Community Work
Hillbrook Juvenile
Detention Center
Designed and implemented a forum theater - based curriculum founded on the book I Apologize by Syracuse native, Rashawn Sullivan. Bi-weekly workshops that combine lectures, games, and theater to guide incarcerated youth through self-reflection and behavior analysis.
Onondaga County
Justice Center
Weekly group-based game sessions, theatrical and traditional, with incarcerated juvenile males.
Upstate Medical
Hospital
Since 2012, ongoing bi-monthly workshops integrated into Upstate’s Resident Training Program. Through theater strategies, participants build confidence in empathetic talking and listening skills. In 2016 this program expanded to address the particular needs of veteran’s health care at the Syracuse Veteran’s Affairs Hospital.
2013 Imagining America Conference, Syracuse
Designed and performed a clown piece called Scholars with Borders that argued in favor of increased Syracuse University Partnerships with the overall Syracuse Community.
La Casita
Cultural Center
Facilitated several weekend workshops in popular theater techniques that transferred foundational philosophies and practices of the work of theater in community development. Participants were made up of members of the La Casita Latin community, public school teachers, and adult educators.
Syracuse City School District
Visited Nottingham and Fowler High schools as guest lecturer for the Partnership for Better Education Program.
CUSE Center-Recovery Community
Weekly improvisational theater workshop. Participants are those exploring recovery through a peer led drop in center.
Hopeprint
Since 2014, ongoing workshops with neighborhood and refugee children, youth, and adults in Northside, Syracuse using theater as a means to develop team working skills, interpersonal skills, critical thinking, confidence and self-expression.
Hutchings Psychiatric Center
Presented several improvisational shows and workshops for residents and staff of the Hutchings Inpatients Program.
Fabius-Pompey
School District
Two, full year game theater residencies designed to augment and support classroom curriculum. Weekly sessions with selected classes through a variety of subjects combined with weekly evaluation and planning sessions with classroom teachers.
Nottingham High School Jewish Youth Association
Workshop and improvisational performance for Jewish Youth.
Worker's Center of CNY
Ongoing since 2012. Partner with members of the Syracuse Latinx community on the creation and presentation of a series of original, educational plays based on the rights of farm workers.