SKILLS + TRAINING

Education + Training + Practice

• BA Theatre Concentration (cum laude), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
• Introduction to Non-Traditional Occupations for Women, Algonquin College

VOICE AND SINGING

• Community Singing, Sing Together Victoria, Bernhard Spalteholz (2025-present)
• Indigenous Drum Songs, Aunty Collective, Victoria B.C. (2026)
• Indigenous Drum Songs, Gordy Bear, Friendship House, Victoria, B.C. (2026)
• Indigenous Drum Songs, Unity Drummers, Victoria Native Friendship Centre (2024-25)
• Singing with the Voice of God, Blair Francis, Forest of Voices, Salt Spring Island (2025)
• Vocal Freedom and Expression through Improvisation, Vivian Houle, VCM (2003-04)
• Vocal Improvisation, Ella Morel, Cari Burdett, Susannah Adams (Forest of Voices, Salt Spring Island) and Susannah Adams, Independent, Victoria (2025)
• Vocal Liberation, Alex King Harris, Independent, Victoria, B.C. (2017-2019)
• Jazz, Brighton Jazz Co-op, Brighton, U.K.; UJam, Victoria, B.C. (2010-2012)
• Voice for Singing (1980-2012): William Weiss, June Bender, Mahdi Body Darroch (Ottawa); Sandra Ortega Martín (Barcelona); Tran Quang Ha, Making New Waves Festival, Trafo (Budapest)
• Voice, New Music Voice Festival, Open Space, Victoria, May 2006 — workshops with D.B. Boyko (Sound Poet, Western Front), Dutton (Sound Poet, Toronto), and Wende Bartley (Earth-Echo workshop)
• Dialects and Accents, ACTRA, Montreal, Quebec

PERFORMANCE ART

• Therapy Conversation, Conversation Therapy: Nicola Gunn Workshop, Intrepid Theatre, Victoria, B.C.
• (Un)Symposium: Akademy of Human & Performance Art Aktions, Margaret Dragu and Jörn J. Burmester
• Guillermo Gómez Peña & Saul Garcia Lopez, Open Space
• Performance Art, Rachel Rosenthal, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
• Performance Art for the Camera, SAW Video, Ottawa
• Performance Art, Richard Layzell
• Performance Art, Watchface

DANCE + MOVEMENT

• Meagan O’Shea, StandUp Dance, Victoria, B.C. 2020
• Belly Dancing, Budapest, Hungary 2002-03
• Butoh Dance, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
• Contact Improvisation (practice), Victoria Contact Improv Jam, Victoria 2018
• Choreography, Ottawa Dance Festival, Ottawa
• Yoga – lifelong practice includes Hatha, Vinyasa, TM

APPLIED THEATER

• Theatre for Living: Level 1, David Diamond, Headlines Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Theater Works River Chandler, Victoria, B.C., (as part of Victoria Community Council’s Week of Corporate Social Responsibility)
• Drama Therapy, Tiszta Szinhas/The Clean Theater, Sandor Mozes as part of the European Treatment Centers for Drug Addiction Annual Conference, Budapest, Hungary, October, 2005.
• Theater of the Oppressed, Lena de Guevara, Victoria, B.C.
• Transformational Theatre, Lena de Guevara, Victoria, B.C.

MUSIC

• Improvisation and the Musical Mind, Wes Carroll, VCM (Victoria Conservatory of Music)
• Improvisation, Victoria Conservatory of Music
• Practical Music Theory, Wes Carroll, VCM
• Songwriting, Stephen Fearing, Independent, Victoria
• Ukulele, Wes Carroll (private); Friends of Music Society (group), Victoria, B.C.

MASKS

The Storytelling Body, Wonderheads, Impulse Theatre Peek Fest, Victoria

STORYTELLING

Deb Williams, The Flame, Belfry Theatre, Victoria

ACTING + CREATIVE DRAMATICS

• Audition Techniques, Artist2Artist
• Text Analysis for Actors w/ Raugi Yu, ACTRA-UBCP Zoom
• Terry Tweed, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont.
• Graham Whitehead, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.
• Cheryl Cashman, University of Ottawa
• Brenda Anderson, Red Deer Community College, Red Deer, Alberta

COMEDY

• Comedy Improvisation: Blind Tiger Comedy, Garden City Improv, SCTV
• Stand-up Comedy: Kirsten van Ritzen, Diane Kuch
• Sketch Comedy Writing, Kevin McDonald, Paper Street Theatre, Victoria.

CLOWNING

• Clown School, Britt Small, Atomic Vaudeville, Victoria, B.C. 2018

MEDIA ARTS (AND RELATED)

• Isadora, Milton Lim, Impulse Theatre Peekfest, Intrepid Theatre Victoria
• MaxMSP/Jitter, Jasch, Making New Waves Festival, Trafo, Budapest
• Media Arts for the Camera, Media Net, Victoria, B.C., Canada
• Writing for Media Arts, Tom Sherman, SAW Gallery/Video, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Photography, Justin Wonnacott, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa
• Video Camera and Editing, SAW Video, Ottawa
• Sound Walking, Hildegarde Westerkamp, Open Space, Victoria, B.C.

PERFORMANCE

• Acting for the Camera, Media Net, Victoria, B.C.
• Video and Performance, Richard Layzell
• Dialects and Accents, ACTRA, Montreal, Quebec

SCREENWRITING

• Media Net, Victoria, B.C.
• Dramatic Screenwriting, Tom Shoebridge, Algonquin College, Ottawa

SHAKESPEARE

Group workshops & private coaching, Lewis Hancock, The Original Shakespeare Company

TECHNICAL THEATRE

Lighting design, audio production, set construction, costumes and properties — University of Ottawa, Ottawa

DIVERSITY INCLUSION

Unconscious Bias, Elevate Inclusion, ACTRA-UBCP, Vancouver

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