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HIGHLIGHTS

Playwright

Three Leaches/Buntport Theater, CO

Theater 29 CoLab,CO 

  The Grand Theatre, GA

Finalist - MicroTheatre DCPA Off Center

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Poet

Palace of Waning - 2025 chapbook published by

Finishing Line Press

Fish Barrel Review 2025, Jerry Jazz Musician 2025

Colorado Women's History Museum 2024, Welter Dec 2023, Gyroscope Review, Plum Tree Tavern, Splintered Disorder Press, Third Estate Art's Quaranzine, Capsule Stories, Writing in a Women's Voice, Minnow Literary Magazine, boats against the current, renaissance review

 

Fellowship Summer Literary Seminar

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Nonfiction - Lavender Bones "All Bites are Off"

 

Short Fiction - Jerry Jazz Musician 

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Ghost Writer - Over 150,000 words sold

 

Songwriter - New York Film Festival - Silver & Bronze

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Arts Grant Recipient - SCFD 3 yrs, Alliance, Foundation 3 yrs, Women in Their Infinite Forms Artist 2024

 

Teacher Awards - Malcolm Knowles Award, Verne Shelley Scholarship, Teacher of the Year, Colorado Association for Gifted & Talented Award of Excellence

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Actor Awards - Best Ensemble - Denver Drama Critics

Best Season for an Actress Nomination - Denver Drama Critics

Best Actress for the Season - The Victorian Theater

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Credentials: About

EXPERIENCE

Athena Project

Artist 2025 Body Power

Guest Artist Girls Write Camp 2024 & 2025

Artist 2024 Women in their Infinite Forms

Poet 2024

New Plays Reader 2018

New Plays Actor 2019

Girls Write Teacher 2023

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Three Leaches/Buntport Theater

December 2022

 

Denver Writing Project

July 2022

 

The Grand Theater

2021 Playwright

 

Theater 29

2020 & 2021 CoLab Playwrights

 

DCPA Off Center

MicroTheatre Playwright Finalist

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Rocky Vista University & Centura

Actor/Teacher - Medical Students 2018-2023

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science 

Actor/Teacher - Children & Adults

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Public School Teacher

Cherry Creek Schools,

Ft. Morgan, Jeffco, DPS,

U.S. Dept. of Defense Japan

 

Legacy Book Awards Judge

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The Search Institute

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Actor

Voice Over - Audible +

New Play Workshops

Original Dickens Carolers

Colorado Renaissance Festival

Ascot Dinner Theater

Shwayder Theater

The Victorian

Shakespeare Festival

Denver Civic Theater

UCD Theater

JCC

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Songwriter

CCSD

Cenikor

Phamaly

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Ghostwriter

...can't say...

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Business

(Don't) Hate Your Deck

Spydercam & FX West

Ascot Dinner Theater

Horizon Travel Agency

Life Partners Group

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Credentials: About

CREDENTIALS

MA

Communication

Regis University Denver, CO

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BA

Theatre Arts & Business Administration

Metro State University Denver, CO

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+75 eclectic graduate credit hours (and growing) in areas of interest, need, or

because someone inspiring is teaching

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Teaching Endorsements (current):

K - 6 Education

K-12 English/Language Arts

K - 12 Drama

Gifted Education

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Additional Certifications:

Teacher Leadership

Mentoring

Impact Study-Marzano

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Additional Training:

Cognitive Coaching

Advanced Cognitive Coaching

Adapative Schools

WEB Leadership

Differentiation Coaching

Tointon Leadership Academy

Educator Liaison

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