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New Works Festival -- Hippodrome Theatre - March 2025
Michelle will produce and direct the fifth year of the play festival.
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CSU, Fresno -- March/April 2025
Michelle will direct Anne Carson's adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone.
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VASTA -- August 2024
During the "In/Corporate Voice" symposium she presented her research on the use of Lessac Kinesensic Body Wisdom with neurodivergent performers in somatic self-teaching during the "Neurodiversity, Kinesensics, and the Need for Compassionate Equity in Performance Training"presentation with Elizabeth Parks and Laura Pirret.
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MIchelle joins the performance theatre faculty as an Assistant Professor in Acting and Directing
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University of Florida -- March 2024
Michelle directed Meghan Brown's The Pliant Girls, a contemporary reimagining of Aeschylus' The Suppliants.
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International Somatics and Movement Education and Therapy Association -- February 2024
Michelle is now a Professional RSME with ISMETA.
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Lessac Training and Research Institute -- February 2024
Michelle is now a designated Certified Teacher with the institute.
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New Works Festival -- Hippodrome Theatre - October 2023
Michelle produced the fourth year of the play development festival.
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Hippodrome Theatre -- September 2023
Michelle played the role of Bernadette in Selina Fillingers's POTUS.
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Lessac Institute -- March/April 2023
Michelle completed her Facilitator Training in Lessac Kinesensics in Spring 2023. She is now working on completing her certification.
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Hippodrome Theatre - February 2022
Michelle directed Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spielgel for The Hipp "Unplugged" staged reading series. NPR WUFT
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New Works Festival -- Hippodrome Theatre - November 2022
Michelle produced the third year of the play development festival. The Alligator
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Hippodrome Theatre -- October 2022
Michelle played the role of Liddie in Beth Kander's Running Mates.
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Lessac Institute, Summer Intensive -- July 2022
Michelle attended the 2022 Summer Intensive to advance her training in Lessac Kinesensics Voice and Body Techniques while furthering her research on the Body NRG's. She now holds "Practitioner" status with the Institute.
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Barry University, American Cinema Course -- Spring 2022
Michelle taught an American Cinema survey course (ART 347) in the Fine Arts department. This is a course on the history of American film as an art form, as an industry, and as a system of representation and communication.Cinematic genres are analyzed as art forms. The course explores how Hollywood films work technically, aesthetically, and culturally to reinforce and challenge America’s national self-image.
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​Barry University, Marie Antoinette - April 2022
Michelle directed the production of David Adjmi's play.
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New Works Festival, Hippodrome Theatre - February 2022
Michelle produced the second year of the play development festival.
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Lessac International Conference - January 2022
Michelle presented a paper on her research of The Female Gaze in filmmaking theory and praxis. She presented her research on the use of the Lessac Body NRG's on set as a tool for activating "the feeling camera" in her own filmmaking practice investigating artifice and interiority.
SAINT: 5 Etudes for Joan of Arc - 2021
​Michelle directed SAINT, an experimental narrative feature film.
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