“This is the central conviction of the theater—that by listening closely to the lives of others, we will know ourselves more fully, and locate ourselves in a more generous world. ”

— Martha Lavey

My work and education:

I am an Associate Professor and Head of Theater at the University of New Mexico, specializing in Voice, Acting and Musical Theater. For four years previously, I served as head of the Theater program at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA. I am an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, and am a narrator for audiobooks with ACX/Audible. I am also the creator of the Vibrant Channel Breathwork™ modality of holistic actor training.

A graduate of Oberlin College (BA) and the University of Washington (MFA), I have been seen on both small and regional stages in New York, Seattle, Edinburgh, Denver, San Francisco, Cleveland, Jacksonville, New Orleans, Santa Fe, and Moscow, ID. Previously, I have taught Acting, Movement and Voice at Oberlin Theater Institute, The University of Washington, Tulane University, CUNY Hunter College, and Juniata College.

From 1990 to 2000 I was a company member of Annex, an award winning not-for-profit theater in Seattle, whose mission was to provide an artistic home for emerging artists, and a forum for new work. From 2007-2011, I was a company member of The Gravity Project, a devised theater company based in Huntingdon, PA.

Directing- Next to Normal, Twelfth Night, Pippin, Bat Boy, Polaroid Stories, Angels in America, Part I: Milennium Approaches,The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Metamorphoses, Arcadia, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Middletown, The Samuel Beckett Circus, The School for Scandal, Macbeth, Threepenny Opera, Linnell Festival, Under Milk Wood.

Specialties: Teaching pedagogy: Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Open Source Forms, Lucid Body, Skinner Releasing Technique, Viewpoints, Suzuki, Stella Adler and Meisner studio work, Linklater, Shakespeare, Musical Theatre, Singing, Dialect Coaching, Aerial Dance.

About me:

I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico with my wife, Karina, and three very waggy and hilarious dogs. I enjoy yoga, swimming, hiking, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, and watching moody detective series’, preferably with subtitles. Every October I re-watch Twin Peaks Seasons 1-3 with donuts and damn good coffee. I also sing, narrate audiobooks, act in theater and film, and direct plays and musicals in the UNM Department of Theater and Dance.