_Available for:
*IMPROV WORKSHOPS* middle school - adult
*CLOWN WORKSHOPS* adult/ensemble
*ACTING/AUDITION COACHING* middle school - adult

Experience includes:
- Writing/performance residencies (third through fifth grade) with Barrel of Monkeys, four years and counting
- Early childhood education classes (ages six months to six years), specifically preschool preparation, music, art, after-school yoga, and imagination with Bubbles Academy, four years and counting
- After-school drama program (kindergarten through second grade) with Dewey Elementary in Evanston, created process-based curriculum, one year

- various improv workshops with middle-school students throughout the Chicagoland area
- various clown workshops (to create a foundation for ensemble) with adults,  created curriculum

Training and education:
- BA in Theatre from Northwestern University with a special concentration in Creative Drama (Betsy Quinn and Rives Collins), internship program with Haven Middle School (sixth through eighth grade drama classes)
- American Alliance for Theatre and Education Conference participant, Atlanta 2008
- extensive improvisation training with the conservatory programs at io and Second City
- extensive clown and physical theatre training with 500 Clown, Paola Coletto, Avner the Eccentric, the Red Bastard (bouffon), Jon Sherman (bouffon) and Philippe Gaulier