Resume

2023-present
Walnut Creek, CA

Artistic Director, Center Repertory Company

Produce and program a season of six new plays and musical in three theaters (capacity 800, 300 & 130, LORT D LOA), plus add-on events, Young Rep, and a summer cultural festival. The mission and vision of Center REP is to develop and produce engaging new work alongside re-envisioning classic work that speaks to the current moment.

2014-2023
San Diego, CA

Executive Artistic Director, Diversionary Theatre

Nominated for 35 San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Awards in seven years, winning Outstanding New Play twice, and the Don Braunagel Award for Outstanding Work. Program and produce a Mainstage season of plays and musicals in an intimate 106 seat theatre. Inaugurated a new Cabaret performance venue open five nights a week, as well as a flexible Black Box Theatre to support the development of new work. Developed significant new foundation support and strategies in fundraising via individuals and institutions to grow the annual budget 150%, and launched a successful $2.7 million Comprehensive Campaign to renovate the facility and render the theatre debt free. Collaborate with the Board of Trustees to meet all fundraising and organizational goals, and completed a successful re-branding effort. Expanded arts education offerings from one to nine free programs serving thousands annually. Maintained and developed new artistic alliances with playwrights and theaters locally and nationally.

2011-2014
Pittsburgh, PA

Associate Artistic Director, City Theatre Company

Produced and programmed a season of six new plays in two theaters (LORT D), plus three add-on events, The Young Playwrights Festival and the Momentum Festival of New Plays. Duties included line producing, new play coverage, correspondence/relationship management with playwrights, casting of actors locally, in NYC and other regions, engaging design staff, and coordinating efforts with development, marketing and production offices. Annually directed one show in the subscription season, the Young Playwrights Festival and one workshop production in the Momentum Festival.

2008-2011
New York, NY

Development Manager, The Play Company

Expanded and maintained donor relations in corporate, government, foundation and individual support. Worked with the Board of Directors and Ambassadors in planning and executing major annual gala event and special events throughout the season. Generated significant new programmatic support in line with the company’s international mission.

1997-2004
New York, NY

Literary & Development Director, Amas Musical Theatre

Programmed and produced The Six O’Clock Musical Lab, a concert staged reading series of new musicals, including publicity, casting and management. Plays developed, commissioned and/or produced during my tenure include ZANNA, DON’T!, THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE, LITTLE HAM, and the Richard Rodgers Award-winning BARRIO BABIES, among others.

UC San Diego
Graduate Directing Program

Professor of Directing

Taught Directing Process and Directing New Work in Production; Advised MFA Directing candidates on directing new work with Graduate Playwrights in the Wagner New Play Festival.

Carnegie Mellon University
School of Drama

The John Wells Professor in Directing

Composed syllabus and taught Directing III: Forms & Formats for Junior BFA Directing candidates; Advised MFA candidates on New Work in Production and Final Thesis Productions.

Jagged Little Pill
by Morissette, Ballard & Cody

Center REP, Walnut Creek, CA
2026

FROGGY
by Jennifer Haley

Center REP, Walnut Creek, CA
2025

Arsenic & Old Lace
by Joseph Kesselring

Center REP, Walnut Creek, CA
2024

South Side Stories Revisited
by Tami Dixon

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh
2024

Head Over Heels
by Whitty, Magruder & The Go-Go’s

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2023

* The Mystery of Irma Vep
by Charles Ludlam

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2022

The Skin of Our Teeth
by Thornton Wilder

Old Globe & USD MFA Acting, SD
2022

* Hedwig & the Angry Inch
by Mitchell & Trask

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2019

This Beautiful City
by The Civilians/Michael Friedman

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2018

* The Loneliest Girl in the World
by Meinwald & Leary

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2018

Cloud Nine
by Caryl Churchill

Old Globe & USD MFA Acting, SD
2018

Homos, Or Everyone in America

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2017

* Ballast
by Georgette Kelly

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2017

* The Mystery of Love & Sex
by Bathseba Doran

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2016

Now Or Later
by Christopher Shinn

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2016

Amazons and Their Men
by Jordan Harrison

Diversionary Theatre, San Diego
2015

The Mystery of Irma Vep
by Charles Ludlam

Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, ME
2014

A Feminine Ending
by Sarah Treem

Off the Wall Theatre, Pittsburgh
2014

Charles Ives Take Me Home
by Jessica Dickey

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh
2013

** South Side Stories
by Tami Dixon

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh
2012

Tigers Be Still
by Kim Rosenstock

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh
2012

Froggy (workshop)
by Jennifer Haley

La Jolla Playhouse; Banff Centre; Sundance Theatre Institute; A.C.T., CA; P73 @ Yale Drama
2010-2018

Don’t You F**king Say A Word (workshop)
by Andy Bragen

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh
2013

The Shadow Sparrow (workshop)
by Anton Dudley, Keith Gordon & Charlie Sohne

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh
2012

*** Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom
by Jennifer Haley

Bricolage Theatre, Pittsburgh
2009

2.5 Minute Ride
by Lisa Kron

Altered Stages, NYC
2008

Only Children (workshop)
by Michael R. Jackson & Rachel Peters

Lincoln Center Director’s Lab
2007

Urinetown The Musical
by Mark Hollman & Greg Kotis

St. John’s University, NYC
2006

The Exception and the Rule
by Bertolt Brecht

The Tank, NYC
2003

The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told
by Paul Rudnick

Theatre @ St. Clements, NYC
2002

john & jen
by Andrew Lippa & Tom Greenwald

The Studio @ Playwrights Horizons
1999