DIRECTOR & WRITER
Directing Resume
Professional
The Resurrection of Alice by Perri Gaffney
Harriet Returns by Karen Jones Meadows
Linda Means to Wait by Linda Sithole
Everyday Divas by Elisa Perry
Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
Southern Accents Adapted by Shona Tucker
Blue (workshop) by Charles Randolph-Wright
The National Black Theatre Festival
The Acting Company
The Blue Heron Theater
The Producers Club
Harlem Theatre Company
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Arena Stage
Academia
Gem of the Ocean
Crimes of the Heart
Measure for Measure
El perro sato (a staged reading)
Tartuffe
Flyin’ West
Southern Exposure
Spunk: Three Tales
The African Company Presents Richard III
Flyin’ West
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
Hot’l Baltimore
University of Louisville
Vassar College
Vassar College
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
University of Evansville
Ramapo College
Ramapo College
Ramapo College
NYU Grad Acting Director’s Lab
NYU Grad Acting Director’s Lab
Ramapo College
Training
Director’s Lab - NYU Graduate Acting
Fulbright Scholarship in the Oral Tradition of the Yoruba People, Obafemi Owolowo University, Nigeria
MFA - Graduate Acting Program, NYU
BS - Theater and Interpretation Department, Northwestern University
Writing Resume
Original Works
Mississippi Mud: A trilogy based in the South about Afro-American Women and their journey to selfhood
1. Mississippi Mud: The coming of age story of Patsy Hubbard, Jr., a tall, angular, gangly sheltered black girl of the Alabama small town of Aliceville. In a heightened story theater style, we journey with Patsy as she discovers some harsh realities about her world.
May 2020 Zoom Production Vassar College
2. Growing Wild: A one woman show with music which speaks to one African American woman’s struggle for definition and grapples with a thirty year old family mystery that continues to haunt and shape lives today.
2019 Reading New York Theatre Workshop
2018 Workshop Liberation Theater Company
3. Trippin’ Through Mud: a comic, soul-searching travel journey from Kentucky to Mississippi past and present.
Spring 2019 Reading Vassar College
Summer 2017 Reading Studio Tisch
The Oral Tradition of the Oral Tradition, or When Wahala Comes: A one-woman show, about a young student's journey through Nigeria while on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Spring 2003 New York Theatre Workshop
Project Breakthru: a play of comedic, poignant vignettes that explore racial and cultural divides in America.
Co-wrote and performed in venues of the Catholic Diocese throughout Louisville, KY
Adaptations
Southern Exposure: Short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote and William Melvin Kelley
Ramapo College
The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Flannery O'Connor
NYU's Graduate Acting Director's Lab
Southern Accents Series: Short stories by William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Katherine Anne Porter and Carson McCullers
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
The Women of Brewster Place
NYU Grad Acting Program
Training
MFA - NYU Graduate Acting, BS - Northwestern University
Gotham Writers Workshop, 2011 Writers Retreat with April Yvette Thompson,
E-Script Workshop for Playwrights with Lucy Wang