Summary
Accomplished Sign Language Interpreter with National certification and specialized training in theatrical interpreting. Experienced in community and educational settins, and adjunct faculty in an interpreter training program.
Performance Interpreting
TAP/TDF & Juilliard Evening Division "Interpreting for the Theatre Intensive", NYC, NY, June 2001
"RENT" - TDF Project Production
Portland Center Stage:
"Man and Superman"
"True West"
"Flesh and Blood"
"A Christmas Carol" ('00 & '01)
"The Cripple of Inishmaan"
"Bus Stop"
"The Old Settler"
Portland State University
"The Hostage"
"Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet"
"Arcadia"
"All in the Timing"
"Playboy of the Western World"
"Death of a Salesman"
"The Cherry Orchard"
"The Good Times are Killing Me"
"She Stoops to Conquer"
"Three Penny Opera"
Portland Community College
"The Diviners"
"The Man Who Came to Dinner"
"Cabaret"
"The Vagina Monologues"
"Children of a Lesser God"
"Private Eyes"
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
"Into the Woods"
"The Diary of Anne Frank"
"Guys and Dolls"
"Equus"
"The Crucible"
"Three Sisters"
Other Productions
"Much Ado About Nothing" - Cleveland High School
"The Dining Room" - Westview High School
"Scapin" - Radiant Theatre Productions
"One" - InsightOut Productions
"Hair" - Radiant Theatre Productions
"Les Miserables" HS Edition - Evergreen High School
"Les Miserables" HS Edition - Westview High School
"Little Shop of Horrors" -- On The Spot Productions
"Tom Sawyer" -- Oregon Children's Theatre
"No Mercy" -- Theater!Theater!
(Profile Theatre Project)
"One Day Earlier" -- Theater!Theater!
(Profile Theatre Project)
Rabbi Joe Black Children's Concert -- MJCC
"Marge & Ilene" Children's Concert -- MJCC
"Ramona Quimby" -- Oregon Children's Theatre
"Lady Buddha" -- IFCC/MediaRites
"To Kill A Mockingbird" -- NW Children's Theate
(role of Courtroom ASL Interpreter)
Northwest Theatre of the Deaf (non-interpreting experience)
"Poor Defenseless Creature" from The Good Doctor
-Voice Actor (Summer 2000)
"The Cat and the Canary" - Co-Director
"The Miser" - Stage Manager/Assistant Director
Deaf Star Search
Board of Directors and committee member (1996-1999)
Interpreting Education and Certification
Received Certificate of Transliteration from the National Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.
Received Certificate of Interpretation from the National Registry of
Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc.
Member of RID, Inc.
Member of Oregon RID
Member of National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
Member of Oregon Association of the Deaf
Member of Washington State RID
Graduate of PCC Sign Language Interpretation Program
-included theatrical interpreting internship for NWCT's "The
Secret Garden"
Other Theatrical Experience
Theatre Companies: Portland Women's Theater Company, Pentacle Theater, Salem Theatre of Performing Arts, and First A.C.T. (child abuse prevention drama troupe).
Specific Involvement: Stage Manager, Lighting Operator, Director, Assistant Director, Set Construction, Lighting Design, Make-up, Orchestra Member, Production Set Crew, Properties Manager, House Manager, and occasional Actor.
Plays include: "Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd"; "Alice in Wonderland"; "The Wizard of Oz"; "The House at Pooh Corner"; "Oliver"; "Carousel"; "Blithe Spirit"; "Our Town"; "Chapter Two"; "Same Time, Next Year"; "Veronica's Room"; "The Lady's Not for Burning"; "Sugar"; "Anything Goes"; "Dial M for Murder"; "James Thurber's Carnival"; "Not Without My Daughter"; "The Doris Day Years"; "Last Summer at Bluefish Cove"; "Marvin's Room"; "Fiddler on the Roof"; "Oklahoma"; "Glass Menagerie"; "Harvey".
