For ten years I was the set designer, set painter, and script writer for Circus Juventas, a performing arts school for youth in St. Paul, Minnesota. Every summer, Circus Juventas presents a breathtaking show in the tradition of Cirque du Soleil, highlighting their most advanced students. There was a new theme and storyline each year, requiring a new script, new sets, new costumes, props and music. For the script, I worked with the Artistic Director and her assistant to incorporate circus acts into the theatrical narrative. For the sets, I worked along side many talented circus parent volunteers and made many life-long friends doing the things I love: writing, drawing, painting.

While living in NYC, my community of friends was made up of artists of all mediums, including painters, photographers, filmmakers, dancers, performance artists, and actors. My studio often transformed from a painting studio to a space for building and painting sets, props and sewing costumes, even making toys and puppets, for theater, dance and performance art. The Kitchen, BACA Downtown, PS 122, and The New Vic were some of the venues for the dynamic and experimental performances I loved collaborating with the artists to create.