Nine productions, six stages, one director's chair.

Theater is not something I picked up as a teacher. I grew up on stage, and it carried straight into college, where I sang with the Anderson University Chorale, an award-winning ensemble I traveled overseas with and one that appears on television every year in its Candles and Carols concert. The formal training that came with it, in voice, music theory, aural comprehension, and keyboard, is the same foundation I later drew on to design a UC-approved digital music course at the secondary level.

When COVID closed the stages in 2020, the work did not stop. I moved it online, teaching voice training and singing classes remotely until live performance came back.

A season of theater is a lesson in program building: budgeting, licensing, set and costume logistics, parent volunteer coordination, and technical supervision, all running alongside the artistic work of direction, choreography, and musical direction. I have led productions at six schools and organizations, for students from elementary school through high school, and the range is the point. The room changes. The work does not: set a high standard, build each student's path to reach it, and then hand them the show. By closing weekend of the 2026 Wizard of Oz, my final production there, I stood in the booth with my headset on and said nothing. The students ran it all.