CURRENT MISSION

experience more people, uplift my community, dance always and everywhere, support more art, grow more plants, learn more languages. and how to cook...and bike (maybe)...

ABOUT ME

The more I study art the more I become addicted to learning everything, including the "non-art." Because those things have been important to someone I have met somewhere, and I find their passion fascinating and catching. And I genuinely believe everything is interconnected, and that subject differentiation is sometimes an unhelpful construct. I wish I could be a professional student.

While my focus is theatre and theatre education, I consider myself more of a generalist, and can't see myself having a single "career path" because in my view, everything is learning, everything is patterns, and everything you do or learn can be applied to the betterment of all the other things you do - and to empowering individuals and communities.
I will likely be exploring various international jobs, performing opportunities and humanitarian projects intermittently - or simultaneously - until perpetuity. The more things I do, the more fuel I have to do them, somehow.

In the future, I'd like to get an MFA in Directing, and perhaps a PhD in cognitive psychology (potentially Masters or so in Applied Theatre/Drama Therapy,) a Pilot's Certificate, a yoga teaching credential (edit: 200-Hr acquired in 2018!). Maybe one day a Massage Therapy License, just to learn.

I am attracted to the idea of teaching theatre in other countries, but the reality of A) cost and time B) wanting to also perform C) sacrificing developing deeper roots in **one** place at an important life phase of mine has brought me to root in Los Angeles while exploring during the summers.

Ideally I want to always be involved in meaningful work that combines theatre and travel/cultural exploration and psychology/holistic communities, and which allows me to always be engaged in and/or to facilitate community.

I currently teach elementary Theatre and am on the board of directors/recurrent theatrical director for a Theatre non profit in Costa Rica. (Formerly I have been involved as a high school theatre teacher, the assistant director for a group of blind actors and a group of veterans in L.A., and an actor in a troupe that performs internationally in interactive forum theatre-style plays that encourage bystander intervention and that advocate for victims of sexual assault, among other things. I love applied theatre! A lot of our best learning is playful and participatory!). I also teach my cat tricks - he can ring a service bell, jump through hoops, high five, fist bump, sit, sit 'pretty', shake paws, and twirl in a circle. This was our pandemic project and he is to date my best student. <3

I am not very good at being cooped up in the place where I live. I can relax and often crave solo introspection time, but I get very excited about the opportunity to move, to learn, and to have new experiences with good people. I like getting to know people through dance and play.
I have learned to heartily enjoy the company of pretty much anyone. I think people and the things that get them excited (or make them afraid) to live are absolutely fascinating.

I have recently returned to piano, journaling and reading, but would like to one day return to creative writing. I love salsa dancing, and am on a performance team at the moment. I have found so many salsa communities in other countries, which is a beautiful thing.

PHILOSOPHY

I live for open exchanges and freeing experiences where nobody censors and nobody judges. I think it is poisonous to go looking for those things, and so I feel like if I live a good life those people and those opportunities will naturally fall into place. And they always do, in the best of ways, thankfully.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

I love the human condition.

兴趣

music, Sushi, Jazz, theatre, live performances, street artists, getting to know people, solving problems, impromptu impulse "poetry", learning people's stories, learning everything, learning to enjoy time spent alone, spontaneous new things, traditional old things, word play, interpretive dance, all styles of dance, expanding my interests, eating new food, bonding over food, feeling everything except anxiety, true best friends, strangers who say hello.

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• performing arts
• street art
• photography
• acting
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• bachata
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• wine
• cheese
• fitness
• yoga
• massage therapy
• flying
• clothing
• traveling
• pottery
• music
• jazz
• freelancing
• history
• languages
• psychology
• sociology
• salsa
• ceramics

音乐、电影和书籍

stevie wonder, Caravan Palace, the lucksmiths, eminem, shakira, ben folds, Jonsi, jazz, street performers, African drums, Latin rhythms, Muse, Natalie Lafourcade, Kiltro,
kurt vonnegut, plays, psychology literature
charlie kaufman films, kurosawa films, wes anderson films, cerebral films, The Florida Project, Amelie, Coco, Force Majeure.
Music to think to, to emote through, to sleep to, to dance with.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

I have eaten some superb guacamole and played with some wonderful people.

Lived on Jeju Island in South Korea for two years living and working with some incredible boarding students, and even directing a bit and working with the drama classes!

Spring of 2010 I sailed around the world for 4 months taking classes on a ship and learning about the artistic expression, history, family units, values and cultures of 8-9 different countries in the context of lectures, dances, discussions, conversations had within our beautiful floating academic community, and also firsthand.

I was absolutely amazed by the growth and learning opportunities afforded to me during my undergraduate studies!! A B.A. in theatre, minors in music, psychology and philosophy, ...plus ample dance and fitness classes, a great film department, sporadic sociology classes! I could not get enough! Loved my M.A. program as well. I absolutely love and am amazed by learning environments!!!

I spent the night on the Great Wall once. It was cold.

教，学，和分享

Yes, please. All things. Any thing. I am game. Let's share music and languages!!

I am particularly dying to learn: to fly, drumming, instruments of all kinds, massage techniques, more about wine, cheese (/cheesemaking), making pretty much anything (soap, chocolate, printmaking, clothes), ceramics, visual art, ..also film/photography

And I am of course ALWAYS up to learn more techniques and styles of dance, movement, acting, voice for singers, etc.!!!!!

I love learning. It literally pained me to be in my last semester of undergrad. I took 14 different classes that semester and I loved it.

我游览过的国家

Aruba, Austria, Belize, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, San Marino, Scotland, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

我居住过的国家

Costa Rica, South Korea, United States