Expertise:  I have loved Shakespeare all my life, and as a Stage Director and Actor for over twenty-five years I have had the opportunity to study his work in intimate detail. I would be happy to share my knowledge of his plays. I can also help with acting Shakespeare, working with blank verse, character development, script analysis and interpretation. I don`t have as much knowledge in the area of his sonnets, but I can help to understand their meaning and language. I also have some knowledge of his life and of the Globe theatre where he performed his plays, as well as the Royal Shakespeare Company and his birthplace of Stratford-upon-Avon, and can point you in the direction of some wonderful websites on the subjects as well.

Experience in Theatre
I have been a Stage Director, Dramaturg, Actor and Acting Coach for over twenty-five years and a lifelong devotee of Shakespeare. I am currently studying for an MA in "Shakespeare and Theatre" at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, Uk. Most recently, this summer (2008)I directed my own interpretation of "Hamlet" for the Woodward Shakespeare Festival in Fresno, CA which is based on and will be the basis for my MA dissertation. I will be directing a second production of "Hamlet" next summer in Boston, MA, and will be returning to WSF the following summer to direct either "The Merchant of Venice" or "Antony and Cleopatra". I have been assistant director/production stage manager for "The Tempest", and have studied most of the plays, their textual basis, the acting of blank verse and Shakespeare's characters, in detail.

Organizations
SSDC - associate member
The Shakespeare Institute (MA Candidate - "Shakespeare & Theatre)
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
The Shakespeare Association of America