RESUME

Educational Background

Currently working on Master of Creative Writing, Northwestern University
B.S. English/Theater Secondary Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Additional courses taken after graduation include:
Advanced Directing, Stage Lighting--both UW-M
Studies in Teaching the Talented and Gifted--UW-Whitewater
Independent Study: UW-Parkside:
Developing the Middle School Drama Program,
Directing the Musical
Writing the Novel
UW-Madison:
Theater Design

Recent Publications:
"The Difference," short story, Cicada
Regular Freelance Articles: Living on the Lake,Prairies North

Work Experience

CURRENTLY: Freelance writer and Substitute Teacher
Editor: General Learning Communications
Writer/Editor, The Write Source, Educational Development House
English/Drama Teacher/Director, Burlington Area School District
Reporter/Editor, Souther Lake Media:
Editor, Southern Lakes Alive!
Weekly features newspaper for Southern Lakes Media, circulation: 51,000.
Special Features Editor for Southern Lakes Media, in charge of all special sections.
Teacher, Middle School Remedial Language Skills, Burlington Area School District

Directing Experience

Union Grove High School
"Working"
Burlington High School
"Anything Goes," "Diary of Anne Frank"
"A Christmas Carol" (Original musical) traveling show
"The Cave," Forensic one-act, to Sectionals
"The Boy Friend," "Spoon River Anthology"
"Christmas Attitudes" traveling show
"Crying Out," Forensics one-act, awards at State
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
"The Pied Piper" (Original play) traveling show
"Working," Forensic one-act, awards at State
"Little Shop of Horrors"
"Fairy Tales Go To Court," BHS Drama Club Touring Show
"The Romancers," Forensic competition one-act
"Heaven Can Wait"
"The Queen of Winternet," BHS Drama Club Touring Show
"Voices From The High School,"(earned 4 first-place Awards at WHSFA State forensics competition)
Burlington Middle School

"You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown"
"Fiddler on the Roof"
"Oliver!"
"Bye Bye Birdie"
"Broadway to Burlington"

Area High Schools

Westosha High School: "Oliver!" "Bus Stop" "Spoon River Anthology"
Union Grove High School: "Anything Goes"
University of Maryland-College Park: "Theatre of Peretz," "Ellis Island"

Wisconsin Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented: "Kaleidoscope"
---(Commissioned musical, wrote and directed for their annual convention

Holy Redeemer College: "The Ugly Duckling"

Plays and musicals, all produced

Sunday School Musicals
"The Chanukah Glow"
"A Purim Play"
"Follow the Hammer"
"The American Jew Revue"
"A Christmas Story"

Secular Musicalsbr "Grimm and Bear It"
"Kaleidoscope"
"The Twelve Months"
"The Love Potion"
"The Pied Piper"

Community Theater

Burlington Haylofters, Inc., Burlington, Wisconsin:

"The Fantasticks"
"Dear World"
"Picnic"
"The Odd Couple (Female Version)"
"The Twelve Months"
----(original children's musical)(Done two different years)
"Hello, Dolly!"
"Oliver!" "Two by Two"
"Grimm and Bear It" (Children's musical)
"Any Wednesday"
"Toys in the Attic"
"The Enchanted Attic"
"The Pied Piper" (Children's Adaptation)

Lakeland Players, Elkhorn
"My Fair Lady"

Town Hall Players, Honey Creek
"High Spirits"

Acting/Singing Experience

Haylofters: Vera, "Mame"
Haylofters: Golde, "Fiddler on the Roof"
Haylofters: Witch, "Into The Woods"
Holy Redeemer College: Mrs. Crummles, "Nicholas Nickleby"
Bowie Community Theater: Reno Sweeney, "Anything Goes"
Parkland Junior College: Lily, "Red Peppers"
University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign: Chorus
"The Rake's Progress"
"Manon"
"La Boheme"
"L'Elisir D'Amore"
Urbana Parks Dept.
"Showboat"
University of Illinois Concert Choir
Jester, "Once Upon A Mattress"
Skylight Opera Theater, Milwaukee: Chorus
"HMS Pinafore"
"Pirates of Penzance"
"The Pearl Fishers"
"Eugene Onegin"
"El Capitan"
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Concert Choir
UW-Milwaukee: Deborah, "More Stately Mansions"
UW-Whitewater: The Girl, "Hello Out There"
Haylofters: Dr. Finsdale, "Li'l Abner"
Haylofters: Connie, "Come Blow Your Horn"
Haylofters: Stepmother, "Hansel & Gretel" Haylofters: Witch, "Pale Pink Dragon"

Awards and Honors

Director's Award, WHSFA (Wisconsin High School Forensics Association) Print Media Award, Wisconsin Association of Technical Colleges
Wisconsin Poets' Calendar: "March"
Meritorious Service Award, Wisconsin Assocation of Educators of the Gifted and Talented

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