PhD by Publication in progress: Exeter University, England- via distance
MFA Playwriting, School of the Arts: Columbia University, New York City
BFA Theatre Performance/Playwriting: University of Florida-New World School of the Arts Conservatory, Miami, Florida. With honors
AA Film Directing: Miami Dade College, Miami Florida.
PLAYWRITING – Columbia University
Playwriting through aesthetics/ Playwriting Projects: Charles Mee
Play structure and analysis/Playwriting Projects: Kelly Stuart
Thesis and Professional Development: David Henry Hwang and Chay Yew
American Spectacle: Lynn Nottage
Political Theatre/Dramaturgy: Morgan Jenness
Collaboration Class: Mentored by Ken Rus Schmoll
Adaptation: Process of adapting Henrik Iben’s A Doll’s House
New World SAC Master Classes
Excerpt readings and feedback on Blood Bits and Junkyard Food plays: Edward Albee
Writing as a career- longevity for the playwright: Horton Foote
Structure development and performance of solo shows: Julie Harris
Henrik Ibsen’s contribution to the modern drama: Brian Johnston
Playwriting Levels 1-4 (4 consecutive years)
SCREENPLAY– Miami Dade
Level 1: Gary Davis
Level 2: Holly Anderson
New York City Master class on structures within genre: Robert McKee
TELEVISON WRITING– Columbia University
Spec Script: Jermone Hairston
Original Pilots: Zakiyyah Alexander
ACTING– New World SAC
Workshops: David Mamet, Lee Michael Cohen, Susan Grace Cohen and Julie Harris
Method: William Horn
Uda Hagan/Scene Study: Patrice Bailey
Improvisation/Scene Study: David Kwait
Classical texts and Chekov: Jorge Guerra
Acting-Classical texts: Heath Kelts
Shakespeare and Clowning: Andrew Noble
SHAKESPEARE– additional training
Adrian Noble of the Royal Shakespeare Company Columbia University
Peter Craze New World and London East 5 School
Ian Hersey of The Public Theatre Lab New York City Master class
Andrew Goldberg’s Shakespeare Gym, three consecutive years, New York City
(King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, and numerous scenes/monologues)
TV/FILM ACTING: One on One Studios, Actors Alliance, The Network- New York City
Courses with over sixty NYC Casting Directors television/film sides and commercial copy.
LABYRINTH THEATRE INTENSIVE- Stephen Adly Guirgis– writing new work, Philip Seymour
Hoffman dramaturgy and performance in Our Town, Maggie Flannigan -scene study
MOVEMENT – New World SAC
Laban, Grotowski, Puppetry, Mask: Jorge Guerra
Biomechanics: Matthais Scherwenikas
Butoh Dance:- Helena Thevenot
Alexander Technique: James Franz
Suzuki Technique: Heath Kelts and Siti Company Master class
Experimental Theatre/Movement –Octavio Campos of Pina Bausch Company
INDEPENDENT TRAINING
Suzuki Technique: Kameron Steele of Suzuki Company of Toga New York City
Butoh Dance/Ritual Theatre: Vangeline Theatre, Katsura Kan, Minako Seki, Leigh Evans, Helena Thevenot, Tetsuro Fakuhara, Hiroko and Koichi Tamano, Kudo Taketuru, Kota Yamazaki, Daiichiro Yuyama, Mari Osnani, Atshushi Takenouchi, Dai Matsuoka and Yumiko Yoshioka and Tadashi Endo.
Nouveau Clown Movement Master class: Jango Edwards Brick Theatre New York City
Clown Lab NYC: Jef Johnson
VOICE– New World SAC
Voice/Diction- several courses: James Randolph
Dialects-Cicely Berry technique:(British, Southern, Irish, etc: Cynthia Caquelin-Capewell
Voice/Diction: Patrice Bailey
Singing: Jane Seaman Kate Chadwick NYC Coaching
Voice after Artaud and Grotowski: Jean-Rene Toussaint
DIRECTING– Columbia University
Visiting Directors: Anne Bogart
Approaches on Directing: Gregory Mosher
Master class: Julie Taymor
New World School: Directing Stylistically: Jorge Guerra
FILM DIRECTING– Miami Dade College
Film Directing/Film Theory: Ece Karayalcin
Film Production- Camera-Lighting-Editing: Holly Anderson
Film History: Gary Davis
HISTORY/THEATRE THEORY– New World SAC
Theatre Theory: Jorge Guerra
Political/Social Movements in Theatre: Roberto Prestigiacomo
Theatre History: Heath Kelts
Columbia: History and Theory of Theatre: Piia J. Mustamaki
TECHNICAL– New World SAC
Stage Managing (Provoked Wife), Scenic Artist (Cherry Orchard) mentored by
Alexander Okun, Lighting Design- (Wild Duck)
Lighting Design: Jeff Quinn
Stage Craft: Paul Lancraft