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Current Projects

• A physical theatre/puppet play in which bees deal with human-created challenges. (more info)
• A physical theatre piece that explores performative physical transformation.
• A physical theatre piece that speaks to the emotional weight a woman carries in a world that’s struggling with the echoes of antiquated and brutal notions and laws surrounding the concept of Coverture.

Lecoq-tradition devised and physical theatre and performance studies at Columbia College Chicago in partnership with Arthaus Berlin International School (formerly LISPA):

• movement, movement analysis
• embodied dramaturgy, music, art and writing
• improvisation, voice/singing, rhythm, acrobatics
• neutral, larval and expressive mask performance, mask-making
• storytelling, character creation, clown, platform
• collaborative/ensemble and solo devising
• theatre festival production

California State University, Chico

• field and studio video production, editing/post
• broadcast television news production
• broadcast radio production
• audio production – voiceover, narration, editing
• screenwriting, audio scriptwriting
• film photography
• additional studies in business and management information systems

Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California

• acting I, II & III
• musical theatre
• voice & diction
• directing
• text-based ensemble devised theatre
• wig and stage makeup design
• stage lighting
• front-of-house management
• theatre marketing and promotion
• additional studies in ethnomusicology, modern dance, drawing, jewelry-making and business

• advanced public speaker
• club officer trainer
• special topics trainer/workshop leader at District 57 Conference
• club officer (President, Secretary, VP-Education, VP-Public Relations)
• District 57 conference chair, conference program chair
• District 57 Webmaster
• Division F Governor
• Area F20 Governor

Additional arts classes, workshops and apprenticeships:

• FatChanceBellyDance®Style (formerly American Tribal Style®) bellydance with Carolena Nericcio and others of FatChanceBellyDance
• Wig Design and Tech Apprentice – Summer Repertory Theatre, Santa Rosa, California
• The Art of Improvisation (Sketch Improv) drop-ins with Jill Eickmann and staff of Leela, San Francisco, California
• Puppetry Basics with Finn Caldwell of Gyre & Gimble/Royal National Theatre
• Voice Acting workshops and private sessions with Elaine Clark and David Rosenthal of Voice One, Adriana Davis of D-Squared Media NYC, Susan Berkley of The Great Voice Company

Thank you for your email. I will get back to you as soon as possible.

– Dori