CV
b. 1985 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Lives and works in Seattle Metropolitan Area

EDUCATION

2013  | MA, Arts Administration and Policy, Fellow, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
2008 | BA, Theatre Arts, Summa Cum Laude, University of Pittsburgh.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2017  
Dancing with IV, ArtWorks (CEI), Corvallis.
The Methotrexate Ballet, ArtWorks (CEI), Corvallis.

2014
Family Portraits, Fiore’s, Boston.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

2017
Untitled, TOTALITY, Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis.

2016
Untitled, Free Noise Show, Interzone, Corvallis.
Untitled with Christopher Durnin, Free Noise Show, Interzone, Corvallis.
Looking West for Bruce Burris, c3:initiative, Portland2016, Portland.
Untitled with Steph Walker, Interzone, Corvallis.

2015
Wake, ROT: The Afterlife of Trees, World Forestry Center, Portland.
Wake, ROT: The Afterlife of Trees, The Arts Center, Corvallis.
Insects of South Corvallis, Taylor Street Ovens, inVISIBLE nano Festival, Corvallis.

2009
Paper Moon Photo Booth, First Night Pittsburgh (now known as Highmark First Night Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh.
Homeland Insecurity, ArtUp, Three Rivers Arts Festival (now known as Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival), Pittsburgh.
Corpo Illicito: The Post Human Society #69 with Roberto Sifuentes and Guillermo Gómez-Peña of La Pocha Nostra, Three Rivers Arts Festival (now known as Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival), Pittsburgh.
Workshop Participant, Performance Art Residency, with Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes, ArtUp, Pittsburgh.

2005
Untitled with Erik Harker, Visual Artist, Equipoise Couples Edition, ArtUp, Pittsburgh.

THEATER

2009
Strange Democracy: An Evening with Spoken Word Brujo Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Technical Director, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh. 
Homeland Insecurity, Technical Director, Three Rivers Arts Festival (now known as Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival), Pittsburgh. 
Lubberland National Dance Company’s 27 Dirt-Cheap Money Dances presented by Bread and Puppet Theatre, Performer and Puppeteer, Pittsburgh G-20 Summit, Pittsburgh.

2008
Lysistrata, Director, University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre (now known as University of Pittsburgh Stages), Pittsburgh.

2007
A Memory of Two Mondays, Director, University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre (now known as University of Pittsburgh Stages), Pittsburgh.

2006
Gypsies & Crickets, Assistant Director, Three Rivers Arts Festival (now known as Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival), Pittsburgh.            Gypsies & Crickets, Assistant Director, The Pittsburgh International Children’s Festival, Pittsburgh.

2005
Faust: A Masked Telling, Assistant Director, Three Rivers Arts Festival (now known as Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival), Pittsburgh.

ARTS & CULTURE MANAGEMENT

2014 – 2015   
inVISIBLE nano festival, Co-Organizer & Public Relations Liaison, Corvallis.

2013               
Actual Fiction, Co-Curator, Dfbrl8r Gallery, Chicago.

2012 – 2013   
Art Consultant, Gilda’s Club, Chicago.

2012               
Administrative Director, Student Union Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
When the Hairy Blob, Co-Curator, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

2008 – 2009   
Gallery Preparator, Three Rivers Arts Festival (now known as Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival) Flyspace Productions, Pittsburgh.
Gallery Preparator,  First Night Pittsburgh (now known as Highmark First Night Pittsburgh), Flyspace Productions, Pittsburgh.

2008               
30 Below [Part 2], Curator, ArtUp, Pittsburgh.

2007               
30 Below [Part 1], Curator, ArtUp, Pittsburgh.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

2015 – 2017
Information Specialist, The Valley Library, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

2015 – 2017
Grants Committee Member, Volunteer, The Whiteside Theatre, Corvallis.

2014 – 2016
Public Relations and Marketing + Planning Committee Member, The Co. Maker Fair, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

2013 – 2017   
Co-Founder, Lead of Wealth and Wellness Initiatives, PLURAL, pluralculture.org.

2013   
Family Programs Volunteer, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston.

2012              
Family Programs Intern, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

2011 – 2012
Board Member, The Enrichment Fund, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

2010 – 2012
Standardized Patient Scheduling Specialist, Advanced Clinical Education Center, The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh.

2008
Project Manager, “Magarac Attack!”, Three Rivers Arts Festival (now known as Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival), Pittsburgh.

2005 – 2010
Standardized Patient, Advanced Clinical Education Center, The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh.

TEACHING

2016
Teaching Artist, Collaborative Employment Innovations (CEI), Corvallis.
Teaching Artist and Panel Moderator, “I Can Create: Arts and Disability Workshop”, University of Washington at Vancouver.

2015 – 2016
University Instructor, MIME248 Engineering Graphics and 3D Modeling, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

2015
Teaching Artist, inVISIBLE nano festival, Corvallis.

2014
Performance Artist-in-Residence, inVISIBLE nano festival, Corvallis.

2013
Teaching Artist, Open Art Studio, Gilda’s Club, Chicago.

2009
Teaching Artist, Acting Up, Gilda’s Club of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh.

2005
Teaching Artist, Ellis School and Hope Academy, First Night Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.

AWARDS  & GRANTS

2017
$16,000 Grant to the Whiteside Theater from Oregon Arts Commission, Co-Author.

2016
$5,000 Grant to the Whiteside Theater from the Miller Foundation, Co-Author.

2012
$500 Academic Research Travel Grant, Department of Arts Administration and Policy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2008
$500 Grant for production of Lysistrata from the Office of Experiential Research, University of Pittsburgh.
Best Undergraduate Director of the Year, University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre (now known as University of Pittsburgh Stages).

2007
Best Undergraduate Director of the Year, University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre (now known as University of Pittsburgh Stages).