![]() They feel empowered to tell their own stories, and through empowering them, they engage more critically with the work. What do your students like best about your classes? Perhaps that I encourage the active application of critical thinking via the creation of new and re-imagined narratives. I’ve been writing professionally for the last 11 years and have a prolific career in New York and nationally, and I hope that personal experience proves beneficial. What background and experience do you have in your field of study that benefits your students? The true benefit I bring to my students is real-life experience and a national network of other professionals’ experience in this fickle and changing industry. My favorite technique is that of the commons-based approach, whereas it uses models like commons-based peer production coined by Harvard Law School’s Yochai Benkler, but making it accessible for the arts as implemented by movements like the Latinx Theatre Commons, Climate and Performance Commons, and HowlRound Theatre Commons. ![]() ![]() What’s your favorite classroom activity or teaching technique? I am invested in actively investigating ways to decolonize the classroom as well as the rehearsal rooms, meaning a more circular approach to sharing knowledge rather than the colonizing mechanism of “expert” teaching “inexpert.” In the arts, it is vital that we consciously push the envelope on our practice and the classroom is the laboratory of that type of long-lasting creation of new arts pedagogy. This is only my second semester in this type of setting as a visiting professor of practice. How long have you been a teacher? I am a practicing playwright who has had the opportunity to lead writing workshops and classes in conservatory settings including at Milagro Theatre, the National Theatre Institute and Kingsborough Community College. What do you teach? I teach playwriting, directing and other special topics. Department/College: Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Liberal Arts
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