EDUCATION & TRAINING B.A. in American Studies, Urban Studies, and Theatre St. Paul, Minnesota Macalester College, 2016 Mendoza, Argentina National University of Cuyo, 2014
Ananya Dance Theatre St. Paul, Minnesota Dancer, 2016 - Present
Yin Tang Dance Company Cleveland, Ohio Dancer, 2005 - 2011
AWARDS Many Voices Mentorship, The Playwrights' Center, 2017-18 Creative Changemakers Apprenticeship, The DIAL Group 2016-17 American Studies Award for Creativity and Social Responsibility, Macalester College, 2016
ARTS ADMINISTRATION Program Assistant Patrick's Cabaret January - June 2018
Communications & Community Engagement Coordinator Pangea World Theater May 2017 - June 2018
Lake Street Arts! Program Assistant Pangea World Theater February 2016 - April 2017
Office Assistant Theatre & Dance Department, Macalester College June – August 2015
ACTING (REPRESENTATIVE ROLES) 2013-2019
Motherlanded (Gay), Director: Julia Gay, Dreamland Arts (2019) Director: Sun Mee Chomet, Pangea World Theater (2016) Role: One-woman show
Monkeybear New Puppetworks Show (Benne), Director: Benjamin Benne, Monkeybear's Harmolodic Workshop, Role: puppeteer
Sensitive Guys (Kaufman), Directors: Noel Raymond and Kat Purcell, Mixed Blood (staged reading) Role: Amy/Pete
Lightning Rod, Director: Keila Anali Saucedo, Patrick's Cabaret Role: Bel, Alien C & D, Parts, Electron
at the very bottom of a body of water (Benne), Director: Marcela Lorca, Playwright’s Center (residency & public reading) Role: Lela The Funny 2017, Directors: Akiko Ostlund and Andi Cheney with support from Jenny Moeller Raw Sugar Role: Self/Ensemble
Promise Land (conceived by Diogo Lopes, devised by the Ensemble), Directors: Isabel Nelson and Diogo Lopes Transatlantic Love Affair Role: Ensemble member
Where the Earth Meets Sky (Edyka Chilomé, Ariana Cook, and Vanessa Mercado Taylor), Director: Dipankar Mukherjee, Pangea World Theater (residency & reading) Role: Seewu/Ayah/Soldadera
green - an elegy to summer (Kreitzer), Director: Harry Waters Jr., Playwright’s Center (residency & public reading), Macalester Mainstage (full production) Role: Andromeda, Mag
Fostering Voice (devised by the Irreducible Grace Foundation ensemble), Director: Jan Mandell, Park Square Theater Role: Self/Ensemble
Vagina Monologues (Ensler), Macalester MacPlayers Role: My Angry Vagina
The Dark Room (Williams), Macalester Black Box Theater Role: Mrs. Pocciotti
Rowing to America- The Immigrant Project (Chen), Director: Mohamed Samatar, Macalester Black Box Theater Role: Girl
Hip Hop Hopes: What's Going On? (devised by the ensemble), Director: Harry Waters Jr., Macalester Mainstage Role: Self/Ensemble
DANCING 2013-2019
Shaatranga: Women Weaving Worlds (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, The O’Shaughnessy, India Habitat Centre (New Delhi, India), Pragjyoti International Dance Festival (Guwahati, India), Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), Dance Place (Washington D.C.), John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI), and Kelly Strayhorn Theater (Pittsburgh, PA) Role: Dancer/Company Member
Shyamali: Sprouting Words (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, The O’Shaughnessy, Utah Presents (Salt Lake City, UT), and Dance Center (Chicago, IL) Role: Dancer/Company Member
"Just Breathe" (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, Northern Spark 2017 Role: Dancer / Company Member
Horidraa: Golden Healing (Ananya Chatterjea), Ananya Dance Theatre, The O’Shaughnessy Role: Dancer / Apprentice
"BRINK" (Julia Gay & John Stark), Macalester College Mainstage Role: Dancer / Co-choreographer
"Comforts" (Laura Levinson), American College Dance Association: Midwest Role: Dancer
"Come Home to the Heart" (Patricia Brown), Macalester College Mainstage Role: Dancer
TEACHING & WORKSHOPS 2015-2019
Teaching Artist Stepping Stone Theatre January 2019 - Present Teaching Artist, "The Great Isla Tuliro Bake Off" Pangea World Theater April 2018
Ananya Dance Theatre Teaching Artist, Guest Artist Residency Young Dance November 2017 - May 2018
Facilitator, "Opening Plenary Program" Tri-State VISTA Conference February 2017
Facilitator, "Poetry Mural Workshop" Families with Children from Asia Midwest Conference September 2016
Facilitator, International Roundtable: "Arts Literacy: Transformative Education Through Empowering Youth Voice" Macalester College September 2015
Teaching Artist, Creative Writing Creative Arts High School January – May 2015
PLAYWRITING 2016-2019 A Slipping Joy (Gay), Director: Hayley Finn, Playwrights’ Center (public reading) Role: Playwright
motherlanded (Gay), Director: Sun Mee Chomet, Pangea World Theater Role: Playwright & Performer
STAND-UP COMEDY 2017-2019
Performed at variety shows and open mics including The Funny 2017, Mother Goose's Bedtime Stories, Vector 8, Stand-Up for RAINN, Uproar Comedy Open Mic (headliner), PSSY CTRL, Who Is She, the UNCS Comedy Showcase and the Shui Family Meal.
SERVICE ACTIVITIES Panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (Arts Learning), 2019 Panelist, Minnesota State Arts Board's (Artist Initiative Theater), 2018 Panelist, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (Community Arts), 2018