One of my undergraduate degrees was a B.S. in Secondary Education. I taught at Altoona Area High School for two years as a theatre and English teacher and the director of the drama program.
While I was pursuing my M.F.A. at the University of Iowa, I was the instructor of record for classes like Basic Acting, Drama in the Classroom, and The Art of the Theatre. I continued this work as a teaching artist while assistant directing at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.
I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Beloit College (in Beloit, Wisconsin) for three years where I taught many classes like Fundamentals of Acting, Fundamentals of Directing I & II, Script Analysis, Arab Theatre & Culture, Devising New Work, and directed a play or musical each semester. I also mentored student capstones, honors theses, and additional creative projects.
At Stanford, I have been the mentor of the ITALIC program (2022-2024), where I work with undergraduate students who are teaching a 1-unit activity course in the ITALIC program. I workshop their syllabi with them, provide constructive feedback on their class, and serve as a support throughout the process. I taught a pedagogy class to the ITALIC students called Undergraduate Teaching Apprenticeship. I have also been a Chappell Lougee mentor and an Honors in the Arts mentor. As a teaching assistant I have helped lead: Culture, Conflict, and the Modern Middle East, Performance and Historiography, and Jordanian Futurities between Ancient Antiquities and Performances of Urban Life (a short-term study abroad program in Jordan). In a surprising turn of events, I was also the graduate student mentor and instructor of record for the class The Last Great American Songwriter: Storytelling with Taylor Swift through the Eras, a student-initiated course at Stanford. (More information on that below.)
You can find more information about my teaching here on my CV.
