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Curriculum Vitae

SCREENINGS + INSTALLATIONS

Bananas et Josephine, digital, moving image installation

Millennium Film, Exquisite Corpse, curated by Abigai Peña + Jay Reiner, 2025

In Tandem Pt. II: The Planet Egg, short film

The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, An Egg in a Dream in a Landscape: Pratt Institute Film/Video Faculty & Staff Exhibition, 2024

The Donald and Shelley Rubin 8th Floor Gallery, Sight/Geist: Reproducible Intimacy, 2023

Cosmic Rays Experimental Film Festival, 2023

Maybe I Is You, sound installation with moving image

The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery, An Egg in a Dream in a Landscape: Pratt Institute Film/Video Faculty & Staff Exhibition, 2024

Power Plant Gallery, In Relation To exhibition, 2023

In Tandem Pt. I: Lumen Aborts Bulb, short film

UnionDocs Live/Work-in-Progress Residency, 2023

Binaural Elephant, sound installation with moving image

Duke Arts, Meshroom, 2024

Rubenstein Arts Center Interventions exhibition, 2022

And so she works from home… as does she, 16mm short film, dual projection diptych

MONO NO AWARE XVI Festival of Cinema Arts, 2022

Duke Independent Film Festival, 2023

Don’t Dream, audio play with moving image

On Air Festival Official Selection, 2021

A Wind Blows from the South, sounds installation + dance score

Third Coast International Audio Festival, 2020

Cleveland Public Theatre, 2017

Station Hope: A Conversation, short film

Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, 2019

43rd Cleveland International Film Festival, 2019

Mandala, short film, Duke University Cinema Arts Curated Screening, 2022

Her Poems, short film, Case Western University Alumni Association, 2018

What Remains, short film

Cleveland Public Theatre Station Hope, 2019 + 2018

Arts Cleveland Creative Workforce Fellowship, 2017

Hysterical, 16mm, short film

Bohemia National Hall, Czech Center New York, 2015

Reinberger Gallery Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Exhibit, 2015

Falling in the Night, 16mm, short film, NYU Tisch First Run Film Festival, 2000

PLAYWRIGHT

A Tale of Three Heads, Cleveland Playwrights Festival, 2017

 A King and His Goat, KSVR 91.7 FM, 2015

 A Tale of Three Heads, Rita & Burton Goldberg Theater New York, 2013

 Fail, Cleveland Public Theater AtTENtion Span, 2012

 The Fable of the Forest Court, WIX Lounge New York, 2012

Dating Godfrey, Cleveland Public Theater Little Boxes Play Series, 2010

AUDIOBOOK DIRECTOR

Over 300 titles for Penguin Random House Audio, Hachette Audio, HarperAudio and Podium including the following:

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, by Rebecca Hall and Tyler English-Beckwith read by DeWanda Wise, Chanté Adams, Jerrie Johnson, Bahni Turpin, and more, AudioFile Earphones Award, 2022, APA Audie Award Finalist, 2023

Build Your House Around My Body, by Violet Kupersmith read by Quyen Ngo, 2021

1619 Project: A New Origin Story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The NY Times read by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ibram X. Kendi, Jasmine Mans, Yusef Komunyakaa, Claudia Rankin, Camille T. Dungy and more, AudioFile Earphones Award, 2021, APA Audie Award Finalist 2023

Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead, read by Dion Graham, AudioFile Earphones Award 2021

Invisible Child, by Andrea Elliot, read by Adenrele Ojo, 2021

Never: A Novel by Ken Follett read by January LaVoy, AudioFile Earphones Award 2021

Cry Back My Sea by Sarah Arvio, 2021

The Prophets, by Robert Jones Jr. read by Karen Chilton, AudioFile Earphones Award 2021

Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans, 2021

Antkind, by Charlie Kaufman, read by Fred Berman, 2020

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha N. Blain, read by Keith David, Phylicia Rashad, January LaVoy, Dion Graham, Shayna Small, Bill Quinn and more, AudioFile Earphones Award 2020

Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson, read by Jacqueline Woodson, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Peter Francis James, Shayna Small, and Bahni Turpin, APA Audie Award Finalist 2020

Dear Justyce by Nic Stone, read by Dion Graham, YALSA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults 2020

145th Street: Short Stories by Walter Dean Myers, read by Heather Alicia Simms, Bahni Turpin, Dominic Hoffman, Adenrele Ojo, Johnny Heller, Sullivan Jones, Almarie Guerra and Brandon Gill, YALSA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults 2019

A Time to Dance, by Padma Venkatraman reading by the author, YALSA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults 2019

My Sister (How One Siblings Transition Changed Us Both), by Selena Leyva and Marisol Leyva, 2020

Open Cityanniversary edition by Teju Cole, read by the author, 2020

How to Be an Antiracistby Ibram X. Kendi, read by the author, 2019

Taína by Ernesto Quiñonez, read by Daniel José Molina, AudioFile Earphones Award 2019

Let’s Go Swimming on Doomsday, by Natalie C. Anderson, read by Kevin R. Free, AudioFile Earphones Award 2019

Naamah, by Sarah Blake, read by Shayna Small, O, The Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2019

The Journey of Little Charlie, by Christopher Paul Curtis , read by Michael Crouch, Association for Library Services for Children Notable Children’s Recording 2019

You Are Free, by Danzy Sansa, selection read by January LaVoy, AudioFile Earphones Award 2018

You Bring the Distant Near, by Mitali Perkins, read by Sneha Mathan, Shivali Bhammer, Priya Ayyar, N’Jameh Camara, Zehra Jane Naqvi, APA Audie Award Finalist 2018

My Sister the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite read by Adepero Oduye, 2018

Immigrant Montana, by Amitava Kuma, read by the author, 2018

Quicksand, by Malin Persson Giolito, read by Saakia Maarleveld, AudioFile Earphones Award 2017

Dear Martin, By Nic Stone, read by Dion Graham, AudioFile Earphones Award, 2017, YALSA Amazing Audiobook for Young Adults 2019

We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, read by the author, 2017

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3, by Rick Riordan read by Michael Crouch, AudioFile Best Audiobooks of the Year 2017

Big Cats: Stories by Holiday Reinhorn, read by Lili Taylor, Virginia Madsen, Patricia Arquette and more, 2016

FACULTY + TEACHING ARTIST

Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, 2019 – present

Teaching Artist, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2021

Artistic and Documentation Associate for the Stargate Theatre Company, Manhattan Theater Club, 2016 – 2020

Adjunct Faculty, Cleveland Institute of Art, 2016 – 2019

Teaching Artist, Center of Arts Inspired Learning, 2015

Adjunct Faculty, Cuyahoga Community College, 2011 – 2015

FILM, TV + AUDIO PRODUCTION

Producer & Sound Designer, Reverberations, American Slavery Project, 2020

Producer & Sound Designer, Black Woman and the Ballot, American Slavery Project, 2020

Producer & Director, Station Hope: A Conversation, Cleveland Public Theatre, 2019

Producer & Director, Plate Up! Cuyahoga Community College, 2015

Writers’ Assistant, As the World Turns CBS, 2005 – 2007

Production Coordinator & Researcher, Between the Lions, PBS, 2005

Production Coordinator, Biography, American Justice & Bio Extra A&E Networks, 2004 – 2005

Production Coordinator, Chappelle’s Show Comedy Central, 2003 – 2004

Production Office Coordinator, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn Comedy Central, 2002 – 2003

Production Coordinator, GAP and Cover Girl, 2002

Production Assistant, Reading Rainbow PBS, 2001 – 2002

Apprentice Editor, 25th Hour by Spike Lee, Touchtone Pictures, 2002

Postproduction Assistant, Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America by Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen, VH-1, 2001

Postproduction Coordinator, New York: A Documentary Film by Ric Burns PBS, 2000

Postproduction Logger & Digitizer, Blue Vinyl by Judith Helfand HBO Documentary, 1999 – 2000

HONORS + AWARDS

Award for Best Editing, “And so she works from home… as does she,” Duke University Independent Film Festival, 2023

Best Documentary, “In Tandem Pt. II: The Planet Egg, Experimental Film & Music Video Festival in Toronto, 2023

Flaherty Film Seminar Fellow, Duke University, 2022

Dean Research Award, Duke University, 2021 + 2022

David and Elizabeth Roderick Scholarship, Duke University MFA EDA, 2021

Creative Workforce Fellowship Grant, Arts Cleveland, 2016

Teaching Artist Grant, Center for Arts Inspired Learning, 2015

Ralph M. Bessie Excellence in Teaching Nominee, Cuyahoga Community College, 2013

Tisch NYU Alumni Microgrant Recipient, New York University Tisch School of the Arts , 2013 + 2012

Writing Fellowship Workshop Grantee, Nickelodeon, 2008

Writing Fellow, CBS & Televest Daytime Drama, 2005 + 2007

NYU Tisch Dean Cinematography Craft Award, Writer/Director, “Falling in the Night,” Tisch First Run FIlm Festival, 2000

Martin Scorsese Film Post-Production Grant, Writer/Director, “Falling in the Night,” NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 1999

Tisch Film Production Grant, Writer/Director, “Falling in the Night,” NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 1999

Director & Cinematography Award, “Hysteria” Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze, 1998

20th Century Fox, Benjamin L. Hooks Scholarship, 1996-1999

EDUCATION

Duke University, MFA in Experimental + Documentary Arts, 2023

Filmová a televizní fakulta Akademie múzických umění v Praze in the Czech Republic, study abroad 1998

New York University, BFA Tisch School of the Arts, Kanbar Film Institute of Film + Television, 2000