CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
| 2026 | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Ph.D. in Performing and Media Arts Special Committee: J. Ellen Gainor (chair), Sara Warner, Gerard Aching, Beth Milles. Dissertation: Backcountry Onstage: Rural Theatricality and the Performance of Nostalgia Graduate Minors: Acting & Directing Pedagogy; Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies |
| 2023 | Cornell University, Ithaca, NY M.A. in Performing and Media Arts |
| 2016 | Brown University, Providence, RI B.A. magna cum laude with honors in Comparative Literature and Theatre Arts |
| 2014 | École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, Paris, France Theatre Intensive Study Abroad with Sarah Lawrence College |
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
“The Road to Hell/Broadway: The Rural to Urban Development of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown.” MusicTheatreDance, Issue .5 (2025).
“Place on Parade: Consumerism and Disidentification in the Parade Genre.” Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, vol 11, no. 2 (June 2023).
Book Chapters
Forthcoming: “The Dramaturgy of Nostalgia: Rural Identity in the Old Home Movement” in Dramaturgies of the Real World, editors Karen Jean Martinson and Daniel Smith, Routledge (2026).
Book Reviews
“More-than-human & More than Tools: Review of Matt Smith’s Applied Puppetry: The Theory and Practice of Object Ecologies.” Dance Chronicle, vol 48, no. 3 (2025).
Translations
Savitzkaya, Eugène, In Life (En vie), translated by Andrew Colpitts, Quale Press, November 2018.
Desnos, Robert, “Spaces of Sleep,” translated by Andrew Colpitts, Aldus Journal of Translation, VII, (Winter 2015).
FUNDING & AWARDS
| 2026 | Founder’s Dissertation Fellowship Award ($17,800) |
| 2025 | Cornell Graduate School Conference Grant ($700) |
| 2024-25 | New England Regional Fellowship Consortium ($5,000) |
| 2024-25 | Sage Fellowship |
| 2023 | Cornell Council for the Arts Grant: Ithaca Department of Arts and Futures ($1,000) |
| 2023 | Rural Humanities Microgrant: Ithaca Department of Arts and Futures ($1,000) |
| 2023 | Marvin Carlson Award for Best Essay in Theatre, Honorable Mention |
| 2022 | Cornell Council for the Arts Grant: The Family Copōli ($1,000) |
| 2022 | Knight Institute Gertrude Spencer Portfolio Award, Honorable Mention |
| 2022 | Cornell Graduate School Conference Grant ($700) |
| 2021 | Cornell Rural Humanities Initiative Grant ($2,000) |
| 2020-21 | Sage Fellowship |
| 2018 | Wallonia Federation Translation Grant ($1,200) |
| 2016 | Rosalie Colie Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis in Comparative Literature |
| 2012-16 | Mara E Kern Scholar |
| 2012-16 | Davis United World College Scholar |
TEACHING
Cornell University
Instructor of Record
| FA21, SP22, SP23 | First Year Writing Seminar: Page to Stage to Kick-Ball-Change: Adapting Musical Theatre |
| FA23 | First Year Writing Seminar: Backcountry Onstage: Theatre in and of Rural America |
Teaching Assistantships & Pedagogical Training
| SP26 | Directing II with Dr. David Feldshuh |
| SP24, FA25 | The American Musical with Dr. J. Ellen Gainor |
| FA25 | Directing I with Dr. David Feldshuh |
| SP24 | Introduction to Acting with Theo Black |
| SU23 | Teaching Writing Graduate Seminar with Dr. Aoise Stratford |
| FA21 | American Drama and Theatre with Dr. J. Ellen Gainor |
| SP21 | Playwriting II with Dr. Aoise Stratford |
Guest Instruction
| SP25 | Invited Lecture for American Theatre on Stage and Screen |
| SP23 | Invited Workshop on Lecoq Technique for Student Laboratory Theatre Company |
| SP22 | Invited Workshop on Lecoq Technique for Intermediate Studies in Acting Technique |
| SP21 | Invited Workshop on Lecoq Technique for Advanced Scene Study |
PRESENTATIONS
“Teaching the American Musical: A Collaborative Panel to Reimagine the Syllabus,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, July 25, 2026.
“Staging Nostalgia in the Old Home Movement,” New Hampshire Historical Society, January 14, 2026
“Marvelously Lifelike: Theatre as Tourism in Denman Thompson’s The Old Homestead and the Old Home Movement,” American Society for Theatre Research, November 8, 2025.
“The Dramaturgy of Nostalgia in the Old Home Movement,” Museum of the White Mountains, Plymouth State University, October 9, 2025.
“Erecting and Eroding Rural Identity in the Old Home Movement,” International Federation for Theatre Research, June 9, 2025.
“Pillar of Salt: Queer Escape and Nostophobia in Lucy Thurber’s Hilltown Plays,” The Country and the City Graduate Conference, Agrarian Studio – Cornell University, March 21, 2025.
“The Fool’s Golden Age of Bread and Puppet Circuses,” Performing and Media Arts Presentation Series, Cornell University, November 8, 2024.
“Possibilitarian Nostalgia in Bread & Puppet’s Apocalypse Defiance Circus.” American Society for Theatre Research, October 21, 2024.
“The Chronotopic Möbius Strip: A Non-orientated Methodology.” Playing in the Periphery Working Group, July 31, 2024.
“The Road to Hell/Broadway: The Rural to Urban Development of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown.” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Bruce Kirle Memorial Debut Panel, August 4, 2023.
“Place on Parade: Genre, Politics, Puppets.” Contemporary Drama in English, June 24, 2022.
“Migrations on Stage: Educating and Engaging through the Arts.” IES Migrations Series, Cornell University, March 21, 2022.
THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE
Playwriting
| 2026 | Imperfect Metaphors for Death (co-creator & puppeteer) | The Cherry Arts |
| 2025 | The Family Copōli | Edinburgh Fringe Festival |
| 2022 | Eminent Romaine | First Night North |
| 2019 | Hindsight Be-eth 20/20 (solo performance) | Tapis Théâtre, Paris |
| 2019 | Hymn for a Little Big Man (co-creator & puppeteer) | Tapis Théâtre, Paris |
| 2016 | Podunk, or The Rules We Live By (solo performance) | Brown University |
| 2013 | 12141 | Production Workshop |
Puppetry
| 2026 | The Upside Down World Circus – National Tour | Bread & Puppet Theater |
| 2022 | The Apocalypse Defiance Circus – National Tour | Bread & Puppet Theater |
| 2020 | Diagonal Life Circus – National Tour (abbreviated) | Bread & Puppet Theater |
| 2019 | Diagonal Life Circus and Extinction Rebellion Pageant | Bread & Puppet Theater |
| 2019 | Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis – Regional Tour | Bread & Puppet Theater |
| 2018 | Or Else | Bread & Puppet Theater |
| 2018 | Grasshopper Rebellion Circus and Pageant | Bread & Puppet Theater |
| 2015 | The Ugly Duckling – Regional Tour | Vermont PuppeTree |
| 2013 | Caps for Sale – Regional Tour | Vermont PuppeTree |
Directing
| 2023 | The Family Copōli | Cornell University |
| 2020 | Parenting Tips | Cornell University |
| 2016 | Caps for Sale | Vermont PuppeTree |
| 2015 | Marat/Sade | Production Workshop |
| 2013 | 12141 | Production Workshop |
Dramaturgy
| 2022 | The Wetsuitman, dir. Sam Buggeln | The Cherry Arts, Ithaca, NY |
| 2022 | Haunted Natures, Hidden Environments, dir. Kelly Richmond | Cornell University |
| 2013 | Straight White Men, dir. Young Jean Lee | Brown University |
Burlesque (Creator & Performer, Stage name: La-Di-Da)
| 2026 | Funambule | Whiskey Tango Sideshow |
| 2025 | Capitalist Blues | The Cherry Arts, Ithaca, NY |
| 2024 | Shark Attack | Whiskey Tango Sideshow |
| 2024 | Grindr Gambling | Thursgay at the Range |
| 2023 | Mariolesque | Rogue Burlesque |
| 2022 | The Candyman Can-Can | Thursgay at the Range |
| 2021 | Flame and Ash | Flame Night Fever (Virtual) |
| 2020 | La peau et l’agneau | Night Flowers (Virtual) |
| 2019 | Biblesque | Rogue Burlesque |
| 2019 | La Petite Mort | La SCEP |
Producing
| 2026 | Rake Factory Arts Festival | Rake Factory Arts |
| 2026 | Circus & Beer | Whiskey Tango Sideshow |
| 2023 | Ithaca Department of Arts & Futures | Cornell University |
| 2020 | Virtual Vibrance | Cornell University |
| 2020 | Ten-Minute Play Festival | Cornell University |
| 2016 | Urinetown | Brown Musical Forum |
| 2015 | Carousel | Brown Musical Forum |
| 2015 | Mini-Musical Fesitval | Brown Musical Forum |
| 2015 | Cabaret | Brown Musical Forum |
ARTISTIC TRAINING
Acting: Connie Crawford, Laura Rikard, Thom Jones
Directing: Beth Milles, David Feldshuh, Kym Moore
Playwriting: Elmo Terry-Morgan, Aoise Stratford
Voice for the Stage: Thom Jones
Puppetry: Alejandra Prieto, Ann Legunn
Movement: Jos Houben, Eric Nesci, Jason Turner, Anne Astolfe, Paola Rizza
SERVICE
To Cornell University
- Member of Graduate Researchers in Media and Performing Arts (President 2021-22; Treasurer 2023-24; Vice President 2024-26)
- Producer of “Ithaca Department of Arts & Futures” Eco-Performance Symposium (2023)
- Graduate Representative to the Performance & Events Committee (2020-2022)
- Producer for the At First Blush play reading series. (Fall 2021)
- Producer for Under-Construction Cabaret (Spring 2021)
- Producer of Virtual Vibrance Festival (October 2020)
To the Field
- Co-convener (with Dr. Gemma Edwards) of the Playing in the Periphery working group on rural and regional theatre and performance.
- Graduate Representative to the Music Theatre Dance Association (MTDA)
- Peer Reviewer for Monograph Proposals for Bloomsbury Methuen
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 2018-19 | Sarah Lawrence College Study Abroad, Paris, France Cultural Coordinator & Administrative Assistant Managed the cultural programming for students studying abroad. |
| 2016-18 | TAPIF, French Ministry of Education English Language Assistant Taught ESL classes at Pauline Kergomard Public Elementary School and led discussion sections at the Lycée de la Tourelle, both in Sarcelles, France. |
| 2016-20 | Freelance Translator Translated articles, videos, technical manuals from French to English. |
LANGUAGES & SKILLS
French, fluent (CEFR level C2 certified); Spanish, intermediate proficiency. Book design and binding.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for Theatre Research
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Music Theatre Dance Association