Leadership
My leadership experiences ranges from chairing governance committees and serving as a representative on steering committees, panels, and task forces to coordinating residencies and conferences and everything in between. I’ve also been recognized by a number of award committees, and with grants and fellowships. Scroll down, or use the buttons to see the full breadth of my leadership work.
University of Puget Sound:
- Cross functional Steering Committee for Comprehensive Program Review; Chair of Responsibility Center/Finance Subcommittee, 2021-2022
- Co-Chair, Committee to Recommend Principles for the Renaming of Buildings, 2021
- Governance Review Committee, 2020-2021
- Budget Task Force, 2020-2022
- Curriculum Task Force, 2018-2020
- Benefits Task Force, 2017-2019
- Faculty Senate Chair, 2018-2020
- Co-Chair Race & Pedagogy Conference Arts and Special Events Committee, 2017-2018
- Faculty Senator, 2017
Board Member
- Northwest Playwright’s Alliance (NPA), 2013-2018
Program Leader and Conference Planning
- Co-leader and Coordinator of UO Spring Workshops at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 2011
- Theatre History Symposium Co-Chair, Mid America Theatre Conference, 2009-2011
Emerging Scholars Symposium Co-Chair, Mid America Theatre Conference, 2007-2009 - Co-Planner, “International Dramaturgy: Translations and Transformations” A Symposium on the Theater of Timberlake Wertenbaker, Georgetown University, March 30-April 2, 2006
- Residency coordinator for campus visit of Plasticene Physical Theatre Company to Illinois Wesleyan University, 2005
Artistic Administration
- Joseph Jefferson Awards Arts and Technical Team, Chicago, IL, 2001-2002
- House Manager/ Reservations Manager, Timeline Theatre Company, Chicago, 2000-2001
- Artistic Intern, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago, 1999-2000
- Co-founder and director, Gloriana Productions, Women’s Theatre Collective, 1997-2000
Department Service
University Service
- VP Enrollment Candidate Interview panel, 2017
- Presidential Candidate Faculty Interview panel, 2016
- Curriculum Committee, 2012-2015
- Susan Resneck Pierce Lecture Committee, 2011-2020
- Phi Beta Kappa Committee on Membership in Course, 2013
- Phi Beta Kappa Chapter President, 2016-2017, Vice President 2014-2016
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
- Dirk Andrew Phibbs Memorial Research Award, University of Puget Sound, 2019
- Thomas A. Davis Dean’s Teaching Award, University of Puget Sound, 2015
- Guest Artist at University of Washington Tacoma: Directed inaugural stage production in UWT’s Broadcast Theatre, a blackbox space affiliated with the UWT writing program, 2014
- Matthew Norton Clapp Guest Artist Grant: “Staging New Works: Facets of Design and Dramaturgy,” bringing visits from six nationally profiled theatre artists across the 2014-2015 academic year
- Martin Nelson Summer Research Award, University of Puget Sound, 2012
- Junior Professorship Development Fund Grant, University of Oregon, 2010
- Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Achievement Award: Certificate of Merit for Ensemble Performance of Around the World in 80 Days, 2009
- Oregon Humanities Center Grant in support of Futura reading for The Year of the Book events
- Gerald Kahan Award for best essay in theatre studies by a younger scholar, American Society of Theatre Research (for 2006 publication in Theatre Survey), 2007
- Humanities Series Occasional Grant for Plasticene Theatre Residency, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2005
- Artistic and Scholarly Development Grant, Illinois Wesleyan University, 2003
- Dissertation Fellowship and Travel Fellowship, UW-Madison. Competitive University-wide Honor, 2000
- McKechnie-Judson Award for Achievement in the Arts, UW-Madison, University-wide Honor, 1999
- Communications-B Teaching Fellow, University-wide Honor
- Ross T. Quint Scholar, UW-Madison, 1998
- Fredric March Scholar, UW-Madison, 1997
- Academic Fellow, UW-Madison. Full year salary support for academic achievement, 1995-1996
- Sky Cup Award for Student Media and Acceptance of Diversity, University of Puget Sound, 1995