E. Performances and Presentations

Recent Acting/Devising Performances in Staged Readings or Independent Film:

  • Deep, Dark Nurse, Bucknell University Film Department 2018
  • Clearing the Mind, Mary,  MATC Conference 2016, Minneapolis
  • Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow Book Club, White Person  #3, MATC Conference 2016, Minneapolis
  • The Missing Link, The Mermaid/Helene, ATHE Conference 2014, Scotsdale
  • My Life as a Circus Baby, June, ATHE Conference 2013, Orlando
  • Adoration of Dora, ‘Dora Maar’, ATHE Conference 2012, DC
  • Square Peg, Round Hole Workshop I, Merry Barua, Ens.,Tectonic Theatre Project, NYC 2012
  • Square Peg, Round Hole Workshop II, Merry Barua, Ens., Tectonic Theatre Project, Bucknell 2012
  • Square Peg, Round Hole Workshop III, Merry Barua, Tyann, Ens.,Tectonic Theatre Project, UNI/Iowa 2013
  • Square Peg, Round Hole Workshop IV, Merry Barua, Tyann, Ens.,Tectonic Theatre Project, Geisinger Hospital/Bucknell 2013
  • American Family, Anjalee, East West Company, The Space – Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011.
  • American Family, Anjalee, East West Company, Bucknell University Workshop 2010.

Presentations and Panels:

  • Invited Panelist, ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Undergraduates Actors of Color’ at Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2018.
  • Invited Panelist, ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Undergraduates Actors of Color’ at Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2017.
  • Chaired panel on Actors of Color in Undergraduate Programs’ at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at Montclair State University; 2018.
  • Chaired panel on Actors of Color in Undergraduate Programs’ at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at Montclair State University; 2017.
  • Chaired panel on Working Actors of Color’ at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival at Montclair State University; 2017.
  • Chaired panel on ‘Black Performance and Training’ at the African American Arts: Activism and Aesthetics  at Bucknell University 2016.
  • Invited panelist for Panel titled ‘Bodies at Work; Interdisciplinary Devising in the Liberal Arts, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2016.
  • Presented a Digital Poster Presentation entitled ‘Making the Process Public: Collaboration, Performance Pedagogy and the Digital Director’s Book’ at Bucknell University’s Digital Scholarship Conference 2015.
  • Coordinator and Panelist for Panel titled ‘Troubleshooting the Dream; Sharing Ways to Help Devised Productions Work in the Liberal Arts’, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2014.
  • Invited panelist for Panel titled ‘Theatre in the Wings: The Pleasure and Purpose of the Theatre Club’, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2013. Presented Paper on ‘Cap and Dagger 2.0.’
  • Coordinator and Panelist for Panel titled ‘Advancing the Form: Research and Scholarship in Devised Theatre’, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2012. Presented Paper on ‘Devising the American Family.’
  • Coordinator and Panelist for Panel titled ‘It Takes a Village: The Pleasures and Perils of Academic Parenthood’, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2012. Presented Manifesto.
  • Coordinator and Panelist for Panel titled ‘iGen Live; Performance, Pedagogy and the Millennial Generation’ Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2008.
  • Invited panelist on Panel on ‘Devising in the Classroom’, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2007.
  • Gave a Presentation entitled, ‘Navigating the Divide, comparing the Maternal and Paternal in Directing and Teaching Style’ for Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference 2006, as a part of a panel on Pedagogy for the Liberal Arts Curriculum.
  • Gave invited talk on ‘Colorblind Casting Vs. Type Casting –new paths in Academic Theatre’ for Pittsburgh University Theatre Department, Pittsburgh 2012.
  • Gave invited talk on ‘Two Boards and a Passion’ essay in MaMa, PhD; Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life for Kriti Conference; Chicago 2009.
  • Gave invited talk on ‘Two Boards and a Passion’ essay in MaMa, PhD; Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life for CSREG programing at Bucknell University, 2009.

Video Presentations:
• Presentation on ‘Devising: Pioneering Uncharted Territory in Theatre’

• Presentation on ‘Michael Chekhov Technique in the Seagull’