About me
I primarily work as a director and costume designer, I love how these two aspects of theatre intertwine and connect. The theatre I create is heightened, beautiful, engaging and surprising, my productions are never what is expected. I love language, big stories and passionate characters.
Just as I work with heightened language I also work with heightened physicality, I focus on getting actors out of their heads and encourage them to fully embrace and embody the world of a production. I use clowning and dance techniques in order to lead my actors to creating physically interesting and heightened characters. All of my work is ensemble based, I don’t believe in having “leads” in the traditional sense. Every actor on stage is equally important in creating the world of a show.
I lead by example, I have no patience for leaders that use bullying, belittling and degrading tactics when working with their casts and crews. I believe that theatre should be fun, exciting and feed the soul for all involved. I have always been eager to lift others up around me, I genuinely believe as a theatre community we should stop seeing other artists and companies as competition, but rather we should lift others up to create a stronger, bolder more resilient community.
SELECTED DIRECTORIAL CREDITS
A WRINKLE IN TIME Theatre in the Round Players, Minneapolis 2024 (UPCOMING); THE CRUCIBLE Hang Fire Productions (with Erika Sasseville), St Paul, 2023; A LITTLE WATER Cardboard Suitcase Productions, Minneapolis 2022; VIOLENT DELIGHTS Cardboard Suitcase Productions, Minneapolis, 2019; ROMEO/JULIET Mission Theatre Minneapolis, 2017; TITUS & MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Mission Theatre Minneapolis, 2015; MACBETH & VIOLENT DELIGHTS Mission Theatre Minneapolis, 2014; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Mission Theatre Minneapoli,s, 2013; VIOLENT DELIGHTS Various production companies Melbourne & Sydney, Australia 2010, Phoenix , USA 2010; NEW MORNING Owl & Crain Sydney, Australia 2008; WACKY SHORTS MUST Melbourne, Australia 2006.
SELECTED COSTUMING CREDITS
A WRINKLE IN TIME Theatre in the Round Players(UPCOMING); THE CRUCIBLE Hang Fire Productions; A LITTLE WATER Cardboard Suitcase Productions, ROMEO/JULIET, TITUS, MUCH AOD ABOUT NOTHING, MACBETH, A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM Mission Theatre Minneapolis, USA; VIOLENT DELIGHTS Various production companies, Sydney & Melbourne, Australia, Phoenix & Minneapolis, USA; NEW MORNING Owl & Crain Sydney, Australia; REFEER MADNESS Squabbologic Sydney, Australia; THE CRUCIBLE, WACKY SHORTS MUST Melbourne, Australia; JULIUS CEASER, THE REVENGER’S TRADGEDY, CLOSER, SECRET BRIDES MAIDS BUSINESS Monash University Arts Precinct Melbourne, Australia.
SELCTED PRODUCING CREDITS
THE CRUCIBLE Hang Fire Productions; A LITTLE WATER, Cardboard Suitcase Productions; VIOLENT DELIGHTS Cardboard Suitcase Productions, Mission Theatre, Tapped Into Productions, MUST Minneapolis; ACTING ARTISITC DIRECTOR OF MUST MUST Melbourne, Australia; WACKY SHORTS MUST Melbourne, Australia.
SELECTED ACTING CREDITS
THE CRUCIBLE Elizabeth Proctor, dir Penelope Parsons-Lord (with Erika Sasseville); A LITTLE WATER Polonius, dir Penelope Parsons-Lord; VIOLENT DELIGHTS Shakespeare Ensemble Various companies, dir Penelope Parsons-Lord; MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Beatrice Mission Theatre, dir Penelope Parsons-Lord; ALICE: NIGHTMARE’S IN WONDERLAND The Duchess MUST, dir Celeste Cody & Danny Delahunty; ANTIGONE Tyrisessius Monash Performing Arts Precinct, dir Peter Oyston; THE REVENGER’S TRAGEDY The Duke (gender swapped production) Monash Performing Arts Precinct, dir Michael Coe; BOG Sally O’Mally-Bog MUST Yvonne Virsick & Jason Lehane
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Participation in the 2020 Directors Lab North; Participation in the 2019 Mediterranean Directors Lab; Monash University, Bachelor of Performing Arts; The Sydney School of Theater, Diploma of Classical Acting; Classical language training with Peter Oyston; Bouffon Training with Jason Lehane; Opera Australia, work experience in the Wardrobe Department