Outreach

Gun Violence: Our National Narrative – A Living Memorial (STILL/HEAR)
An interactive, community-driven exhibit that visualizes the scale and impact of gun violence across American history. Over the course of three months students performed and facilitated community story-telling to raise empathy and bring awareness to the national issue of gun violence. The students prepared and processed over 300 stories that were exhibited during the culminating event at the Mondavi Center.
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/author-addresses-american-epidemic/
https://ccbp.ucdavis.edu/still-hear
https://diversity.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk731/files/inline-files/2019%20ccbp%20tabloid%20final-web.pdf

  • The Acme Theatre Company presents “The Burials”
    Written by Caitlin Parish, directed by Emily Henderson, Veterans Memorial Theater, 203 E 14th St, Davis
    Post-show panel discussion and community story sharing lead by UCD faculty Margaret Laurena Kemp and UC Davis’s Theatre for Social Change Students follow the performance.
    January 16, 2020

  • Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
    Reading by author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    Post-reading, community story sharing led by UCD faculty Margaret Laurena Kemp and UC Davis’s Theatre for Social Change Students
    February 5, 2020

  • Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence in the U.S.
    Featuring Dean Rader, co-editor, Bullets into Bells
    Pence Gallery, 212 D St, Davis
    UC Davis Theater and Dance Students perform from the book. Community story sharing led by UCD faculty Margaret Laurena Kemp and UC Davis’s Theatre for Social Change Students followed
    February 11, 2020

  • Gun Violence: Our National Narrative – A Living Memorial
    Gary Younge – Campus Community Book Project Author's Events
    Mondavi Center
    March 2, 2020

  • Gun Violence: Still/Hear Gun Violence Our National Narrative – A Living Memorial exhibit: All day

Do Not Obey Community Voice Workshop, 2017
UC Davis Department of Theater and Dance
UC Davis Arboretum
Led students and community members in speaking voice workshops to create a space in which those participating can break their silence and be heard. Students responded to questions such as:
“Who are the seen and unseen authorities that you are obeying?”
“What are the overt or subtle languages and actions that you have been trained to obey that are part of your everyday life?”
“How does this social pressure and perception silence your language and confine your body?”
Participating women were able to honor a woman or group of women who live/have lived in silence.

Conference Presentations and Performances

ATHE 2020: Driving Towards Connection

Scores for Self-Care/Cultivating Delight
Workshop
University of California, Davis
Apr 23, 2020
This practice-based workshop explores physical approaches to cultivating delight in the present. Delight here is not so much a synonym for hope or for resolution, but a momentary opening allows us to breathe, to counter the stress and grief of the present, and to engage the 'other' ways of being that continue to persist in this world.

Voice and Speech Trainers Association 2019
Closing Keynote Speech
Featured Performance

POETICS + POLITICS 4: Against Story
Documentary Research Symposium
May 16-19th, 2019
University of California, Santa Cruz
Featured Presenter

ATHE 2017: Of Bread and Circuses
Panelist

Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) 30th Anniversary Conference, 2016
Panelist
Knight-Thompson Speechwork
Cultural Inclusion for Actor Training

American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) 2016 Conference
Featured Performance
“An Untitled Project Involving Bodies, Dirt, and Space” utilizes verbal and nonverbal utterances (summoning echoes of ancestors and descendants) and embodied explorations in a gripping interrogation of the politics of silence, space, commodification of flesh, forced migration, and intergalactic flight.
 

Committee Work

Campus Community Book Project Event Planning - 2019-20
Campus Community Book Project Selection - 2019
Department Service - Theater for Social Change Faculty Advisor - 2019-present
Department Service - Annual Alumni Award Dinner Student Performances - 2020
Department Service - Voices Reading Stories - 2017-2018
Shape - 2019-2020

Scholarship and Prizes - 2019-20
Hellman Fellowships - 2018
Scholarship and Prizes - 2016-17

Awards

Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Award – National Winner (Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Directing, Outstanding Costumes, Special Prize for Puppetry)
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region VII Nominee)
Festival Dates: Festival 51 - February 18-22, 2019
University of Oregon - Eugene

Professional Service

Fitzmaurice Voicework Creative Projects Director
Michael Chekhov International Summer Festival Faculty 2020
Fitzmaurice Voicework Certification Lead Trainer & Advisory Board
Michael Chekhov (MICHA) Faculty