Relevant Theatre Experience (Directing)

Collaborating Director - Dramaturg - Performer / REVIVAL / Timothy White Eagle and The Violet Triangle at On the Boards - Seattle (2022)

Collaborating Director - Dramaturg - Performer / The Indigo Room / Timothy White Eagle and The Violet Triangle at La MaMa E.T.C. - NYC (2021)

Director / The Events / Intiman Theatre - Seattle (2019)

Director - Art Director / Blackbird / 18th & Union and White Rabbits, Inc. - Seattle (2019)

Director - Lead Divisor / Everything’s Fine / Cornish College of the Arts - Seattle (2019)

Director - Art Director - Dramaturg / 140 LBS. / Susan Lieu / On the Boards NWNW Festival and Bumbershoot Festival - Seattle (2018)

Director / Smoked! / Cafe Nordo - Seattle (2018)

Director / The Realistic Joneses / New Century Theatre Company - Seattle (2017)

Director / The People's Republic of Valerie / On the Boards - Seattle (2017)

Director / The Seagull / Whitman College - Walla Walla (2016)

Director / Fireface / SPLINTER GROUP – Seattle (2015)

Director / Sauced / Cafe Nordo – Seattle (2015)

Director / Knocking Bird / SPLINTER GROUP and Umbrella Project at West of Lenin – Seattle (2015)

Director / Three Tall Women / Whitman College – Walla Walla (2015)

Director / Nine (featuring Cynthia Geary) / Arouet Theatre – Seattle (2015)

Director - Adaptor / Three Sisters / Cornish College of the Arts – Seattle (2014)

Director - Lead Divisor / The Salesman is Dead and Gone / Splinter Group - Seattle (2013)

Director / Bo-Nita / Seattle Repertory Theatre (2013)

Director - Set Designer / Mud / Cornish College of the Arts – Seattle (2013)

Director / Fefu and Her Friends / Cornish College of the Arts – Seattle (2012)

Director / Hamlet / Cornish College of the Arts - Seattle (2011)

Director / Lead Divisor / A Really, Really Good Cause / Cornish College of the Arts - Seattle (2010)

Director - Set Designer / Edmond / Balagan Theatre - Seattle (2010)

Director - Set Designer / King Lear / Rough Play Productions - Seattle (2008)

Director - Set Designer / The Ferryman / Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre - Vilnius, Lithuania (2008)

Assistant Director - Performer - Dramaturg / Cuckoo Crow / Degenerate Art Ensemble at REDCAT Theatre– Los Angeles (2007)

Director / Measure for Measure / State Youth Theatre of Lithuania – Vilnius, Lithuania (2007)

Director / Mavra (opera – composer: I. Stravinsky) / Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre and “Gaida” Festival of Relevant Music - Vilnius, Lithuania (2005

Director - Lead Divisor / Panacea (contemporary dance) / Lithuanian Dance Information Center - Vilnius, Lithuania (2005)

Director / The Saint Plays (playwright - E. Ehn) / State Youth Theatre of Lithuania — Vilnius, Lithuania (2005)

Associate Director (lead director – J. Vaitkus) / The Merchant of Venice / Kaunas State Drama Theatre - Kaunas, Lithuania (2003) / “Sirens” International Theatre Festival - Vilnius, Lithuania (2004)

Assistant Director - Performer / Cantio (contemporary opera) (director – O. Korsunovas) / Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre at the Munich Bienale — Munich, Germany (2004)

Assistant Director - Co-Writer - Actor / ATF: A Burlesque / Annex Theatre - Seattle (1999)

Director - Lead adaptor / Bartleby / Annex Theatre - Seattle (1999)

Assistant Director - Performer / SCREAM!LionDogs / The Young Composers Collective at On The Boards - Seattle (1999)

Assistant Director / Performer / Hell’s Cauldron / The Young Composers Collective at On The Boards - Seattle (1998)

Relevant Theatre Experience (Performing)

I Love That For You / Acker Stadt Palast (Berlin) / Solo performer and creator

BLIND / Acker Stadt Palast (Berlin) / Solo performer and creator

The Indigo Room / Timothy White Eagle and The Violet Triangle at La MaMa E.T.C. (NYC) / Preacher

Clear Blue Sky (dir. B. Abraham) / On the Boards - Northwest New Works Festival / Solo performer and creator

Riddled (dir. B. Abraham) / Richard Hugo House / The Man

The White Days / New City Theatre / Ted

(IN)STABILITY / On the Boards / Solo performer and creator

The Cherry Orchard (dir. K. Smeds) / Smeds Ensemble (Finland) / New Drama Action (Vilnius) / The Vienna Festival (Vienna) - The State Youth Theatre (Vilnius) / Trofimov

Cuckoo Crow (chor. H. Nishimura) / Degenerate Art Ensemble at REDCAT Theatre (L.A.) / Surgeon

The Very Beginning’s Beginning (dir. J. Vaitkus) / National Drama Theatre of Lithuania / Pajaco

Cantio (contemporary opera – dir. O. Korsunovas), Oskaras Korsunovas Theatre / Munich Bienale / Water

ATF: A Burlesque / Annex Theatre / Bill, Young Tom

Dirty Little Secrets / Annex Theatre / Frank, Michael, Tommy

Beatrice / Annex Theatre / Samuel

SCREAM!LionDogs (choreo. H. Nishimura) / On The Boards / Young Composers Collective / Mark

Penetralia / Annex Theatre / Cameron

Little Rootie Tootie / Annex Theatre / Ivo, Terry

Hell’s Cauldron (chor. H. Nishimura) / On The Boards / Young Composers Collective – The Supervisor

Escher’s Hands / AHA! Theatre – Steve

Much Ado About Nothing (dir. Rosa Joshi) / New City Theatre – Claudio

As You Like It / New City Theatre – Oliver

The Investigation / A Theatre Under the Influence – Mulka

Machinal (dir. Sheila Daniels) / A Theatre Under the Influence - Lover/Jailer

Education and Professional Development

  • MFA, Theatre Directing – Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy - Vilnius, Lithuania (2003)

  • BA, Political Science (Minor in Theatre and Drama) – Indiana University (1995)

  • New Aesthetics (master class seminar) - Mariano Pensotti (fiction and conceptual development) / Toshiki Okada (image-based performance) - Vancouver (2014)

  • Fundamentals of Clowning - George Lewis, Stephanie Roberts (2001)

  • Biomechanics technique - George Lewis, Tom Wiseley (2001)

  • Viewpoints technique - Sheila Daniels (1997)

Relevant Teaching Experience

Adjunct Faculty - Cornish College of the Arts - Seattle (2010 – 2020)

  • Advanced Scene Study

  • Ensemble Creation Project (devised theatre)

  • Interdisciplinary Art

  • Physical Approaches to Classical Texts

  • Physical Theatre - Biomechanics (on-call substitute for K. MacDonald)

  • Solo Performance (on-call substitute for K. MacDonald)

Faculty – Freehold Studio Lab Theatre - Seattle (2012 – 2020)

  • Solo Performance

  • Movement for Actors - fundamentals of Biomechanics

  • Devised Theatre

Assistant Lecturer - Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy - Vilnius, Lithuania (2003-2006, 2008)

Oversaw development of three-year cohort program — work included:

  • Introductory acting concepts of character and actor presence

  • Principles of composition work

  • Foundations of vocal technique

  • Introductory to advanced scene work

  • Viewpoints technique

  • Biomechanics technique

  • Rehearsal and production of thesis performance

Visiting Professor – Iceland Academy of the Arts - Reykjavik, Iceland (November 2006)

  • Taught month-long intensive in Biomechanics technique

Awards

  • U.S. State Department Fulbright Grantee to Lithuania (2001-2002)

  • Boulder Fringe Festival / ”Best of Fest” / The Two-Step / Solo performance by Christine Longe (2018)

  • Seattle Fringe Festival / “Audience Choice Award” / The Two-Step / Solo performance by Christine Longe (2014)

  • Seattle Times “Footlight” Award / ”Best of the Small Houses” / Edmond (2010)

  • MENUFAKTURA.LT (Lithuanian theatre website) / “Reader’s Poll, Top 5 Shows” / Measure for Measure (2007)

  • Lithuanian Ministry of Culture / “Golden Cross of the Stage” - Co-nominee for Best Director / The Merchant of Venice (2004)

  • Seattle Weekly / “Top Ten Plays of the Year” / Bartleby (1999)

  • Backstage West Magazine / “Honorable Mention - Best Adaptation” / Bartleby (1999)

  • National Society of Arts & Letters / Herman B. Wells Scholarship (1995)