Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville NY

July 2024

August 2022

Writer's Institute

Playwriting workshop

 

This 5 day playwriting workshop is designed for teenage writers to play with the idea of what it means to write for the stage. Using a combination of freewrites, scene and monologue writing exercises, drawing, music, partner work, and movement, this workshop increases the number of tools in participants' creative toolboxes and unlocks each student's unique dramatic voice. Required materials: a notebook and a pen.

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YWCA of Ulster County, Kingston NY

June-August 2022

lead teaching artist in residence & arts curriculum development consultant

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In 2022 I served as lead teaching Artist in Residence and arts curriculum development consultant for the Bridge to Build program at the Magic Circle School. I designed an arts-based curriculum for 5 & 6-year-olds that spanned artistic mediums, with a focus on increasing self esteem, creating opportunities for joy and play, and introducing students to the concept of process over product in artmaking. Concurrent with curriculum development for preschoolers, I also designed and implemented writing workshops for the teen mentors hired by the Build to Bridge program. The inaugural Bridge to Build program concluded with a youth-led and professional artist-designed mural painted directly on the wall of the YWCA​'s downstairs learning room. 

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Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute, Irvington, NY

June 2013-August 2019

teaching artist: Ugly Comics workshops

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I designed a series of Ugly Comics workshops for middle and high school-age students that I taught during EFLI's innovative summer leadership programs for young women. These workshops used writing, drawing, and theater exercises to teach students the value of focusing on process over product, how to trust their creative impulses, and learn about vulnerability through journaling and work-sharing opportunities.