanities at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.
As a director, I create films, theatre, and gallery installations and explore the potential for those projects to engage across borders—between people and cultures, between methods and disciplines. My projects tend to revolve around questions of memory, place, and pilgrimage.
Directorial work for Square Top Theatre includes: Love, Eleanor, a short narrative film set in Greece about an art historian studying ikons who comes to understand that love is only real when it is a directed action; Without Them I Am Lost, a feature-length documentary about a Norwegian community clinging to a fragile coastline in a rapidly changing world; Climbing Eros, a short documentary filmed in Greece about crossing distance and returning to earth; Koppmoll, a short documentary filmed in Norway about home, family, loss, and a nearly forgotten war; The Scent of a Thousand Rains by Damon Falke, a performance piece in verse for an actor and a violinist; and Laura, or Scenes from a Common World, an experimental film and gallery installation created in the Norwegian arctic.
Directorial work for Gonzaga University includes: Romeo ∞ Juliet, the premiere of Coming Home: A Soldiers’ Project, a site responsive production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and a devised, physical production based on Rilke’s Book of Hours. Read more about my teaching here.
I served in the U.S. Peace Corps (China, 2010-12), where I directed cross-cultural productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest at Guizhou University. The latter production was invited to perform as part of the Chinese Universities Shakespeare Festival in Hong Kong.
Read more about my current projects here, or view my portfolio of past projects here.
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
Network of Ensemble Theatres
National Peace Corps Association
