I’ve been directing theatre since 1985, working across classical theatre, new plays, solo performance, musical theatre, public readings, artist residencies, and community-based production.
My directing practice begins with the actor and the text. I’m interested in what can happen when performance, language, space, and the particular artists in the room are allowed to shape one another rather than being forced into a predetermined result.
Recent Directing
2027
On Track
Arizona Theatre Matters / Glendale International Fringe Festival
Glendale, Arizona
2026
Mackers
Arizona Theatre Matters
Lear: A Solo Adaptation
Arizona Theatre Matters
Ghosts of the Gilded Stage
Arizona Theatre Matters
2021–2025
2025
Even Unto Death — public reading
Arizona Theatre Matters, Glendale, Arizona
2023
Under Milk Wood
Arizona Theatre Matters
2022
Kindertransport
Adelson Theatre, Las Vegas, Nevada
2022
When Churchyards Yawn — public reading
Arizona Theatre Matters
2021
Pineapple and Other Options
Arizona Theatre Matters
Selected Directing Credits
2000–2006
2006
As You Like It
Nevada Shakespeare Company
2005
A Single Woman
The Culture Project / Nevada Shakespeare Company
2003
King Lear
Nevada Shakespeare Company, Reno
2002
The Trojan Women
Nevada Shakespeare Company
2001
Richard III
Nevada Shakespeare Company
2000
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Nevada Shakespeare Company
2000
Annie Get Your Gun
Nevada Shakespeare Company
2000
Hamlet
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1990–1999
1999
Steel Magnolias
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1997
Night Game
Odd Duck Studios, Seattle
1996
The Diary of Anne Frank
Actors Repertory Theatre, Las Vegas
1995
The Corn Is Green
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1994
The Tempest
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1993
Steel Magnolias
Summer Palace, Pullman, Washington
1992
The Woolgatherer
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1992
Women Heroes
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1991
’Night, Mother
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1991
Painting Churches
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1990
Under Milk Wood
Theatre on Broadway, Denver
1990
Cost of Innocence
Denver Center / Colorado Dramatists
1980s
1989
Quilters
Nevada Shakespeare Company
Inaugural production
1988
Greater Tuna
Ramada Showroom, Reno
1986–1987
Richard (or a visit to a small Plantagenet)
Reno Shakespeare Festival
1986
Here We Are
Reno Shakespeare Festival
Earlier work also included The Fantasticks, approached through ideas drawn from Poland’s Poor Theatre, and a contact-improvisation-inflected You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
During these years I also worked extensively as an artist-in-residence for the Nevada Arts Council and Sierra Arts Foundation, directing school, community, and residency productions throughout the region.
From the Archive
Richard III remains one of my favorite productions from the Nevada Shakespeare years. Most of the surviving production photographs happen to come from that show, along with a few from King Lear.
