Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Experience:

Directing for Playwrights
NYU Tisch, Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing
2001 – 2005 (Syllabus available upon request.)

Directing, Collaboration
Manhattan Theatre Source
2000 - Present

Acting, Text Analysis, Rehearsal Process and Production
Stuyvesant High School
1998

Acting, Rehearsal Process and Production
Suffolk Community College
1997

Acting, Text Analysis
Berkshire Theatre Festival
2001 – Present

Produced Works:

  • Sidd, (a musical inspired by Siddhartha by Herman Hesse), book and lyrics by Andrew Frank, Lyrics and Score by Doug Silver
  • FireFly - a feature film co-written and directed with Mitchel Riggs.
  • Sweet Pushes, Tangy Pulls - A play with food. produced by Ripple Productions
  • In Search of a Goddess - inspriation of the devine enchantress Ruth St. Denis
    a dance/theatre play written with Fran Kirmser
  • Isadora . . . No Apologies – a dance/theatre play commissioned and produced by the Isadora Duncan Foundation for the Dance.
  • Eatin’ Alive, co-written and developed with Mimi Wyche. First produced at the Warehouse Theatre in Greensboro S.C. Currently touring colleges in the South East.
  • Truth in Lies, a screenplay in development by Camilla Films in association with Digital Source. Filming to start fall 2004
  • Alice’s Head, Chocolate Kisses, three short musicals book and lyrics by Andrew Frank and Ed McNamee, Lyrics and Score by Doug Silver
  • Monthly Arts Columnist for the Queens Examiner, 1996

 

Executive/Administrative/Technical:

Manhattan Theatre Source
1998 - Present

  • Fundraising, Development, Recruiting
  • All technical elements – Lighting, Sound, Scenic Elements as well as regular maintenance, and building restoration
  • Writer/collaborator of the Manhattan Theatre Source mission statement, by laws and house rules (available upon request)
  • Curator of “StudioSource” – A division of Manhattan Theatre Source - An ongoing series of classes and master classes.
  • Responsibilities include: Hiring and contact with all teachers, registration, scheduling
  • Classes include Directing, Acting, and Voice, Scene Design, Lighting Design, Script Analysis, and more.
  • Master Class guests have included Mercedes Ruehl and Marshall Mason

Synchronicity Space
1997, 1998

  • Supervisor of all production elements with visiting companies and resident companies
  • Contracts and scheduling for main stage theatre and off-nights – 20 main stage and 50 off-nights a year.

Berkshire Theatre Festival
1994, 1995

  • Scheduling, class organizing and production coordinating.