Teaching

I believe performance belongs to everyone, including the many students who do not think of themselves as performers. Whether I am teaching theatre majors in a studio course or non-majors in a lecture hall, my pedagogy rests on three commitments: embodied learning, play as a path to confidence, and collaborative, anti-oppressive practice. As a queer artist and a certified facilitator of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, I design classrooms that challenge the inequities built into traditional education while upholding the rigor of theatrical training.

Academic CV

Courses Taught

Acting

Fundamentals of Acting (THTRE 171), Kansas State University · Acting I (THTR 1003), CU Boulder

Improvisation

Fundamentals of Improvisation (THTRE 265), Kansas State University · Improvisation I: Thinking on Your Feet (THTR 3213), CU Boulder · Special Topics: Advanced Improvisation (THTR 4213), CU Boulder

Theatre History & Society

Theatre History I (THTRE 472), Kansas State University · Theatre & Society (THTR 1009), CU Boulder · Theatre Appreciation (THE 1005), Red Rocks Community College

Musical Theatre

American Musical Theatre History (THTR 3011), CU Boulder: redesigned syllabus, approved for diversity credit · Music Theatre Workshop (THTRE 580), Kansas State University: restructuring in progress · Broadway: The History of the American Musical (THE 2076), Red Rocks Community College: new open-access course

Guest Teaching

University of Florida · University of Northern Colorado · St. Olaf College · University of Iowa · Red Rocks Community College · CU Boulder

Workshops

Theatre of the Oppressed: Leadership Fellows Boulder County, Boulder County Early Childhood Educator Training, Roshni Healing Arts Sanctuary · Improvisation and climate communication: Leeds School of Business, CU Boulder Department of Evolutionary Biology, London, Lisbon, Berlin

workshops and classes

  • Creative Climate Communications course at CU Boulder, 2024 (Photo: rachel sauer)

  • Improv Course, CU Boulder, 2022

  • Improv Workshop in Leeds School of Business, CU Boulder, 2023

  • Theatre of the Oppressed workshop, 2026

  • Creative Climate Communications course at CU Boulder, 2024. (photo: rachel sauer)

  • "Side by Side", Inside the Greenhouse, 2020

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Berlin, 2024 (photo: Mirella Frangella)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Lisbon, 2023 (bram photography)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Berlin, 2024 (photo: Mirella Frangella)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Berlin, 2024 (photo: Mirella Frangella)

  • Climate Comedy Workshops, London, 2021

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Lisbon, 2023 (bram photography)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Lisbon, 2023 (bram photography)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Lisbon, 2023 (bram photography)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Lisbon, 2023 (bram photography)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Berlin, 2024 (photo: Mirella Frangella)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Lisbon, 2023 (bram photography)

  • SHiFT COST Action Summer School, Berlin, 2024 (photo: Mirella Frangella)

  • "Side by Side", Inside the Greenhouse, 2020