She is the Associate Artistic Director of the Nevada Conservatory Theatre and has worked as a dramaturg at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Classic Stage Company, and eight seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where she was the Literary Assistant from 2004 to 2009. Her articles and book reviews appear in Shakespeare Bulletin, Theatre History Studies, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre Survey, and Theatre Annual and the book projects Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom and Performing Objects and Theatrical Things. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington, a M.A. from The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK, and a B.A. from Whitman College.