Recent Projects

Summer 2008: Artistic Director of Tidewater Regional Repertory Theatre (New SPT Theatre in Virginia). Mission: Founded in 2007 and operating in partnership with Christopher Newport University and the Ferguson Center for the Arts, Tidewater Regional Repertory Theatre (TRR) is dedicated to producing plays and musicals that illuminate all that is passionate, profound, diverse and daring in the great American spirit. Our focus is on theatre inspired by and created from America’s complex cultural landscape. Tidewater Rep is a place to celebrate all that constitutes the unique American consciousness. It is a place for audiences to experience, discuss and deliberate through theatrical imagination—to be entertained, challenged and inspired by America’s greatest playwrights. At the center of TRR is artistic expression; all other programs are born, grow and thrive in support of the art of theatre.

Summer 2007: Directed Romeo & Juliet at Virginia Shakespeare Festival (Williamsburg)

Fall 2007: Tempest/Deconstructed at CNU/Ferguson Center. Adapted Shakespeare's Tempest for Jamestown 2007 Celebration.

Spring 2007: Directed Actus Fideí, Ferguson Center (TheaterCNU) for Jamestown 2007

Fall 2005: Directed Proof at Ferguson Center for the Arts (Studio Theater / TheaterCNU)
Fall 2004: Directed Romeo and Juliet as premiere production in Ferguson Center for the Arts
Fall 2003: Directed Our Country's Good (Wertenbaker)
Fall 2002: Directed the premiere of The Trial of Hamlet (Steven Breese) [click here for review]

Fall 2000 I accepted a full time teaching position at Christopher Newport University. Spring 2001, I was promoted to Director of Theater / Chair of Department of Theater & Dance. TheaterCNU currently boasts aSbout 150 majors and offers a B.A. in Theater with an emphasis in five (5) areas: Acting, Musical Theater/Dance, Directing/Dramatic Literature, Design/Tech and Arts Administration.

Recent Plays (Playwright): Actus Fidei The Trial of Hamlet, Painted Cages, Brotherly Love, Character Assassinations, Doubletake.

Directing assignments at CNU include: Actus Fideí, Proof, Romeo and Juliet, Our Country's Good, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Hello out There, The Bald Soprano, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet , A Midsummer Night's Dream - (click for review) and Communicating Doors.

Recent Acting Work (AEA):
Summer 2006: Performed Macduff in Macbeth and Orsino in Illyria (Musical of Twelfth Night) under a guest
artist contract (AEA), for The Virginia Shakespeare Festival.
Summer 2005: Performed Antonio in The Tempest and Daniel in Compleat Wrks of William Shakepear, Abri'gd under a guest artist contract (AEA), for The Virginia Shakespeare Festival.
Fall 2005: Performed David Mamet's Oleanna at Ferguson Center under a special agreement with AEA
.

Spring 2000: Performed in Guys and Dolls at Dallas Theatre Center and 42nd Street at Casa Manana.

Fall 2001: Played Harry Truman in a staged reading of a new play about the life and times of Gen. Douglas MacArthur: Climbing Tiger Mountain at Virginia Stage Company.

Fall 1999: Returned from teaching in the internationally recognized Semester at Sea Program. For more about Semester At Sea's programs and opportunities visit the SAS Home Page.

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