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"A nursing supervisor once said to me during a clinical assessment: "You can't train for that."  She had been observing how I worked with a non-verbal, terminally ill patient at bedside. When I asked what she meant, she explained that her comment was directed at how I held space with the patient, and how we moved together. I thought to myself: you certainly can train for that. But it would be a theater and performance studies course. 

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From my foundation in theater arts and performance studies, I research the history of the body, theories of embodiment, and their applications in medicine. I am also an artist-scholar, engaging in dance research, sensory study, and media making as intrinsic to knowledge production. 

Transdisciplinary study is the cornerstone of my practice.

Theatrical arts have a historical role in informing science, tech, and medicine, not simply as enrichment, but as invaluable frameworks and techniques. 

And of course, the inverse is true: science, technology, and medicine, are intrinsic to theater and performance.  No matter how 'post-modern' it becomes, theater and performance cannot reject empiricism -- observation and the senses are at the heart of what it means to perform.

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My teaching focuses on developing scholarly awarenesses, methods, and techniques that bring science, medicine, theater, and dance together. My work bridges both the classroom and the clinic as sites for meaningful intellectual exchange and knowledge production."

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