Experience Summary
I have over thirty years experience teaching Theatre and Language Arts for public and private educational and performance organizations, including elementary school through junior college classes, and a mime/movement class at Yale University. I have studied at UCLA, San Francisco State University, the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven CT, and the New School for Social Research in New York City. I've also participated in workshops and performance opportunities with trainers in the styles of Bolivia's Augusto Boal, Sanford Meisner, and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Drama and English students of mine have had widespread success in furthering their educations and careers.
Teaching Style
I'm a fairly intense and mellow person. Focus on specifics comes from an understanding of the goals and overall needs of a given project. Who's my audience and what details do I need to gather to make my point or reveal my position? I prefer leading students to answers using questioning and on-your-feet-experience.
My Hobbies
guitar and singing, softball, politics, TV and films.
| Creative Writing |
 This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Experienced
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| Taught creative writing to high school and young adult students for Laney College in Oakland. Subjects include working with poetry, storytelling, dialogue, playwriting, movie treatments. |
| Drama |
This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Expert
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| Extensive experience as teacher, actor, director, and writer with success on both coasts in public and private venues. Focus is on personal development in artistic and professional efforts. |
| Shakespeare |
This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Experienced
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| Acted in and directed several of Shakespeare's plays in the Bay Area and in New England. Shakespeare's work can be approached as theatrical literature or as poetry - and as both. Study includes scansion, and content and language analysis. |