PhD Performance Studies Womens & Gender Studies Graduate Certificate Education Education: MFA - Acting - New York Film Academy BA- English - Minor in Theatre, Film, and Media Studies - St. Mary's College of Maryland Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, St. Peter’s College, University of Oxford,United Kingdom Study Abroad Program Yale Summer Actors Conservatory - Yale University New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts Summer Intensive Acting Programs Research Research Areas: Theatre & Performance Studies Performance Voice for the Actor Interdisciplinary Arts Dissertation/Thesis Title: “Feminist Sonic Materialism: Sounding the Female Voice from Written Text to Adaptation” Selected Publications Selected Publications: “Listening to Lucy: Lucille Ball’s Vocal Innovations in Radio and Television.” In the Forthcoming Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, &Performance Volume 1: Performers, A Bloomsbury Series by Methuen Drama, Chapter co-written with Dr. Gabrielle Compton Sinclair, 2026 “The Ceiling Fan Speaks” In Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising, ed. Hillary Bucs and Charissa Menefee, Published by Rutledge, Exercise co-written with Dr. Gabrielle Compton Sinclair, 2023 Awards, Honors, and Recognition Of note: 2024 & 2025 Mellon Foundation Building Southern Intersectional Futures Affirming Multivocal Humanities Grant 2024-2025 UGA Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Jo Ann Terry Walker Scholarship 2024 UGA Wilson Center Graduate Research Award 2021-2022 & 2024-2025 Academic Year UGA Franklin College of Arts & Sciences Jane Mulkey & Rufus King Green Grad Fellowship 2022 UGA Center for Teaching & Learning Department of Theatre & Film Studies Outstanding Teaching Award 2022 Society of Voice Arts & Sciences Voice Arts Awards Best Animation and Video Game Demo Reel Nominee, Warner Brothers Studios, Burbank, California 2021 New York Best Actor & Director Awards Best Experimental Director 2020 American Legion Auxiliary of California’s Non-Traditional Student Award 2017 Society of Voice Arts & Sciences Voice Arts Awards Best Commercial Voiceover Demo Reel Nominee, Lincoln Center, New York City 2016 W.I.N.D. (Women, Inspiration, Nation & Diversity) Best Actress Award 2016 Hollywood Verge Awards Best Actress Nominee 2015 International Independent Film Awards Gold Award for Best Actress in A Leading Role 2010 St. Mary's College of Maryland Student of the Year - The National Honors College 2008 Paul H. Nitze Scholar, leadership in a global setting training, Japan Cohort
