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• My directing style has evolved through the integration of my formal training, my post-graduate study of Grotowski, Stanislavski, and Brecht, and my 38 years experience in the theater.

“Waiting For Godot”, by Samuel Beckett at the Studio Theatre, Long Beach Playhouse – Long Beach, CA.
“Side Man”, by Warren Leight at the Studio Theatre, Long Beach Playhouse – Long Beach, CA.
“Wait Until Dark”, by Frederick Knott at the Studio Theatre, Long Beach  Playhouse – Long Beach, CA.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”, by Dale Wasserman at the Huntington Beach Playhouse - Huntington Beach, CA.
“Play On!”, by Rick Abbot at the Main Stage, Long Beach Playhouse – Long Beach, CA.
“The Butler Did it”, by Tim Kelly at the Main Stage, Long Beach Playhouse – Long Beach, CA.
“Let Him Sleep Till It’s Time for his Funeral”, by Peg Kehret, at the Huntington Beach Playhouse – Huntington Beach, CA. 
“Some of my Best Friends”, by Stanley Hart, at the Bellflower Civic Theatre – Bellflower, CA.
“Arsenic and Old Lace”, by Joseph Kesselring, at the Cypress Civic Theatre – Cypress, CA.
“Chippy”, by R.K. Narayan, at the Gallery Theatre Barnsdall – Los Angeles, CA.
 “The House of Bernarda Alba”, by Garcia Lorca, at the Macunaima Theatre – São Paulo, Brazil.
 “By a Hair”, by Carl daSilva, at the Dulcina Theatre – Brasilia D.F., Brazil.
“It Had To Be This Way”, by Irene Carvalho, on National Tour – Brazil.
“The Good Doctor”, by Neil Simon, at the American Embassy in Brasilia D.F., Brazil.
“Miracle Worker”, by William Gibson, at the American Embassy in Brasilia D.F., Brazil.
“Classic Playwrights”, a TV series produced by Brazil’s National Public Network, where each episode discussed a different playwright.        Directed:  “The Boar” and “The Marriage Proposal”, by Anton Chekhov, and scenes from “A Streetcar Named Desire”, by Tennessee Williams, “Death of a Salesman”, and “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, and “Joan of Arc”, by Bernard Shaw.

1986-1989 – Dean of the Macunaima Theatre School in São Paulo, Brazil, the largest theatre school in the country.  Responsibilities included all non-financial matters such as curriculum, faculty, staff, training teachers, classes offered and schedules, as well as teaching acting and directing classes and directing school productions.
1984-1986 – Head of the Drama Department of the Brazilian Foundation University in Brasilia, Brazil.  An elected position, my responsibilities included the curriculum, the faculty, teaching college level acting and directing classes, and directing school productions.

1977 -1981 – B.F.A. in Theatre from the Goodman School of Drama/De Paul University -Chicago, Il.

•  1987 – “Le Siecle Stanislavski”, a weeklong symposium celebrating 50 years of Stanislavski’s death.  A series of lectures and seminars led by top theatre professionals, such as Stella Adler, Sidney Pollack, and Robert Lewis.  Paris, France.
• 1987 – “Late Stanislavski, Early Grotowski”, a directing workshop with famous Brazilian theatre director, Celso Nunes.  São Paulo, Brazil.
• 1989 – “Practical Workshop in Directing Film”, a UCLA Extension class taught by Ernest Pintoff.  Los Angeles, CA.

Long Beach Playhouse Ethel Case Award for best play of 2007 – Play On!
Brazilian National Playwright Award for Excellence for the original script “Cruzeiro do Sul” (Southern Cross), staged in Ouro Preto’s National Theatre Festival.  Brazil, 1986.