Photo by Heather Ligouri Esposito
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Since the start of 2022, I have been a guest teaching artist at ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT where I am working with first year actors on their spring production!
I also currently serve as an Adjunct Professor of Theatre at Southern Connecticut State University. I've taught classes in Understanding Theatre, Acting, Stage Combat, and have directed several productions including Red Velvet, An Enemy of the People, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Most recently, I directed and staged fights for the SCSU production of Sophocles' Antigone. I serve as a Resident Teaching Artist for the Elm Shakespeare Company where I have taught different master classes and directed youth productions of As You Like It, Macbeth, Pericles, and Much Ado About Nothing. |
On Elm Shakespeare Teen Troupe's As You Like It:
"...In the teen troupe’s hands, it found a perfect formula: 16 young people dealing with remote learning, social isolation, quarantine-era claustrophobia, a literal plague, and the emotional stew of teenagedom. There is, perhaps, no better group to act out this strange and funny interpretation of complex, hormonal and at times befuddled humans released back into the natural world...Often, actors waded through Elizabethan language—a feat that some adults still don’t manage to pull off—to find the timelessness and bite underneath." -Lucy Gelman, New Haven Arts
"...In the teen troupe’s hands, it found a perfect formula: 16 young people dealing with remote learning, social isolation, quarantine-era claustrophobia, a literal plague, and the emotional stew of teenagedom. There is, perhaps, no better group to act out this strange and funny interpretation of complex, hormonal and at times befuddled humans released back into the natural world...Often, actors waded through Elizabethan language—a feat that some adults still don’t manage to pull off—to find the timelessness and bite underneath." -Lucy Gelman, New Haven Arts
