Special Events
- Founder and Grant writer for the Visual and Performing Arts
Magnet for Orange County Public Schools, Orlando, FL, with over
400 students, 14 faculty members, 1993-97
- Grant writer for federal, state and local grants for arts magnet
- Recipient of Title III ECIA grant for the Performing Arts/inner-city
high school drama program, 1984-87
Experience
Experienced with coordinating, casting, rehearsing and directing
talent, managing large rehearsal spaces and large casts as well
as intimate productions with small casts. Teaching and preparing
the individual for success using "your personal plus"
approach. Recognized for assisting the actor in reaching and discovering
potential through positive energy and personal focus: team work,
managerial style, high standards of production quality and cost
effectiveness, dealing effectively with all technical and financial
demands of a production.
Director, ACT III Acting Studio, emphasizing acting, auditioning,
interviewing techniques for Television, film and stage.
Director of Theatre, Dr. Phillips High School, Orlando, FL
Drama, Acting Technique, Stagecraft, Lighting & Sound, Playwriting,
Costuming
Directorial Highlights
Private students featured in national commercials, television
episodes and film:
Passenger 57, Parenthood, My Brother and Me, Clarissa Explains It
All, Welcome Freshmen, The Adventures of Shelby Woo.
National Commercials: Snikers, Checkers, Minute Rice
Past students include Wesley Snipes, Blade, Demolition Man, Rising
Sun: Wayne Brady of the new Drew Carey show, Whose Line is it Anyway
and Vinyl Justice: Joey Fatone of N'SYNC: Jennifer McGill and Josh
Ackerman of The New Mickey Mouse Club.
Production Highlights: West Side Story, Into the Woods, Crazy For
You, Damn Yankees, Once on this Island, Dancing at Lughnasa, Biloxi
Blues, Lost in Yonkers, SPUNK, I'm Not Rappaport, Death of a Salesman,
Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Hamlet, Macbeth, Tweltfh Night,
Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest.
Related Experiences
- Quest Productions, Art Department, Dream Trap
Hugh Parks, Producer; Tom Logan, Director
- Universal Studios, Grip/gaffer, Sealed With A Kiss
Rick Rietveld, Producer: Ralph Clemente, Director
- Writer and developer of Drama Curriculum for Orange County Public
Schools
- Writer and creator of student study guide for Civic Theatre
School Tour of Children of a Lesser God and Hunting Cockroaches
Awards/Recognition
- 1998 and 1997 National Distinguished Teacher, awarded by Presidential
Committee for Scholars in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
- International Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Scotland,
American High School Festival, 1995, Inaugural Troupe, one of
8 in the nation
- First Place Superior Productions State Thespian Society, 15
years
- Florida Theatre Conference First Place Winner, 1997, 1995, 1993
- Florida State Thespian Mainstage Invitations/Performances 1999,
1997, 1995, 1993, 1991, 1988
- 1988 Teacher of the Year, Dr. Phillips High School, FL
- 1986 Teacher of the Year, Jones High School, FL
Educational Background
MS, Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
BS, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
Related Activities
Presidential Recognition as a 1998 & 1997 Distinguished Teacher
in the Arts, met the President in Washington, D.C., with performance
by student at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Performance/educational 9-day trip to Salem, MA, performance of
The Crucible at the Old Manse, Concord, MA
Performances and travel to Edinburgh, Scotland as one of the first
8 schools chosen to represent the United States in the American
High School Theatre Festival at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1995
Florida Thespian Society State Board Member
Florida Theatre Conference (FTC) member since 1991
Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Secondary Member/Presenter
PDK member since 1982
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