Welcome to my online stage directing portfolio. I am the Artistic Director of Expanded Programs at Marin Theatre Company. MTC is my artistic home, but I will continue to seek freelance directing work in the Bay Area and beyond.
I'm directing a new adaptation of Aesop's Fables by Steve Yockey, commissioned by Marin Theatre Company for our School Tour program. I had a blast directing the School Tour shows last year, and I'm thrilled to get the chance to develop a new play with a fantastic playwright.At high schools throughout the county, teenage playwrights are gearing up for the competition, choosing their actors and rehearsing during lunch breaks, after school and on weekends.I'm directing a staged reading of the winning script on Thursday, Feb 11 at Marin Theatre Company, starring Avery Monsen and Blythe Foster, in conjunction with MTC's New Works series.
"The purpose of the festival is to encourage a focus on playwriting in the high schools," said Josh Costello, MTC's director of expanded programs. "American theater is depending on the next generation of playwrights coming up and writing spectacular plays for the theater."
Thirty students from eight high schools entered the inaugural festival. One of the teen finalists is Jasper Hirose, an 18-year-old Terra Linda High School senior. "It's been a fantastic experience," Hirose said. "To think that a play you wrote at such a young age is going to actually be performed is a real privilege and an honor. Competitions like this are important because they are a testament to the future. What teenagers do now is a promise that good things are on the horizon. You're looking at the playwrights and the actors of the future. I'm proud to be part of it."
My Children! My Africa! enjoyed an extended run at Marin Theatre Company in early 2009. 
"...in the hands of three exceptional actors and a skilled director, one dedicated teacher's tragedy is a fierce reminder of the complexity of trying to right social wrongs"