Available Workshops and Classes

• Writing Workshop Series: $75 + $25 USD reading fee per course. Course duration: 3-5 weeks depending on student schedules. Format: weekly video lectures and exercises, with individual hour-long workshop meetings once per week focused on the students’ works in progress. (Total cost, $100 per person.) Topics: Writing your Spark, Characters are People, Embodied and Disembodied Writing, Storytelling and Emotion, Revisioning Writing Past the First Draft.

• One-Session Adult Workshops: $25 USD per person. Workshops are stand-alone and usually 1.5 hours duration. Held on Zoom, with a micro lecture, discussion, and exercise. After the workshop, the writing created can be submitted to me for notes to be made on the text, which will then be returned to the participant.

• Small group youth classes: $15 USD per student, max. 15 students. Schedule flexible with student group needs, occur in 4-week learning units, roughly 2 hours per week. Topics: Story Writing from Brain to Paper, Character Creations, Poetry Party.

• Private Tutoring: $10 - $25 USD/hour depending on situation and depth of study (see Areas of Learning below)

My rates are somewhat negotiable, and I am happy to work with homeschool groups as well as individuals and families. Regardless of where my students reside, if they have an internet connection, we can have a learning experience together.

Areas of Expertise

• English Language mechanics at Elementary, Middle, High School, College Undergraduate, and Post-Graduate Level

• Reading comprehension at Elementary, Middle, High School, College Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Level

• Writing for Elementary, Middle, High School, College Undergraduate and Post-Graduate Level

• Literary Analysis

• Dramatic Writing for stage or screen

• Creative Writing in prose, poetry, or experimental forms

• Theatre making —Introductions to writing, acting, stage direction, scenic, lighting, and sound design.

• Public Speaking or Stage Presence

Credentials

I hold an MFA in Writing, and a BFA and MA in Theatre. I have been teaching theatre and English language arts classes for 7 years, most recently to college undergraduates, but I regularly teach youth as young as 7 all the way through high school. In 2019-2020, I taught 12th grade college preparatory English at the American School in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we converted our classes to eLearning in March of 2020. My Playwriting class for Winter Session 2021 at the University of Montana has also been remotely delivered. These experiences have given me the opportunity to create flexible and student-oriented curricula for eLearning.