“You need to walk it. You need to engage their eyes as you move across the stage and therefore engage them in the whole production..."  

---Sonja Sanchez

DIRECTING PORTFOLIO

Theater practitioner with knowledge of playwriting and directing immersive theater installations, professional stage directing for youth, college, and professional theater, and producer of artistic experiences. Focused in developing and directing new works, immersive/site-specific theatre, theatre for young audiences, and musicals. Honoring the stories of people of the Global Majority, cultural consciousness, sensitivity, mindfulness, and racial and/or communal healing are at the center of my work. 

Sputnik  by Everett Robert  | Barn Players (2025) 

Getting with the Program by Marj O'Neill-Butler | Soul Rep Theatre (Ted Shine Festival) (2023) 

Cat, Woman by David Lewison | Soul Rep Theatre (Ted Shine Festival) (2023) 

Joie de Vivre. by Joe Godfrey | Bath House Cultural Center (2023)

Peter and the Starcatcher | University of North Texas (2023) 

Ursa Major by Zoe Kerr | Bishop Arts Theatre Center (2022) 

How to be festival: Ten Plays for Racial Justice |  Bishop Arts Theatre Center (2022) 

• Hey Asshat: A Recently Discovered Play by August Wilson by Jonathan Norton

• Gray by Erin Malone Turner

• Self-Education by Bwalya Chisanga

• Water Fountain, 1967, by Oba William King 

• Government Cheese by Eugene Lee

• Classes by Paula Sanders

• Ghost of History by Michael Harrison

• A Good Neighborhood by Alle Mims

• What would have been by Kristen Adele Calhoun

• Elephant in the Room by Zetra Goodlow 

Amazing Grace by Shay Youngblood  | University of North Texas (2021)

Family Dollar by Ilknur Ozgur and Morgana Wilborn | Artstillery (co-direction with Ilknur Ozgur) (2021) (site)

Close Knit Family by Dr. Ofem Ajah | Theatre Makers Studio

Dream Hou$e by Eliana Pipes | Kitchen Dog Theatre (New Works Festival) (2020)

Loving and Loving by Beto O'Byrne and Meropi Peponides | Bishop Arts Theatre (2020)

Assistant and Associate Directing

The Color Purple Book by Marsha Norman, Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray  | Directed by Daniel J. Bryant | Kansas City Repertory Theatre | (2025)

black. album. mixtape by Regina Taylor | Directed by Regina Taylor | SMU Meadows School for the Arts (2021)

Educational Theatre/ Theatre for Young Audiences 

From 2008 to 2015, I directed theater for young audiences in Dallas ISD, including adapting and directing shows like Miss Nelson is Missing, Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto, and directing Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters. As well as directing musicals such as Alice in Wonderland Jr. and one-act plays like The Hobbit by Edward Mast, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet.