ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP
Producing Artistic Director - Open Eye Theatre (2017-present)
Freelance Director & Stage Designer (1990-present)
Associate Artistic Director - Jungle Theater, Minneapolis (2007-2010)
Acting Artistic Director - Jungle Theater, Minneapolis (2009)
Founding Artistic Director - Mary Worth Theater Company (1994-2003)
Resident Assistant Director - Theatre de la Jeune Lune (1990-93)
Advisory Board Member - Girl Friday Productions (2009-present)
RECENT & UPCOMING PROJECTS
Runestone-The Musical - History Theatre - Scenic Designer
Twelfth Night - Macalester College - Scenic Designer
The Red Shoes - Open Eye Theatre - Writer/Director/Designer
STAGE DIRECTION & DESIGN
Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike, Christopher Durang - Director
The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow - Director
Nine Parts of Desire, Heather Raffo - Director & Scenic Designer
Pericles, William Shakespeare - Director/Adapter
Blue Stockings, Jessica Swale (Guthrie BFA program) - Director
The American Clock, Arthur Miller (Guthrie BFA program) - Scenic Designer
All My Sons, Arthur Miller - Assistant Director to Joe Dowling
Jungle Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Annapurna, Sharr White - Director & Scenic Designer
The Night Alive, Conor McPherson - Director & Scenic Designer
Detroit, Lisa D'Amour - Director & Scenic Designer
Venus In Fur, David Ives - Director & Scenic Designer
The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter - Director & Scenic Designer
Noises Off!, Michael Frayne - Director & Scenic Designer
I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright- Director & Scenic Designer
Next Fall, Geoffrey Nauffts - Director & Scenic Designer
The Mystery of Irma Vep, Charles Ludlam - Director & Scenic Designer
Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward - Director & Scenic Designer
The Seafarer, Conor McPherson - Director & Scenic Designer
Mary’s Wedding, Stephen Massicotte - Director & Scenic Designer
Shipwrecked!, Donald Margulies - Director & Scenic Designer
Crime and Punishment, Campbell/Columbus - Director & Scenic Designer
Hitchcock Blonde, Terry Johnson - Director & Scenic Designer
Souvenir, Stephen Temperley - Director & Scenic Designer
Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell - Director & Scenic Designer
The Syringa Tree, Pamela Gien - Director & Scenic Designer
Shining City, Conor McPherson - Director & Scenic Designer
I Am My Own Wife, Doug Wright - Director & Scenic Designer
The Last of the Boys, Steven Dietz - Scenic Designer
K2, Patrick Meyers - Scenic Designer
Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Oregon.
The Heart of Robin Hood, David Farr - Director - American Premiere
Arizona Theatre Company, Tucson, Arizona.
Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike, Christopher Durang - Director
The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow - Director
California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley, California.
Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare - Director
Macbeth, William Shakespeare - Director/Adapter
Pericles, William Shakespeare - Director/Adapter
Park Square Theatre, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilder - Girl Friday Productions/Park Square Theatre - Director & Scenic Designer
Hamlet, William Shakespeare - Park Square Theater - Director, Adaptor & Scenic Designer
The Realistic Joneses, Will Eno - Director & Scenic Designer
Great Expectations, adapted from Dickens - Director & Adaptor
Good People, David Lindsay-Abaire - Director & Scenic Designer
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens/Neil Bartlett - Director, Adaptor & Scenic Designer
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee - Scenic Designer
The Triumph of Love, Marivaux - Director & Scenic Designer
Noises Off!, Michael Frayn - Director & Scenic Designer
Dirty Blonde, Claudia Shear - Director & Scenic Designer
The Mystery of Irma Vep, Charles Ludlam - Director & Scenic Designer
A Tale of Two Cities, adapted from Dickens - Scenic Designer
The Left Hand Singing, Barbara Lebow- Scenic Designer
Gee’s Bend, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder - Scenic Designer
The Odyssey, Randy Beard - Scenic Designer
History Theater, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Courting Harry, Lee Blessing (World Premiere) - Director & Scenic Designer
The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, Jessica Huang (World Premiere) - Scenic Designer
A Civil War Christmas , Paula Vogel - Scenic Designer
Open Eye Figure Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Red Shoes (World Premiere) - Writer, Director & Scenic Designer
Nothing Is Something (World Premiere) - Director & Scenic Designer
Greatest Hits & Juicy Bits, Kevin Kling (World Premiere) - Director & Scenic Designer
Artistry, Bloomington, Minnesota.
Next To Normal, Tom Kitt/Brian Yorkley - Director & Scenic Designer
Talley's Folly, Lanford Wilson - Scenic Designer
The Music Man, Meredith Willson - Scenic Designer
Mary Worth Theatre Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Co-Founder/Artistic Director. Stage Director, Scenic Designer and Producer for over 14 productions, including:
Crazyface, Clive Barker
The Race of the Ark Tattoo, W. David Hancock
Shakespeare’s R & J, Joe Calarco
The History of the Devil, Clive Barker
Tabloid Dreams, various
The Gods Are Thirsty: A Tale of the French Revolution, devised
Out of the Dust, devised
Titus Andronicus, William Shakespeare
Madame de Sade, Yukio Mishima
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, devised
Lunatic Cellmates, devised
Valley of the Dolls, devised
Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Lettice and Lovage, Peter Schaffer - Director & Scenic Designer
Assistant Director & Production Manager on the following productions: Il Campiello, Puntila and Matti, The Nightingale, Crusoe and Friday, The Ballroom, Children of Paradise, Some People’s Kids (multiple tours and residencies in Midwest and New England).
Theatre in the Round, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Dark of the Moon, H. Richardson/W. Berney - Director & Scenic Designer
Marat/Sade, Peter Weiss - Director & Scenic Designer
M. Butterfly, David Hwang - Director & Scenic Designer
Other Arts Institutions
University of Minnesota: The Rover, Frankenstein, Arabian Nights, Black Comedy, The Rocky Horror Show; Macalester College: The Rover; Mixed Blood Theatre: The History of Bowling; Hidden Theatre:The Sparrow Project; University of Wisconsin-River Falls: Tartuffe; Hamline University: Dracula; Cheap Theatre: Leaves; Steppingstone Theater for Youth: The Gift of the Swallow; Red Eye Collaboration: Translations from the Book of Enoch; Playwrights’ Center: (Staged Readings) Spinoza’s Nose, Alles Clara, Dead Wait
EDUCATION
B.A. in Theater, cum Laude - University of Wisconsin, Green Bay