Educator
My journey as an educator began in 2020. As an undergraduate, I became a teaching artist intern with Beyond the Page (BtP) , a Middlebury College-affiliated program that brings theatre practices into classrooms and communities. I have since been BtP’s program assistant and now serve as a program associate. In addition to logistic and operations administration, my work at Beyond the Page includes being on the leadership team and developing engagement plans and pedagogy. Inspired by my history as an intern, one of my primary projects with BtP is developing the internship program into a teaching artistry training program.
In January 2024, I developed and taught a new class, Investigating Musical Theatre, for the Middlebury College Department of Music. We looked at musical theatre as a creative process, breaking the form down into its three key elements—acting, singing, and dancing. Each element was scaffolded to help students explore their artistry, cultivate new skills, and build upon preexisting strengths. Throughout the term, students researched a musical of their choosing with their work culminating in a final performance and research zine.
I’ve also had the great privilege of joining the Bread Loaf School of English’s Acting Ensemble in the summers of 2022 and 2023. In addition to making at least one production every summer, the BLSE Acting Ensemble works with faculty to develop class visits that engage a text or idea in a new, embodied light.
As a teaching artist, I am interested in personal storytelling, play, curiosity, risk, joy, discourse, warmth, and accessibility.
Above: Beyond the Page visit with Professor Gregory Pask’s Entomology class. Middlebury College, November 2023.
Left: Beyond the Page visit with Professor Melissa Hammerle’s Conflict Transformation: Mindfulness Skills as Educational Praxis class. Middlebury College, March 2024.
Investigating Musical Theatre class picture. Middlebury College, January 2024.
“Teaching artistry is a worldview, an expansion of the artist’s view. It includes the fascination with the innate artistry in all people and excitement to discover what all people can create—from making connections inside artworks to making creative solutions to social problems.”