Studio Courses

Playwriting / Interdisciplinary Art - New Performance Workshop / Theatre Collaboration

Theatre Studies Courses

Dramaturgy / Critical Performance Theory / Play Analysis / Research Methods / Introduction to Theatre / Ancient - 17th Century Theatre History / 17th – 20th Century Theatre History / Contemporary Theatre History / Women in Performance / Post-colonial Theory & Performance

• Curriculum lead. Mellon Arts on Campus grant. Pennsylvania State University. 2010-2022.
• The Mellon School, “Locations of Theater” Conveners: Martin Puchner, Andrew Sofer, and Derek Miller. Harvard University. Summer 2014.
• Faculty Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Toward research related to book in progress, Dwelling in Public: Domestic Space in Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Performance Art. 2014-2015.
• American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Collaborative Research Award. Jeanmarie Higgins and Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (University of Pittsburgh). toward Embodied Research / Researching Embodiment in collaboration with the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. 2013.
• UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant. Dance Dramaturgy. toward research in dance dramaturgy as a collaborative, artistic practice. 2012-2014
• UNC Charlotte Diversity Grant. with Robin Witt. Sacrificial Poets, to support Chapel Hill performance poets Kane Smego and Will McInerney’s spoken word poetry master class for Theatre Collaboration students. 2013
• UNC Charlotte Diversity Grant. with Beth Murray. Dramaturgy Outreach, to support master classes in African-American performance history, delivered to Arts & Society: Theatre students, in support of the theatre department production of George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum. 2012

• "Space-making in Dance: the Nelken-Line Project." Arts & Design Research Incubator, Penn State, University Park, PA, with Michele Dunleavy and Anthony B. Buccitelli, 2018.
• "Domestic Stage Space in Hamletmachine." The University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2017.
• "AGA Collaborative: Walking in the Academy" for UNC Charlotte, 2017.
• Master Class (via Skype). “Dance Reconstruction Dramaturgy” for Dr. Ariel Nereson's Advanced Dramaturgy Seminar. SUNY-College at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance. 2015.
• Barbara Morgan's Photographs of Martha Graham." Lecture dance with Kim Jones for "ArtFusion: Modernism" public lecture at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.  2014.
• “Dance Reconstruction: a Dramaturgy of the Body.” Lecture dance with Kim Jones. Public Praxis: Performing, Race, History. University of Pittsburgh Humanities Institute. 2014.
• Master Class (via Skype). “Dance Reconstruction Dramaturgy” for Dr. Lisa Jackson-Schebetta’s graduate seminar, “Race and Embodiment in 20th Century Performance in the Americas.” University of Pittsburgh Department of Theatre Studies. 2013.
• Gia Kourlas, “Recreating the Reign: the Better to Fall.” New York Times 15 Feb 13.
• Invited Talk. Preshow Panel: “Reconstructing Martha Graham’s Imperial Gesture.” January 18, 2013. Martha Graham Dance Company, Knight Theatre, Charlotte, NC.
• Radio interview. “Martha Graham Dance Company Comes to Charlotte.” January 14, 2013. Charlotte Talks, Interview with Mike Collins, NPR station WFAE 90.7, Charlotte, NC.
• Master Class. “Dramaturgies of (Post)Modernisms: from Literature to Performance,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication Studies. 2012.

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY

She Kills Monsters by Qui Nyugen, directors Erik Johnson & Sebastian Trainor, 2019 Centre Stage production

DREW UNIVERSITY

Boys Rule by Hannah Ponturo, 2017 New Works Festival

UNC CHARLOTTE

(Director) Gone Silent by Jennifer Maisel for After Orlando

Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller, director Robin Witt

Project/Hope (devised performance), director Robin Witt

CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

New Works Festival 2011, director Rhonda Soikowski

New Work Festival 2010, director Richard E. T. White

New Works Festival 2009, director Bret Fetzer

The Good Person of Sichuan, 2009, director Megan Sandberg-Zakian

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

The Bacchae by Euripides, director Andrew Tsao

• 2018 "Design Inspiration: Inspiring Design," a live/Smartphone talkback with designers Tom Burch, Hali Hutchinson, and David Fillmore for The Children's Hour, UNC Charlotte. Director, Robin Witt. Hosted by dramaturgy student Teara Tackett. Designed by dramaturgy student Addie Moore.
• 2016 “Volkskörper: the Body of the People” for Hamletmachine, UNC Charlotte. Director Robin Witt. Guest scholar: Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies, Dr. Caroline Weist, Davidson College.
• 2014 “Writing Lives” for 4.48 Psychosis, UNC Charlotte. Director Robin Witt. An audience discussion with special guest, Ryan Claycomb, author of Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage.
• 2013 “Es Nuestro/It’s Ours: Engaging Diverse Child Audiences” with authors: Alma Flor Ada; Isabel Campoy; Assistant Professor of Theatre Education, Beth Murray; Irania Patterson; Professor Andrew Hartley; Associate Professor of English, Paula Connelly.
• 2012 “Where is Russia in Anton Chekhov’s Seagull?” for Seagull, UNC Charlotte, Director, Robin Witt. Special guest: Associate Professor of History, Dr. Dave Pretty, History Department, Winthrop University.
• 2012 “Surviving Trauma,” for Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive, UNC Charlotte. Director Lon Bumgarner, with UNC Charlotte Creative Writing faculty: Christopher Davis, poet; Aimee Parkison, fiction writer.