My personal interests lie along a fluid axis of theatrical expression, politics, and youth rights; my scholarship can be found at the points where the three intersect. I have worked for many years as a theatre artist, facilitator, and educator with a strong propensity for theatre for social justice. My research employs qualitative methods to critically analyze how youth manipulate the tools used to make drama and theatre to explore epistemologies, interrogate their personal and social circumstances, and perform agency. I am most intrigued by what occurs when a young person's visions are realized through theatrical experiences and representations.Though I am knowledgeable of traditional theatre histories and dramatic theories, my work also focuses on historiographical moments where plays and performances are found either challenging the status quo or reinscribing hegemonic ideologies which call for intensive critical analyses and problematizing. Some of my specializations include: Youth theatre; Child Drama; Documentary theatre; the Acting methods and theories of Grotowski, Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, and Meisner; Piscator’s and Brecht’s Living Newspaper and Epic theatre; US American theatre of the 1960s, such as avante garde theatre, feminist theatre, and the Black Arts Movement; and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.

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Please for                        for a copy of my dissertation But Now You Can See Me: Devising Theatre With Youth Artist

Researchers in Search of Revelations and Docutheatricality 

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Click below for a second writing sample that explores immigrant identity in two TYA plays: