2022: moved back to the Triangle, specifically to Wake Forest. started working for the North Carolina Literary Review.
2021/22: moved the blog into print with TWO issues of Color of Fayetteville
2020: my second daughter came into our world.
2019: moved to Fayetteville. worked as interim Development Director at Cape Fear Regional Theater. produced 3 of 4 planned staged readings of avant garde contemporary theater scripts under the shingle “Independence Theater Reading Series”
2018: first paid staff as Manager at Carteret Community Theater. left when Hurricane Florence blew the roof off the building.
2016-2018: worked with EbzB Productions, as Marketing Manager for the show “Native”, based on the true life collaboration between novelist Richard Wright and NC playwright Paul Green. Also worked for the now defunct Clyde Fitch Report blog as the editor of the Marbury Project column, interviewing and writing about women in the arts.
2015: moved to Morehead City, NC.
2013-2015: Executive Director of Common Ground Theater in Durham, NC. Worked with dozens of theater producers and improvisors.
2014: Graduated from Goucher College with my Masters in Arts Administration. For my thesis, I wrote “Courting the Community: The Impact of Large Scale Performing Arts Centers on Nonprofit Arts Organizations in Small and Medium-sized Cities”. For my required internship, I worked with the highly lauded dancer/choreographer Liz Lerman on the at-the-time new realm of integrating dance and other somatic practices into the K-12 classroom to support differential learning.
2007-2013: was the Theater Manager at Deep Dish Theater Company in Chapel Hill, NC. From 2000-2007 I also served as Propmaster for almost all shows. In all, I worked on over 50 shows in one capacity or another.
2007: my first daughter came into our world.
2005-2007: Associate Manager at A.C. Moore. I love craft hobbies. Teaching and training folks who are genuinely eager to learn is also high on my favorite work types.
2002-2005: full-time staff at Cameron’s. Kworks and Cameron’s and Deep Dish were all at Chapel Hill’s University Mall, and have all sadly been closed for many years now. They were all fantastic locally owned and supported places. My love of all things local extends out from the arts and into food and retail, too.
2000-2002: full-time staff at Kitchenworks.
2000: Graduated from Guilford College with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Publishing.
1999: married my husband