2017/2018

• Recipient of the Outstanding Tenured Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Howard University - this award emphasizes overall achievements in research, teaching and service.
• Playwriting minor, Carmin Wong won the Wolly Mammoth Women's Voices Monologue Competition. Her monologue was performed at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. 2/28/18
• Taught 3 classes each semester in the Department of Theatre Arts.
• Created new course "Introduction to Production Dramaturgy". This will be the first time a codified course on dramaturgy will be offered and taught at an HBCU. The course will replace playwriting 3 on the playwriting minor scheme. This change will support the increased numbers of students who have shown an interest in pursuing dramaturgy as a field of study and employment.
• Served as area coordinator of playwriting minor.
• Guided and supported 28 playwriting minor students through ongoing advisement sessions.
• Extended learning beyond the classroom through invited guests working in the professional arena along with student attendance at local theatrical productions followed by analysis and discussion.

Classes Taught

Fall 2017

• Playwriting 1
• Play Analysis
• Creativity in Life and Theatre

Spring 2018

• Playwriting 2
• Play Analysis
• Creativity in Life and Theatre