Teaching Resume
Colleges and Universities:
American Academy of Dramatic Arts – Los Angeles, CA – Core Faculty / Head of Movement Department / 2nd Year coordinator (3 years) / Accreditation Liaison (2 Years) – On Faculty for a total of 30 years:
Movement for the Actor I & II, Dance for the Actor, Period Dance, Musical Theater, & Tap
Physical Acting for Summer Encore Program, Drama Educators Workshops
Director / Choreographer – Several productions
Occidental College – Los Angeles, CA – Adjunct Professor – 8 years:
Beg. & Int. Jazz and Tap – Spring semester 2004–2012
Movement for the Actor: Social Dances – Fall semester 2007–2009
Guest Choreographer – The Hostage, Mid–Summer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, The Mikado, Hair,
You Never Can Tell
U.C. Irvine: School of Fine Arts – Irvine, CA – Adjunct Professor – 6 years:
Graduate Movement A & B – Spring quarter 2008
Undergraduate Musical Theatre Dance – Winter quarter 2003 & 2004
Guest Teacher – Intro to Musical Theatre Dance for the Graduate Actor – 2003
Musical Theatre Dance – Spring 2002
Guest Choreographer – Chicago, Hot Tkts., The Theater Songs of Maltby and Shire, The Music of Rogers and Hart
U.C.L.A. – Los Angeles, CA – Guest Lecturer – 3 years:
“Choreography at Different Educational Levels”
Guest Choreographer in association with Robert Reed: “Elizabethan Dances”
Glendale Community College – Glendale, CA – Guest Artist – 5 years:
Musical Theatre Dance – 1999, 2001, 2002, & 2003
California Institute of Technology – Pasadena, CA – Guest Choreographer – 3 years:
Cabaret 2000, Cabaret 2001, & Cabaret 2002
Pasadena City College – Pasadena, CA – Guest Choreographer – 4 years:
Guys and Dolls, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Sound of Music, Gypsy
Professional Studios:
Vonder Haar Performing Arts Center/ Ballet Petit – La Cañada, CA Faculty – 11 years:
Tap (all levels), Musical Theatre Dance, Pilates, & Yoga
Le Studio – Pasadena, CA – Weekly Instructor – 3 years:
Musical Theatre Dance & Substitute Instructor for Tap
Debbie Reynolds Studios – North Hollywood, CA – Substitute Instructor – 3 years:
Tap (all levels)
Monrovia Dance Center – Monrovia, CA – Weekly Instructor – 1 + years:
Tap (all levels)
Tremaine Dance Center – North Hollywood, CA – Faculty – 1+ years:
Tap (all levels)
Moro-Landis Studios – Studio City, CA – Weekly Instructor – 2+ years:
Tap (all levels)
Pasadena Civic Ballet Center – Pasadena, CA – Faculty – 1+ years:
Tap & Master Classes in Jazz
3rd Street Dance Academy – Los Angeles, CA – Faculty – 1 year:
Tap (all levels)
Professional School for the Arts – Torrance, CA
Frequent Guest Instructor: Theater Dance & Tap
Looking Glass Studio of Performing Arts (Tap Camp 2000 & 2001) – San Bernadino, CA
Master Instructor: Tap (all levels)
Screenland Studios – Burbank, CA
Master Instructor: “Audition Techniques for the Professional”
Dance Theatre Workshop – Chattanooga, TN
Master Instructor: Jazz, Tap, Dances through the Decades, Choreography & Audition Techniques
The Performing Arts Center – Van Nuys, CA
Master Instructor (Dance Day 1993 & 1994): Tap
High Schools:
La Salle High School – Pasadena, CA – Faculty (Co-founder of Dance Department) – 18 years
Numerous Dance Styles & Dance History
*Recipient of 2012-2013 Signum Fidei Award for Outstanding Service
Arcadia High School – Arcadia, CA –Staff Choreographer – 2 years
Chanteurs & New Spirit (Competition Show Choirs)
Tri-School Conservatory – Anaheim, CA – Staff Instructor – 2 years
Jazz & Movement for Actors
Choreographer – Yearbook *1st Place, International Theatre Festival
High School for the Performing Arts – Chattanooga, TN – Master Instructor
Audition Techniques for Musical Theater
Girls Preparatory School – Chattanooga, TN – Lecture / Demonstration
“Aspects of Choreography”
Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA; Marymount High School, Los Angeles, CA: Loyola High School, Los Angeles, CA:, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, La Cañada / Flintridge, CA
Guest Choreographer – assorted productions
Adjudicating:
CA Alliance for Arts Education – Emerging Young Artists Awards
Adjudicator 2003 - 2006 – All styles of Dance
Encore 2006 – California Show Choir Competition
Showmanship Adjudicator
Czar Productions Dance Competitions
Frequent Adjudicator 2004 - 2006 – All styles of Dance (all levels and ages)
Showstopper National Dance Championships
Frequent Adjudicator 2000-2004 – All styles of Dance (all levels and ages)
State Dance Championships
Frequent Adjudicator 2001- 2003 – All styles of Dance (all levels and ages)
Fosse Awards 1997
Adjudicating panel – Film and Television choreography
Surrey Dance Festival 1997 – Surrey, B.C.
Adjudicator – Tap, Stage, Song and Dance (all levels & ages)
British Columbia Annual Dance Competition 1995 – Prince Rupert, B.C.
Adjudicator – Tap, Jazz, Stage, Song and Dance (all levels & ages)
Southern California Theatre Festival – Fullerton, CA
Adjudicator – Dramatic Monologues, Musical Theatre Scenes
Additional Experience:
Pasadena Dance Festival – 2008 - 2012
Broadway Tap Master Classes
Campbell Hall (Building Human Community Days) – Studio City CA
Lecture/Demonstrations: “The Charleston” – Spring 2011
“The History of Tap Dancing” – Spring 2007, Fall 2007 & 2009
California Dance Educators’ Association Conference 2003 – Long Beach, CA
Master Instructor – Musical Theatre
Newport Harbor Academy of Dentistry (Cultural Enrichment Series) – Newport Beach, CALecture / Demonstration – “The History and Art of Tap Dancing”
U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific (Elmendorf Air Force Base) - Anchorage, AK
Master Instructor – Jazz
Long Beach Civic Light Opera Youth Conservatory – Long Beach, CA
Faculty (6 years) – Acting Improvisation, Jazz & Tap
Choreographer – Several Productions
Gooden School: Theatre Arts Enrichment Program – Sierra Madre, CA
Week-long Workshop – Improvisation/Theatre Games for K - 8th grades
SPAN Workshop for Teachers – Chattanooga, TN
Lecture / Demonstration – “Education and Movement”
Atlanta Workshop Players (Annual Theater / Dance Camp) - Atlanta, GA
Faculty (1 year) –Tap, Jazz, Movement for Actors, & Theater Games
Oasis: Arts for the Elderly – Long Beach, CA (1991-1992)
Faculty & Show Director for 2 years – Movement
Tennessee All State – Chattanooga, TN
Guest Lecturer – “Teaching Students How to Audition”
“Choreography for High School Level”
AUDTON WORKSHOP taught with Teri Ralston – Los Angeles, CA (1989)
Nusical Theatre performances , General Interviews, and Cold Readings