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.

Administrative & Organizational Leadership

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

  • Theatre Arts History/Dramaturgy Tenure Line Search Committee 2018-2019
  • Theatre Arts Acting/Directing Tenure Line Search Committee, 2012-2013
  • Theatre Arts Curriculum Review, 2013-2014

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