Performance Resume

Over 100 productions, appearances, and projects domestically and internationally.

1988

1996

2006

2014

2015

PRODUCTION - DIRECTION PROJECTS

• Volunteer Positive's Celebration Event 
• Producer, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2012
• Internationally recognized event celebrating people living with or affected by HIV. This event for over 200 people was produced, funded, and conceived by me, and by supporters and partners. Its purpose was to utilize performance theory as a tool for community anti-stigma work.

• Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
• Director, Producer, Choreographer
• Reed College Theater, Portland, OR - 1989

• The Happy Journey
• Director and Designer
• Reed College Theater, Portland, OR - 1988

• Midnight Theater
•  Founder, Producer, Director
•  Reed College, Portland, OR - 1987 - 1990

• Limelight 
• Co-Writer, Co-Director, Finance Manager, and Producer - 1984

• Founding Board Member 
• Young Players, a youth theater group. - 1984

TV - FILM PROJECTS - VOICE-OVERS

• Voice Talent
• Fullman Plumbing Jingle, Portland, OR - 2013

• Production Director for Voice Talent and Advertising Production 
• In 4 languages for private company while living and working in Kuala, Lumpur, Malaysia - 2012

• Featured Actor 
• Various films, private and industrial Bard College Film Department 
• Starlight Pictures, Oregon and New York, 1986 - 1989.

• Office Manager/Fund Raiser/Project Development 
• Lemle Pictures, Inc 
• International documentary film company in New York, New York.
• Graduate research on film, social change and selective philanthropy
• Managed in-home distribution of films, researched grants, regulated PR media mailings and aided with contracts and legal agreements for the following films:

• COMPASSION IN EXILE: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama
• THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON
• OUR PLANET EARTH
• Each national and international award winners

WRITING AND TEACHING

• Designer
• Workshops on ethics and values clarification, self-awareness, playwrights and found poetry, and cultural awareness through theater.

• Researcher
•  Original thesis on American cultural history and fine arts in 1968 NYC.

• American Musical Theater Historian and Lecturer
• Mount Hood Community College, Portland, OR, 1989.

• International Researcher 
• The role of performing arts and education in political systems.
• Performance Theory

• Designer
•  International arts exchange program for MA thesis.

• Designer 
• Creative participatory workshops:

• "Crime and Found Poetry"
• "Play writing and Giving Up Ownership"
• "Psychodrama and Development"
• "Myth and Personal Transformation"
• "Homophobia - its effect on all of us"
• ” Systems Theory and its relation to Acting Techniques”

• Private Acting and Vocal Coach - 1986 to 1997

FEATURED VOCALIST

• Tenor Soloist
• Lavender Light Gospel Choir
• First and only LGBTQ Black and people of all colors gospel choir in the world. NYC- 2006-07.

• Featured Performer 
• The Plush Room, San Francisco, 
• Special recognition by The Mabel Mercer Foundation
• With a national review in cabaret magazine as one of the city’s noted talents.

• Featured Vocalist
• Mayoral events under Willie Brown for City of San Francisco - 1998-2000

• Featured Vocalist
• The Bohemian Club
• San Francisco, Marin, Private Estates, Crow Industries, Snowbird Resort
• Italy, Dallas, Minneola, Salt Lake City, and The Bohemian Grove, St. Francis Yacht Club. 1997 - 2000

• Guest Vocalist 
• Cortona Opera House, Italy 
• With renowned soprano, Carol Neblett, 1997.

• SOLOIST 
• San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus
• Grammy nominated contemporary albums -1996, 97
• Naked man, by Robert Seeley
• Pushed Down The Stairs - Tenor Solo
• Extr-ABBA-ganza!, by Stan Hill
• Destiny Suite Solo
• Solo artist for domestic tours, international festivals, and recording contracts. 30 performances a year. 
• Received 1995 Gary Fallardo Award for most professional and prepared talent.
• Guest Vocalist
• Martuni’s, The Galleon, and The Swallow, SF, CA -1996 - 99

• Voice Over Talent 
• Plumbing Jingle - Portland, OR - 2013

• Recognized by 
• Mabel Mercer Foundation in national talent competition
• Cabaret Magazine featured talent in Fan Francisco, 1997

• Guest Cabaret Vocalist 
• The Duplex, NYC 1992-1993

• Guest Cabaret Vocalist 
• Rose’s Turn, NYC 1992-1993

• Voice Over Artist/Talent
• Wilson Entertainment, OR. 1991

• Featured Vocalist  
• Portland Center for the Performing Arts, 1990

FEATURED PERFORMER

• Anything Goes
• Billy, Portland Civic Theater, Portland, OR, 1988.

• Fiddler on the Roof
• Motel, Portland Civic Theater, Portland, OR, 1989.

• Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd
• Cocky, The Hotchkiss School, Connecticut, 1984.

• The 1940's Radio Hour
• B.J. Gibson, Portland Civic Theater, Portland, OR, 1988.
• Great Barrington Theatre, MA, 1985

• The House of Blue Leaves
• Billy, Reed College Theater, Portland, OR, 1989.

• Our Town
• Various roles, 3 different productions, 1982 - 1987.

• Limelight
• Featured lead, Young Players, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1984.

• Am I Blue
• John, Bard College Theater, Annandale, NY, 1986.

• The Happy Journey, 
• Pa, C.E.R.T., Poughkeepsie, NY, 1983.
• Director - Reed College, OR, 1989

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Oberon, C.E.R.T., Poughkeepsie, NY, 1981.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

• 4 years dance training in ballet, modern, jazz and choreography
• 5 years of children's theater productions with regional company
• Playback Theater Technique