PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

OFF BROADWAY
We are Your Sisters  Blue Heron Theatre Co. NYC
Audelco Award, Outstanding Production

ARENA STAGE

Job Title: Directing Associate
The Mad Dancers (Director)
Candide (Choreographer) Directed by Doug Wager
Dance of Death (Choreographer) Directed by Joanne Akilaitis
PlayQuest New Works Festival (Associate Producer)
Y2K Young Playwright’s Festival (Director, Associate Producer)

RESIDENT THEATRE DIRECTOR
Spunk      African Continuum Theatre Co., Wash. DC
Kennedy Center AFI Theatre
2002 Helen Hayes Nomination for Best Director and Best Resident Musical

A View from the Bridge         Source Theatre Co. Wash., DC
                                             Latino Adaptation by Darryl V. Jones
1996 Washington Theatre Lobby Award for Best Director of a Drama

Dark River: The Fannie Lou Hamer Story  (opera)  Oakland Opera Theatre Company
Gem of the Ocean                Sacramento Theatre Company
Spunk                                   Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
The Mineola Twins                Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co., Wash. DC
Hubert and Charlie               African Continuum Theatre Co., Wash. DC
Kennedy Center AFI Theatre
The Amen Corner                 African Continuum Theatre Co., Wash. DC
Mud, River, Stone                 The Unicorn Theatre, Kansas City, MO
From the Mississippi Delta   The Rep Stage, Columbia, MD
Avenue X the a cappella musical   Performance Network, Ann Arbor, MI
Children of Eden                   Columbia Center for Theatre Arts, MD
USO 40^th Anniversary Tour   Germany, England, Scotland, Iceland
(Writer, Director, Performer)  Sylvan Theatre, Wash. DC with Bob Hope
Ain’t Misbehavin’                   Toby’s Dinner Theatre, Columbia, MD

BROADWAY ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Play On                           Sheldon Epps, Director

UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY SUMMER STOCK
Oliver
The Boys from Syracuse
The All Night Strut

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

• HELEN HAYES AWARDS
  Nomination for Best Director of a Resident Musical 2002 Spunk
       Nomination for Best Resident Musical Production 2002 Spunk

• Ann Arbor News Critic’s Choice Award 2001
  Best Director, Grapes of Wrath
  Best Dramatic Production, Grapes of Wrath

• AUDELCO AWARDS (Audience Development Committee Inc.)
  Outstanding Production Honoree 1996 We Are Your Sisters

• Washington Theatre Lobby, Mary Goldwater Award 1996
  Outstanding Direction, A View from the Bridge

• Source Theatre Company Annual Awards 1995
  Best Director, A View From the Bridge

• Arena Stage, Wash. DC
  Allen Lee Hughes Directing Fellowship 1994

• Old Globe, San Diego, CA
  Joseph P. Hardy Directing Fellowship 1993-1994

• Ann Arbor News Critic’s Choice Award 1999
  Best Director, Balm in Gilead             

 PLAYS AND MUSICALS DIRECTED, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

• Ladyhouse Blues
• Our Country’s Good
• Colored People’s Time
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  Awarded Best Director and Best Dramatic Production, Ann Arbor News
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• A View From the Bridge
• You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
• Balm in Gilead
  Awarded Best Dramatic Production, A.A.N

PLAYS AND MUSICALS DIRECTED, BOSTON UNIVERSITY

• Six Degrees of Separation
• The Miser
• Marvin’s Room
• Sweet Charity
• A Shayna Maidel
• The Colored Museum
• Come Back Little Sheba
• Balm in Gilead

PLAYS AND MUSICALS DIRECTED AT CAL STATE EAST BAY

• Xtigone by Nambi Kelley(World Premiere)
  KCACTF Regional Nominee
• Halie (World Premiere)
• BEEHIVE The Sixties Musical
• Once Upon a Mattress
• The Wiz
• Cloud Nine
• Godspell
• Sophisticated Ladies
• Chicago