She is the recipient of the Alliance for Colorado Theatre’s 2011 Higher Education Theatre Educator of the Year Award and chaired the 2014 American Alliance for Theatre and Education national conference. Her writing has been published in Stage of the Art, Incite/Insight, and Theatre for Young Audiences Today. She has essays published in the books Signs of Change: New Directions in Theatre Education and The Reflexive Teaching Artist. Gillian presented papers on the connection between youth, theatre and community in Australia, Sweden, Mexico and Poland. She currently serves on the board of TYA (Theatre for Young Audiences) USA. A proud Longhorn, she holds an MFA. in Drama and Theatre for Youth from The University of Texas at Austin and a BFA. in Acting from Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts.