I spend my time happily studying and teaching about the works of Stephen Sondheim. I facilitate the international online “Sondheim Study Group,” and teach about Sondheim regularly for in a number of university-based educational settings. I’ve supported the Pasadena Playhouse and The Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s productions of Sondheim musicals with pre- and post-performance lectures; I was a guest instructor for San Diego State University MFA in Musical Theatre program; and I was a panelist at the 2023 BroadwayCon session: “I Know Things Now: Remembering Stephen Sondheim.” I interviewed Sondheim collaborator John Weidman at BroadwayCon in 2025 and co-facilitated the Pacific Overtures 50th Anniversary Roundtable featuring book writer John Weidman and actors BD Wong and Francis Jue. I hold an MA in Performance Studies from New York University and a BA in Drama from The University of California at Berkeley.
Personal Statement
In 2021, shortly before he died at the age of 91, I wrote to Stephen Sondheim, telling him of my various teaching activities, and thanking him for “creating a body of work so rich, so multifaceted, so challenging and soulful, so glorious, that I could study it with the same seriousness of purpose that I currently have, and never feel that I have completed by work.” He replied thanking me for “spreading the gospel.” Those who know Sondheim can appreciate this tongue-in-cheek response. But nevertheless, it has become a bit of a touchstone. My days are spent joyously chasing the question “What Makes Sondheim Great?,” and sharing my insights with others. If you love Sondheim, or want to understand him better, please join me and other curious people for an introduction to the person many declare the greatest musical theatre songwriter of a generation.
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