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Teaching and Coaching Resume

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Lecturer (short-term residency), Grinnell College, 2024

  • Teach two courses: Musical Theatre Scene Study and Arts Management

  • Production:  arrange and music direct a new devised piece based on Grinnell and Iowa history

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Musical Theatre Faculty, Columbia College Chicago,  2008 – 2023

  • Musical Theatre III (400-level senior BFA capstone course)

  • Musical Theatre II:  Scenes and Songs (300-level course)

  • Musical Theatre Scene Study (200-level course)

  • Musical Theater Audition Workshop (created and developed this popular course)
  • Creating a Performance (for actors in musical productions)
  • Production and Performance (for designers and musicians in productions)

  • Music direct productions:  Bat Boy, Head Over Heels, Cabaret, Urinetown, Allegro, Dog Act, Little Shop of Horrors

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Private Vocal/Audition Coach and Vocal Workshop Creator/Leader, 2003 – present

  • Offer private and group vocal coaching and musical theatre audition preparation, including rep book creation

  • Create and lead workshops with acting ensembles seeking to improve their speaking and/or singing vocal technique

  • Since 2019, vocal coach to Sandra Delgado, creator and star of La Havana Madrid and The Sandra Delgado Experience

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Music Director, Vinegar Tom at DePaul Univeristy, 2023

  • Coached singers on how to sing contemporary rock/pock in a healthy and sustainable way

  • Hired band and led music rehearsals 

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Musical Theatre Faculty, Governor's School for the Arts, Tennessee, 2022 

  • Taught and accompanied segment on musical theatre performance

  • Led workshops on musical theatre auditioning  

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Mentor

  • Maestra, 2020-2021

  • Statera Arts, 2019-2020

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Musical Director (full-time staff), Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, 2008 – 2016

  • Managed all accompaniment and music direction needs for Columbia College Theater Department

  • Participated in administration of BA in Musical Theater and BFA in Musical Theater Performance degrees

  • Music directed, supervised, and/or accompanied departmental special events and fundraisers

  • Secured high-profile guest artists for workshops and short-term residencies

  • Music directed productions:  Into the Woods, Violet, The Photographer, City on the Make, Rent, Floyd Collins, Michael John LaChiusa's The Wild Party, Chicago, and Pirates of Penzance

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Guest Teacher, Rose Bruford College UK, 2015

  • Participated in a faculty exchange between Columbia College Chicago and Rose Bruford College in the UK 

  • Co-led and accompanied workshops on musical theatre ensemble performance and audition technique

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Accompanist and Group Voice Teacher, National High School Institute, Northwestern University "Cherubs", 2012 – 2014

  • Taught group class on musical theatre singing

  • Accompanied Acting the Song classes 

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Musical Director, Roosevelt University Student Showcase, 2010

  • Music directed and accompanied sophomore showcase original song cycle

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Staff Accompanist and Vocal Coach, Columbia College Chicago Theatre Department, 2005 – 2008

  • Accompanied musical theatre and voice classes

  • Adjudicated Music Department juries for private voice students

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