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FUTURE COLLABORATOR!

about me:

• I dig visceral work that hits you in the gut.

• I’m drawn to stories of rupture and repair — women behaving badly, landscapes remembering, young people imagining a future worth fighting for.

• I make work that begins in the body and opens toward myth, memory, and transformation.

• I dig place-based performance — how land, memory, and space shape the stories we tell.

  
  

  I’m a director, educator, and performance-maker working across theatre, movement, and film. My practice is rooted in embodied collaboration, cultural memory, and myth — with an eye toward language and ecological urgency. Based in Berlin, I teach and direct internationally, developing original work and coaching the next generation of performers.

my story:

I’m a director, educator, and performance maker based in Berlin.

My work lives at the intersection of text and movement, myth and memory. I’m drawn to stories where bodies remember what words forget — to women who break things, young people who imagine new worlds, and landscapes that refuse to stay silent. I work across theatre, dance and film, often blending physical language with deep dramaturgy and collaborative process.

Originally from Virginia, USA, I studied dance, voice, and theatre from a young age and earned my BA in Interdisciplinary Arts Administration from the University of Virginia — a self-designed combination of media studies, economics, drama, and practical cultural organizing. I found my way into directing by accident — and haven’t looked back.

After undergrad, I trained through hands-on experience: interning and assisting with regional theatres (Huntington Theatre Company, DC’s Theater Alliance, Boston’s New Rep, Live Arts in Charlottesville, VA, the Kennedy Center’s DeVos Institute for Arts Management), new work companies (Fresh Ink, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), worked internationally (Tabard Theatre, London) and international labs (Director’s Lab North, Toronto; Insted Israel Director’s Lab, Tel Aviv).

Between 2014–2018, I directed and choreographed over a dozen professional productions in the Boston area (Huntington Theatre Company, New Rep, Fresh Ink, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, the Umbrella Center for the Arts, Stoneham Theatre, Bad Habit Productions, Wellesley College, The Open Theatre Project, Reckless Theatre Company, Boston Public Works, and others) and was mentored by artists including Maria Friedman, Summer L. Williams, and Peter DuBois.

I earned my MFA in Directing from prestigious The Theatre School at DePaul University (Chicago) between 2018–2021, a hands-on and practice-based program focused on actor training, embodied dramaturgy, and collaborative leadership, under the leadership and mentorship of Lisa Portes and Damon Kiely. There I directed nine projects and productions ranging from absurdist classics to contemporary ensemble work to experiments with hybrid digital forms. These include Dance Nation (2021), A Love Play (2020), and Polaroid Stories (2019).

In 2021, I moved to Germany as a US Fulbright Scholar in Theater Directing. I spent that year studying tanztheater and the work of Pina Bausch and creating original work about climate collapse, folklore, and new ritual. I’ve since made Berlin my home base — collaborating across forms, languages, and disciplines.

During this period I worked with Berlin’s Volksbühne (MiniMe, dir. Kornél Mundruczó), arthaus.berlin Centre for Embodied Performance, was an artist-in-residence for the collaborative exhibitition Embers at Kulturschöpfer’s IN/BETWEEN Residency, an artist-in-residence for the 2023 edition of kodekü (Kollision der Künste) where I made the installtion film (ein)wanderer / (aus)wanderer and a participant in the 2022 Sommer Film Akademie in Görlitz, DE where I made the tanzfilm Lady in White (Signals Festival, Lausitz Festival, TanzortNord).

I currently teach acting and movement at Catalyst Institute for Arts and Technology and BIMM Berlin and founded Studio LeBolt, a Berlin-based space for actor coaching and performance training in English. I regularly freelance with independent studios like Acting Muscle, Art-on-the-Run Film Studio, and InterAct English. My teaching is rooted in presence, precision, and play.

I’m developing several new works as both a director and creator, including Lott(e), or the Oblivion of Salt, an ecofeminist performance film shaped by Yiddish lullabies and family lore (Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab Fellowship, 2025-2026), and No One Comes Back, a world-premiere one-woman show by Maureen Gleason (English Theatre of Berlin, Nov. 2025 premiere), exploring family, responsibility, and power.

I’m now building a practice that brings together directing, teaching, and making new work — rooted in collaboration, shaped by movement, and driven by questions of memory, myth, and place. Whether I’m in a rehearsal room, a classroom, or out in the field, I’m interested in what bodies know, how stories travel, and what it takes to create spaces where risk, rigor, and imagination can thrive.

join me in exploring:

forms

• Embodied performance for stage and screen

• New play development & interdisciplinary creation

• Movement and theatre direction

• Devised and collaboratively generated work

• Experimental film & tanzfilm

• Environmental and site-responsive performance

• Actor training & educational directing (university, youth, and adult learners)

subjects

• Contemporary plays about memory, myth, and resistance

• The body — as a site of transformation, contradiction, and truth

• Feminist and ecofeminist storytelling

• Epic forms, folklore, and cultural ritual

• Climate justice and the imaginative power of place

• Migration, lineage, and stories that cross time and borders

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