Directing
A look into my current and past directing projects!
Pictured: Lizzy Molina Photographer: Audrey Lurten Faculty Mentor: Ashley Miller-Scully
Pictured: Damian Schaffnit, Mason Enright, Kody Paris, Jadan Zelch, Alea Ware, Audrey Shepard Photographer: Audrey Lurten Faculty Mentor: Ashley Miller-Scully
Pictured: Damian Schaffnit, Mason Enright, Kody Paris, Jadan Zelch, Alea Ware, Audrey Shepard, Lizzy Molina, Ava Broermann, McKenna Sanford Photographer: Audrey Lurten Faculty Mentor: Ashley Miller-Scully
Pictured: Lizzy Molina Photographer: Audrey Lurten Faculty Mentor: Ashley Miller-Scully
In Pieces - February 2026
In Pieces, was be performed as my chosen honors project as a part of the UCM Honors College. It explores love, self expression, and identity through music and creates distinct personalities across it's eight characters. The musical experience was celebrated as another "heartwarming slam dunk" by audiences.
Boxed In - February 2025
Boxed In was performed as part of the UCM Theatre and Dance Studio One-Acts. It explores family, love, and self through comedy and mime.
Audiences received the production as an honest, genuine look at queer existence and family circumstances, leaving them feeling cathartic relief at its heart-warming end.
Featuring: Chris Schilligo and Cal Klaus Technical Direction: Alyna Mathews Photo: Quinn Allen
Featuring: Chris Schilligo and Cal Klaus Technical Direction: Alyna Mathews Photo: Quinn Allen
Featuring: Chris Schilligo and Cal Klaus Technical Direction: Alyna Mathews Photo: Quinn Allen
Featuring: Chris Schilligo and Cal Klaus Technical Direction: Alyna Mathews Photo: Quinn Allen
Conference - October 2025
Conference was a devised work in the UCM Fringe Festival. It experimented with doing one show in two locations, and it challengeed actors to create entirely unique and original characters while showcasing one story in two separate spaces.
Audiences were surprised to feel connected to characters even as they connected through a screen. They noted that the world-building executed by the devising team created strong, honest truths beyond what was presented on stage.
NPF Staged Readings - October 2024
NPF or New Play Festival is a semi annual event at UCM where student written, directed, and acted play are showcased to the community often for feedback about playwrighting and directing skills
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These pieces are a unique challenge to direct as the entirety of the story must be told through the language rather than movement and stage picture
Audiences commented on the strength of the relationships presented, remarking that they connected with the honesty of the characters even amidst the absence of technical elements.