Curriculum Vitae
Education
Graduate Certificate
Social Media, Program
Seneca College, 2021
B.A. Hons.
Theatre and Performance, Major
University of Waterloo, 2019
Arts Experience
Global Engagement Program Coordinator | Waterloo, ON | December 2023 - Present
Work with the Academic Program Director and in line with program milestones in initiating the strategic planning of all aspects of the Seminar and ancillary activities
Develop and coordinate the program budget, including the development of the Seminar’s strategic positioning and planning for the annual Seminar Summit
Create and implement content strategies to guide digital and content marketing and communications design including the development of the Seminar’s positioning, identity framework, and key messaging across communication channels in collaboration with the Dean of Arts staff
Collaborate with academic and staff partners across campus for the purpose of building brand, recruiting students, and coordinating academic course requirements
Manage and support the Seminar’s Advisory Council, Steering Committee, and Fellows
WOOMcollaborative
Co-Founder & Digital Manager | Waterloo, ON | 2020 - Present
The WOOMcollaborative is a Waterloo Region multidisciplinary arts incubator, serving as a research and development hub for the Kitchener-Waterloo cultural sector by providing space, subsidy, and mentorship to new generations of performance creators. The WOOMcollaborative’s mission is to nurture artists, invest in ideas, and support new work and new ways of working. The collaborative fosters a culture of innovation by embracing risk and questioning traditional notions of artistic practice, disciplinary boundaries, and notions of what constitutes growth and success.
Logistics Coordinator and Production Stage Manager | Waterloo, ON | July 2023 - November 2023
Supervision and accompaniment of team members in prioritizing tasks, clarifying communication, and updating live documents and internal communication
Scheduling team events, meetings, recording minutes, sending reports, and capturing processes and policies for manuals and final report for the Festival
Assisting Hospitality department for budgeting IMPACT merchandise and scheduling and packing the orders for international, national, and local performers
Scheduling and booking rehearsals and working with the creative team in developing workshop production of There Are No Gays in Chechneya, scheduling and managing billeting for performers, calling the performance, prepping show reports
Outreach and Program Coordinator | St.Catharines, ON | May - August 2022
Assisted with general administrative, marketing and event coordination tasks in relation to all summer programs including In the Soil Arts Festival, The Nest Artist Residency showcase and Electric Innovations
Collaborated on social media created content, photography, video filming and editing
Participated in digital filing, organization of digital data, dissemination and reporting of audience, artist and participant feedback surveys, newsletters through mailchimp
Assisted in organizing, scheduling and training of event volunteers and set up and tear down for summer events and programs
Attended and participate in staff meetings; project and production meetings; forums; and specific one-on-one mentorship meetings
Box Office/Sales Representative | Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON | March - May 2022
Answered phone calls as a representative for Shaw Festival for patrons and prospects purchasing theater and event tickets or require assistance navigating the website
Utilized CRM system Tessitura for B.O ticket ordering, editing patron accounts, creating CSIs, processing donations, and creating accounts with new patrons over the phone
Administrative Assistant | Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON | Nov. 2021 - March 2022
Reported to the Associate Director, Development and work closely with all Development department staff. This position is responsible for providing a wide range of service support for the Development Department in:
Assisted with seating maps for patrons who have purchased tickets but require seating;
Assisted with the provision of service and hospitality to donors during intermission – Members Terrace and/or the Governors Council Lounge;
Assisted with Seat Notes and associated tracking reports;
Maintained and updating donor records and gift processing in Tessitura;
Provided administrative support to the Associate Director of Development, including assisting with general department correspondence
UpStart 2020 - Bitter/Sweet Fools
Rehearsal Stage Manager | University of Waterloo | Waterloo, ON | 2020
Independently reported on rehearsal process during production meetings and ran rehearsals weekly, including setup and tear down of the set
Compiled production book and forwarded daily schedules and rehearsal notes
Scheduled coaches and academic supervisors in rehearsals as requested
Maintained a supportive working relationship and consistent communication with fellow Stage Managers and Production Manager throughout Festival development
Mt Space - IMPACT 2019
Production Assistant | MT Space | Waterloo, ON| 2019
Managed meeting minutes during weekly check-ins with MT Space members
Re-developed working document of the Front of House Manual and independently compiled technical rider spreadsheet for each venue
Responsible for driving UHauls for pick up/delivery of set pieces for performances in the Festival as requested by the Production Manager
Hysteria: Do You Have A Crush On Me?
Performance Artist | University of Waterloo | Waterloo, ON | 2018
This work was originally explored in a Theatre and Performance course at the University of Waterloo. The second iteration of this work was presented through a performance series titled ‘Hysteria’ in 2018, which showcased female-aligned works unpacking how toxic relationships can shape a woman, and what it means to reveal these realities as a form of catharsis.
University of Waterloo Fine Arts Department - Student Art Innovation Lab (S.A.I.L)
S.A.I.L Instructor | University of Waterloo | Waterloo, ON | 2017
Promoted art and performance in the Kitchener/Waterloo region
Facilitated an engaging learning environment with children ages 6-18 through workshops done in an airstream trailer
Planned and developed artistic/performative workshops
The Mush Hole Project: Sub-Merge
Collaborative Devisor | Mohawk Institute | Brantford, ON | 2016
A multi-media, site-specific art installation made in response to the TRC’s 94 recommendations addressing the residential school legacy, and in support of the Save the Evidence campaign at the Woodland Cultural Centre, the site of the former Mohawk Institute. Read more on Sub-Merge.
Health Services Presents Single & Sexy
Dramaturge | University of Waterloo | Waterloo, ON | 2016-2017
Single & Sexy, a staple production during UWaterloo’s annual Orientation Week to educate the student body on campus living and sexual wellness, received an script overhaul within a senior theatre and performance class. Preceding this class, I worked alongside Dr. Toby Malone to complete and refine the newly developed script before production. For the summer of 2016 and 2017, my contribution to this work was a mixture of research and new play development, working with various services within the University to ensure the information revealed in the production reflected contemporary facts and ideation. Throughout the rehearsal process, I worked alongside the director(s) of these iterations as well as the performers to update and edit the script.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant
THST*1040*01: Introduction to Theatre and Performance
Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2019
Corresponded with students queries or concerns regarding course material
Ensured regular availability for student’s needs
Marked essays, assignments and ran weekly workshops in-class
ENGL*2090*01: Studies in Shakespeare
Jan.2020 - April 2020
Spearheaded marking essays and assignments
Guided students through assignments and written work during office hours
Presented Research
CATR 2019 : Circles of Conversation in Drama, Dance, Theatre, and Performance Studies
University of British Columbia | Vancouver, BC | 2019
Revealing Our Unconscious Complicity in Rape Culture: The making of Unconscious Curriculum and the Arresting Rape Culture project at the University of Waterloo
by Brooke Barnes & Andrew Houston
UWaterloo Conference 2024: From Targeting in Academia to Promoting Trust and Understanding
University of Waterloo | Waterloo, ON | 2024
Revealing Our Unconscious Complicity in Rape Culture and Earning Trust Through Collaboration: The Making of Unconscious Curriculum at the University of Waterloo
by Brooke Barnes & Andrew Houston
Volunteer Contributions
Button Factory Arts
Board Member | Secretary | Waterloo, Ontario | August 2021 - April 2022
Student Theatre and Performance Experience
University of Waterloo - Theatre and Performance Program (2014-2019)
welcome to the tree museum
Associate Director, Dramaturge | 2019
welcome to the tree museum was a multimedia performance, featuring a lumberjack choir, set in a world (much like our own) that is racing towards ecological disaster. The always-exceptional Brash children – Hazy, Queenie, Thunder and Toot - grew up knowing they were the generation that would save the world. Years later, when the siblings are brought together by a wedding and illness, they are forced to confront the impending death of the woodland where they spent their childhood. How do we mend the severed connection to family and the environment? The development of this performance as a complex musical complimenting two different realms—the realm of lumberjack fairytale and the one of our dying planet—was co-directed between Dr. Andy Houston and me. The cumulation of my undgraduate experience led to this performance becoming my capstone in my final year.
Read more about welcome to the tree museum.
TomorrowLove™
Dramaturge | 2018
TomorrowLove™, written by Rosamund Small, was preformed by the University of Waterloo’s Theatre and Performance Program in 2018 and supported dramaturgically through the Engagement Space, titled The Reveal Room™. Here, audience members were invited to experience seven installations, some explicitly interactive, thus helping to enhance, refine, and question the meaning of TomorrowLove™. TomorrowLove™ and The Reveal Room™ dealt with Martin Heidegger’s concept of technē, or technology and its capacity to reveal. This essay reflects on the end-product of the dramaturgy team’s contextual creation of The Reveal Room™ demonstrated through audience interaction and feedback, focusing on the installation I created, ‘The Cessation of Cell Phones™’.
Read more about TomorrowLove™.
The Game of String
Director, Dramaturge | 2018
The Upstart Festival is a juried student performance festival produced by the Theatre and Performance program at the University of Waterloo. Written, directed and performed by students, the The Game of String is part of the festival alongside Hopscotch and Hamlet Reworked. The Game of String explores the relationship between how we curate ourselves on social media and who we truly are in reality. In the digital world, we find ourselves in competition with others. When we die, is the digital persona we left behind authentic to who we really are?
Read more about The Game of String.
Unconscious Curriculum: Arresting Rape Culture on Campus
Performer/Devisor | 2017
Unconscious Curriculum – Rape Culture on Campus (UC), was a 2016 student performance project that interrogated issues in rape culture and the normalization of sexual violence. The project required students and facilitators alike to define healthy boundaries, embrace diverse voices, and interact with an awareness of compassion. Student-performers were tasked with the roles of being devisors, researchers, and activists, while their emotional connection to issues of rape culture were either being re-visited or introduced to their lived experiences for the first time.
Read more about Unconscious Curriculum.
Eurydice
Assistant Stage Manager of Wardrobe | 2017
Sarah Ruhl re-creates the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice featuring an elevator that rains, water that sings, stones who talk and a house made out of string. The responsibility of the stage manager of wardrobe was one of scheduling and paperwork all in the name of evocative outfits and seamless costume changes.
Read more about Eurydice.
Unity (1918)
Performer | 2015
UNITY (1918), written by Kevin Kerr, offers a moving and revealing examination of what happens when a deadly virus arrives in a town in the middle of Saskatchewan that was thought to be safe – too distant, too remote – from an epidemic devastating populations elsewhere. Canadians tend to assume such tragedies happen elsewhere, to other people. In the role of Ardell—a woman who crosses over to the other side through giving birth—UWaterloo’s iteration of this work explored the evocative nature of what it means to die, and how we support one another through the heavy weight of a pandemic in this world and what comes after.
Read more about Unity (1918).