As a director my main goals are to play, ignite, and change.  To play is to be childlike, to create with limitless imagination and verve. To be fearless with thought and expression and to do so with anyone around me whether new or familiar, young or old, similar or dissimilar to myself. I view rehearsals as opportunities to play for hours at a time and believe that there is fun in even the most challenging and draining of rehearsals. I also believe that it is no coincidence that the final product of the art of Theatre is called a play. It is inherently entertaining, even when fiery, confusing, or sad.  To ignite is to start, share, grow, and send out. I am a passionate person. I become passionate about every project I encounter and have a deep love for igniting that same passion for my craft in those I am leading or mentoring. When I am directing actors I use dramaturgical work, cultural context, and constant discussion and dissection to keep an eternal flame under the work. Once excitement in a project is ignited it should never be allowed to go out until long after the project is done. I have a special love for igniting a love for theatre in young artists. I believe each new generation of theatre artists needs to be nurtured and shown their validity as not only players, but players within a greater context. Once passion is ignited, then skill can be taught and honed, artists can grow, and ideas and passion can be sent out into the world. Change is inherent in live theatre and I want to be at the front of it. The form itself changes constantly both on the mini and maxi levels. Every rehearsal is different,  very performance is different, and every company is different because each day brings new energy, new people, and new responses to every microscopic element of the form. On the larger, meta scale, theatre changes style and purpose with each societal change, small or large. As a director, I get to help change the world through ever-changing theatre. I want to create theatre that brings lights to people and issues that need light shone on them, either to show their benefit and worth or to show how we must move away from them societally. I want to both be a mirror to culture, and, as Brecht said so powerfully, the hammer that shapes it.