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Currently, I am a student in the MFA program at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in Blue Lake, California. My studies at Dell’arte have focused on the styles of Commedia, Clown, Melodrama and Bouffon. I studied for two years in the BFA acting program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts before transferring to the University of Colorado, where I received a BA in Geography.
My recent theatre work has mostly been with the theatre/music group Bonejesters, which I co-founded with David Leicht. We performed the original show Bonejesters in 2000 at LaMama ETC in New York, and later that year in Gogol’s The Nose with Lake Simons and Harold Lehmann. Since then we have performed their repertory pieces Round and Obscurity Knocks in various venues around New York. Both of these pieces feature large, abstract masks and puppetry.
As a member of the Brazilian percussion ensemble Maracatu New York, I have performed in major clubs around New York with Cyro Baptista’s Beat The Donkey and performed and recorded with Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars. Maracatu New York also traveled to Recife, Brazil in 2005 and 2008 for Carnaval performances with Corpos Percussivos, led by Jorge Martins da Silva of the popular Brazilian group Cascabulho.
As a guitarist, I have performed as a solo singer/songwriter and as an accompanist for National Champion mandolinist Charlie Provenza. In 1999 I moved to New York City and performed as a founding member of the theatre/music group Bonejesters and with the Celtic trio The Crooked Road.
As a composer, I composed and performed original music for: the No Name Dance Company’s The Sins of Virtue, an adapatation of the Ramayana (Boulder,1996); The Nose and 2+2 by Harold Lehmann and Lake Simons (HERE Arts Center, NYC, 2000); Brooklyn Part I with Bonejesters, (NYC, 2001); and for the student production of A Mind that Doesn’t Change, an adaptation of Isabel Allende’s Simple Maria, at the Dell’Arte School. In 2007 I assisted Jackie Dandeneau opn vocal and percussion compositions for Elemental in Blue Lake and the Lantern Festival on Pender Island, British Columbia.
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