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Summary of Experience

This page is a brief summary of a variety of my work experience, major projects, and leadership positions. I have categorized these experiences based on the type of work carried out.

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Education

November 2024

Master of Fine Arts || Creative Practice: Transdisciplinary with Merit

Trinity Laban in London, United Kingdom

May 2022

Bachelor of Arts || Theatre with Honors Distinction

Minors in Dance and Performing Arts Administration

South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota, United States

Administrative Experience

Library Student Assistant

Laban Library

2023-2024

London, United Kingdom

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  • Accurately shelf returned items and regularly tidy shelves

  • Assist library users with basic operational enquiries

  • Assist with the sorting and maintenance of various archival materials

Publicity Head

Prairie Repertory Theatre

2021, 2022

Brookings, SD

State University Theatre and Dance

2020-2022

Brookings, SD

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  • Formulate marketing and publicity strategies to achieve ticket sales and online growth goals and implement them within a schedule

  • Assist team in working with production teams to extend director’s vision to digital media whilst maintaining organisation’s branding

  • Foster an environment which encourages collaboration and creativity

​Box Office Manager

Prairie Repertory Theatre

2021, 2022

Brookings, SD

State University Theatre and Dance

2019-2022

Brookings, SD

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  • Oversee daily box office transactions, records, and operations, including the creation of box office schedule

  • Ensure deposits are signed by appropriate leadership and delivered to SDSU Cashier’s Office securely

  • Lead training of box office and front of house staff on ticketing and customer service procedures

Social Media Coordinator

State University Theatre and Dance

2019-2020

Brookings, SD

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  • Maintain the organisation’s presence online through consistent posting and responding to comments and messages

  • Create and schedule digital media for social media posting

  • Take and edit photos for use on organisation’s and cast and crew’s personal social media accounts

​Assistant Publicity Head

Prairie Repertory Theatre

2019

Brookings, SD

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  • Assist in managing team’s production and distribution of print, radio, TV, and social media publicity and marketing media

  • Organise and lead experimental strategies to expand publicity facilities

  • Maintain the organisation’s presence online through consistent posting and responding to comments and messages

Box Office Assistant Manager

Prairie Repertory Theatre

2019

Brookings, SD

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  • Supervise daily box office activities

  • Assist in appropriate completion and delivery of deposits

  • Mail tickets as requested daily

Facilitation and Teaching Experience

Dance Teacher

Expanding Harmony Dance Studio

2022, 2018-2020

Brookings, SD

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  • Prepare and execute weekly lesson plans, using National Dance Education Organization's syllabi to guide annual learning goals and benchmarks

  • Present material to young learners using different techniques and activities to ensure retention of material

  • Measure and reinforce learning through independent and group application of lesson material

Student Choreographer

State University Theatre and Dance

2020-2022

Brookings, SD

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  • Create choreography adhering to concert’s theme with a collaborator, when applicable

  • Facilitate rehearsals to teach performers choreography

  • Collaborate with performers to modify choreography during rehearsals as necessary

Assistant Director

State University Theatre and Dance

2021

Brookings, SD

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  • Collaborate with director in uniting designers’ and performers’ creative contributions to the production of The Thanksgiving Play

  • Feedback observations of performers’ work and offer suggestions to enrich production’s potential

  • Plan and lead performer warm-ups which engage director’s feedback outside the context of the script

Social Media Coordinator

State University Theatre and Dance

2019-2020

Brookings, SD

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  • Maintain the organisation’s presence online through consistent posting and responding to comments and messages

  • Create and schedule digital media for social media posting

  • Take and edit photos for use on organisation’s and cast and crew’s personal social media accounts

Choreographer

Brookings Community Theatre

2018, 2017

Brookings, SD

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  • Choreograph dance and movement to support director’s vision

  • Evaluate as teaching if there is impromptu need to modify planned choreography

  • Employ engaging teaching methods to make learning accessible for varied skill levels and ages

Research Experience

Trinity Laban

Processing: Development and Performance of Learning and Creating within a Transdisciplinary Creative Practice

2023-2024

Supervised by Zoi Dimitriou and Lizzi Kew-Ross

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  • Analyse structures and functions of learning and creating processes using improvisation and concepts from systems and affect theory

  • Design a methodology for transdisciplinary creative practice centred around experiential learning functions

  • Develop and perform an improvisational score using transdisciplinary creative practice

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Navigating Intimacy: A Collection of Connections and Moments Brought Together Through My Lived Experience

2023

Supervised by Heni Hale and Gabi Agis

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  • Define intimacy as it relates to systems and affect theory

  • Facilitate the Intimacy Directors and Coordinators Five C’s methodology as a solo practice

  • Apply intimacy research and methodologies to classes in experiential anatomy, body-weathering, Feldenkrais, and Skinner releasing

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Situating Emotion in Creative Practice

2022

Supervised by Alison Curtis-Jones and Guy Harries

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  • Explore interrelation of text, language, movement, presence, and emotion

  • Analyse significance of relationships through Laban’s movement theory and viewpoints perspective

  • Demonstrate methods using text, language, and movement as points of departure

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Impulse Control: Contextualizing underneath purple skin

2022

Supervised by Zoi Dimitriou

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  • Explore possibility of sub- and unconscious movement through altered consciousness and presence

  • Examine memory formation, memory recall, and mind and body relationship from neurological, psychological, anthropological, and dance perspectives

  • Demonstrate embodied knowledge in performance of original work, underneath purple skin

South Dakota State University

Debunking the Myth: Exploring Creativity, Community, and Collaboration through Creative Process

2019-2020

Supervised by Dr. Melissa Hauschild-Mork

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  • Examine phenomenon of community cultivation in collaborative creative process

  • Develop choreography and music in collaborative process using improvisation and Laban’s movement theory

  • Analyse the execution of research concepts in creative process without sharing of creative product

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