Education

As a teacher of theatre, music, and movement I focus on empowering children to honor their creative ideas and to lean into imaginative play through song, dance, and dramatic games. I enjoy incorporating various mediums in the classroom and coming up with unique stories for children to present to a supportive audience of loved ones.

I am Music Together certified and spent a year teaching classes for children ages 0-5 and their grown-ups in San Francisco. In these classes, I led families through song and dance with movement, instruments, props, and visual illustrations.

I am currently in my third year of teaching theatre and creative ballet classes at a children’s theatre in San Francisco, where I work with children ages 2.5 - 12. This space is dedicated to creative exploration through imaginative play, using a variety of tools— costumes, music, dance, crafts, storybooks, masks, and puppets! I enjoy pulling from this toolkit to create special classes that resonate with the particular group of kiddos I have in a given session. Many of the classes I teach culminate in a performance or play heavily inspired by the children who are participating. For these, I often create set pieces out of cardboard and other post-consumer materials for the kids to decorate. I also direct many of these shows and sometimes write original songs for them to perform live.

In addition, I have experience teaching this curriculum at various elementary schools in San Francisco, both public and private.