This weekend we opened Turn of the Screw at U-M, directed by faculty director Chía Patiño. I had an absolutely blast working with her...

I just recently learned that my high school drama teacher, Hilda Imhoff, died . She was 86 and still living in Baltimore. I had looked...

In July 2021 I started a crochet blanket project. I saw different interpretations of Janie Crow’s Persian Tile crochet throw and wanted...

My transition back to creative work has been a slow one post-pandemic. I assumed an enormous amount of administrative work for my...

As an Extended Reality add-on to the MOOC (massive open online course) Black Performance as Protest  developed by Professors Louise...

What is a MOOC? It’s a an acronym that stands for “Massive Open Online Course” with the goal of reaching a global audience who would not...

I had an absolute blast designing this opera at U-M, directed by the fabulously creative Greg Keller. Great process overall with amazing...

We’re trying a Saturday morning Urban Sketchers class at our local art center. It is very interesting to be a student again. I’m really...

One last post as I reflect on teaching Advanced Costume Design last term. I developed another mini-project that disrupts the “paper...

Next up in my series of disrupting the paper project model- a collaboration with the Dept. of Musical Theatre on their New Works...

Here we are, deep in to winter term- I am continuing to reconsider what skills to practice in an advanced costume design class. The way I...

Bernarda Alba opened a couple of weeks ago and it was so wonderful to be back in the theatre. The content is challenging, but the...

I'm delighted to be immersed in the process of designing Bernarda Alba, musical by Michael John LaChiusa based on the Lorca play. While...

It’s hard to believe another school year is about to start. I want to get back to writing about process after sharing some news: After 1...

This weekend was a gift. After a semester with a very heavy administrative lift and not enough art I volunteered to be backstage to help...

The craziest thing happened this week that was such a delightful surprise. A little back story: At the beginning of the pandemic, the...

Things I've missed: the power of the 5 minute check-in & in person meetings. How much subtler communication and community building has...

Classroom shift to process, not result. A partner to the previous “Deadline” post. So much of my own education involved projects with a...

Hard to write a couple of times a month when burn-out is high, the sands are shifting, and we are just so damned tired of this pandemic....

We had such a good time building a community of costume educators last, we decided to have another workshop this year! In this year's...