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2020-21 Stage Directors & Choreographers Society Foundation Observership Class

2019-20 Stage Directors & Choreographers Society Foundation Observership Class

2019 Directors Lab Lincoln Center Member, NYC

2019 Directors Lab North Member, Toronto

2019 & 2012 Coach of  English-Speaking Union Cleveland Shakespeare Competition “Honorable Mention” 

2018 Directors Gym Member, Cleveland Play House, Cleveland, OH

2018 Directors Lab West Member, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Coach of  English-Speaking Union Cleveland Shakespeare Competition 3rd place winner

2017 Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Superior Achievement-A DOLL’S HOUSE

2017 Cleveland Critics Circle Award - Special Mention for Mamaí Theatre Company’s five-year run dedicated to producing women’s plays from a classical canon.

2017 Cleveland Plain Dealer Year in Review: A DOLL'S HOUSE is a Standout

2017 Cleveland Scene's The Best of Cleveland Theater: A DOLL'S HOUSE

2017 Cleveland Jewish News - A DOLL’S HOUSE - #1 of Top 10 Theatre Moments

2017, 2016, 2011 Coach of English-Speaking Union Cleveland Shakespeare Competition “Tom Joynes” awardees.

2016 Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance Member at the Globe Theatre in London, UK

2016 English-Speaking Union Fellowship to study Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance at the Globe Theatre in London, UK

2015 Presidential Scholars Program’s Distinguished Teacher; Lauryn Hobbs, student.

2012 The Juilliard School Directing for High School Member

2012 PTO Grant to participate in “Directing Shakespeare for Theatre Educators” at Juilliard

2012 Teacher of 6 of the winning playwrights in The Marilyn Bianchi Kids Playwriting Festival/Young Playwrights at Dobama Theatre; one or more student winners annually since 2003.

2009 & 2010 Coach of two English-Speaking Union Cleveland Shakespeare Competition regional winners who competed at Lincoln Center. 

2006 2006 National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare Member

2006 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to study with Shakespeare & Company at the National Institute on Teaching Shakespeare

2006 Recipient of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers Award

G. Harry Wright Scholarship in Theatre, Kent State University

Graduate Assistantship, Kent State University.