Teaching Areas include:
Musical Theater and Musical Cinema
World Theatre History
Queer, Feminist, and Transgender Theory and Historiography*
Performance Studies
Dramatic Literature
Medical and Legal Humanities
HIV/AIDS Activism and Cultural Production
Circus Studies
Directing, Devising, Acting, and Research-Based Performance Methods
*Co-recipient of Stanford University’s Diane Middlebrook Graduate Teaching Prize for Feminist Pedagogy with co-instructor Namrata Verghese, for the course, “Introduction to Queer Theory.”
Sample syllabi available upon request.
In Fall 2025, I served as instructor-of-record for Stanford’s mainstage production of Fun Home, which I directed and choreographed. A “behind-the-scenes” video is available here:
Photo from Fun Home rehearsals at Stanford. Picture by Stefani Midori Okuda