FACULTY & TEACHING ARTIST
Teaching Artist, New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2021 – present
Visiting Instructor, Pratt Institute, 2019 – present
Artistic and Documentation Associate for the Stargate Theatre Company, Manhattan Theater Club, 2016 – present
Adjunct Faculty, Cleveland Institute of Art, 2016 – 2019
Teaching Artist, Center of Arts Inspired Learning, 2015
Adjunct Faculty, Cuyahoga Community College, 2011 – 2015
AUDIOBOOK DIRECTOR
Over 100 titles for Penguin Random House Audio and Hachette Audio including the following
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts, by Rebecca Hall and Tyler English-Beckwith read by DeWanda Wise, Chante Adams, Jerrie Johnson, Bahni Turpin, and more, AudioFile Earphones Award, 2022
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
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 City, anniversary edition by Teju Cole, read by the author, 2020
How to Be an Antiracist, by 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 Nikki 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 Reinhorm, read by Lili Taylor, Virginia Madsen, Patricia Arquette and more, 2016
FILM SCREENINGS
Don’t Dream, On Air Festival Official Selection, 2021
A Wind Blows from the South, Third Coast International Audio Festival, 2020
Station Hope: A Conversation, Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, 2019
Station Hope: A Conversation, 43rd Cleveland International Film Festival, 2019
Her Poems, Case Western University Alumni Association, 2018
What Remains, Cleveland Public Theatre Station Hope, 2019 & 2018
Freedom Runners, Arts Cleveland Creative Workforce Fellowship, 2017
A Wind Blows from the South, Cleveland Public Theatre Station Hope, 2017
Hysterical, 16mm, Bohemia National Hall, Czech Center New York, 2015
Hysterical, 16mm, Reinberger Gallery Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Exhibit, 2015
THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
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
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 and 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
Duke University, Flaherty Fellow, 2022
Duke University, Dean Research Award, 2021
Arts Cleveland, Creative Workforce Fellowship Grant, 2016
Center for Arts Inspired Learning, Teaching Artist Grant, 2015
Ralph M. Bessie, Excellence in Teaching Nominee, 2013
Tisch NYU Alumni, Microgrant Recipient, 2013 & 2012
Nickelodeon, Writing Fellowship Workshop Grantee, 2008
CBS & Televest Daytime Drama, Writing Fellow, 2005 & 2007
NYU Tisch Dean Craft Award, at the NYU Film Festival, Writer/Director, “Falling in the Night,” 2000
Martin Scorsese Film Post-Production Grant, Writer/Director, “Falling in the Night,” 1999
Tisch Film Production Grant, Writer/Director, “Falling in the Night,” 1999
Director & Cinematography Award, “Beneath the Surface” Charles University, 1998
20th Century Fox, Benjamin L. Hooks Scholarship, 1996-1999
Education
Duke University, MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts 2021-2023
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, B.F.A. 1996-1999
Charles University, Film School of the Academy of Performing Arts in the Czech Republic 1998
Emory University, in Atlanta Georgia 1998
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