PUBLICATIONS:

Review of Utah Shakespeare Festival’s The Tempest, Johns Hopkins University, https://doi.org/10.1353/shb.2023.a908002.

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“Hamlet in Cinema: Oedipus Lives On” in The Rocky Mountain Medieval & Renaissance Association Journal (RMMRA), Quidditas, 2023 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol44/iss1/9/

“Wisdom Comes with Years” (2nd place winner in non-fiction) and “No Longer Warm.” Kula Manu Literary Journal. BYU-Hawai’i Undergraduate Literary Journal. 2010.

RHETORICAL REVIEWS PUBLICATIONS

1. Grasmere Review: The Poet and the Muse, and the Violence of Genius
2. Pioneer Theatre Review: “Ten Brave Seconds” and the Courage of Staying in the Room
3. Sundance Review: Three Shorts to Check Out on Care, Courage, and Survival
4. Sundance Review: Jaripeo—Poetry, Queerness, and Machismo Inside Mexico’s Rodeo Culture
5. Inside “Jaripeo”: A Sundance Red Carpet Q&A with Producer Sarah Strunin
6. Sundance Review: Beth de Araújo’s “Josephine” Confronts the Reality of Rape Culture
7. Sundance Review: Aanikoobijigan—Repatriation of Native Ancestors
8. Sundance Review: The Lake — A Powerful but Partial Look at Great Salt Lake Crisis
9. Why Protesting Isn’t Moving ICE — and What Actually Will
10. Free Expression and the Future of Film: ACLU Panel at Sundance 2026
11. Sundance 2026: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Ava DuVernay, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and Jacqueline Stewart Confront Censorship and the New McCarthyism in The Story of Us
12. Review: “A Beautiful Noise” Brings Neil Diamond’s Music to Life at Salt Lake City’s Eccles Theater
13. Review: Sō Percussion Brings A World Premiere with Steel Pan Lineage to Libby Gardner Hall
14. “Deliberate Joy”: Francesca Harper on Legacy, Memory, and Ailey II
15. Hart Theater Company’s “The Last Five Years” Review (SLC)
16. SLC White Party 2026: A Voyage Through Time
17. Sundance 2026: Guide for Utah Locals
18. The Rhetorical Review — 2025: A Year Witnessing Performance, Community, and Care
19. A Machine Built to Break Down”: Pioneer Theatre Company’s Noises Off Delivers a Carefully Orchestrated Collapse
20. Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience at SLAC
21. Twas the Night Before: Cirque du Soleil’s First Christmas Show Makes Its Salt Lake City Debut
22. A Funny, Bloody, Queer Gothic: Voodoo Theatre Company’s “The Moors” Bites Back
23. Inhabiting the Inner Space: Arthur Greene and the Passage from Pain to Triumph at the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation
24. “Book of Ego” by Irene Loy: Drama Therapy and the Excavation of Self
25. “Keep Marching”: Suffs Bring the Suffrage Fight into 2025
26. Writing as an Act of Empathy, Listening to Bear Witness: PYGmalion’s “Tiny Beautiful Things”
27. AI Isn’t Invisible, It’s Draining the Planet: Why We Need to Know the Cost Before We Click
28. Kurbasy’s Songs of the Ukrainian Forest at Kingsbury Hall
29. The Dos and Don’ts of Theatre Criticism
30. The Dos and Don’ts of Theatre Criticism
31. “You Still Matter”: Pioneer Theatre Company’s “Dear Evan Hansen” Hits a Nerve in Utah
32. Lakecia Benjamin Has Risen: An Alto Sax Goddess in Her Noble Rise Era
33. “Deep Love: A Rock Opera”— The Living, the Dead, and the Space Between
34. Ballet Hispánico at Kingsbury Hall: Motion, Memory, and the Pulse of Latin Identity
35. “Don’t Dream It — Be It”: “The Rocky Horror Show” at the Ziegfeld Theater
36. Listening Walls and Lost Names: Westminster University’s The Hatmaker’s Wife
37. The Kitchen as Crucible: Reinvention in “The Roommate”
38. The Soundtrack of Sacrifice: A Two-Hander That Hits Home for Performers
39. The World Premiere of “Just Add Water”: Great Salt Lake Speaks
40. A Classic Reborn: “Some Like It Hot” Finds Liberation in Jazz and Gender
41. Golden Resonance: Wynona Yinuo Wang Opens Bachauer’s 50th Anniversary Season
42. When Flamingo Meets a Seagull: “Eb & Flo” and the Future of Great Salt Lake
43. Bachauer 2025–26 Concert Series: Celebrating 50 Years of Piano Excellence
44. A Technicolor Language: Joseph in ASL at the Ziegfeld
45. Beyond Labels: An Interview with Arturo Sandoval on Jazz, Genres, and Authenticity
46. The Urban Arts Festival: Fifteen Years of Streets as Canvas
47. Grid City Music Festival Returns with 80+ Bands, 75 Murals, and Three Days of Free Performances
48. Faith, Fire, and the Virgin’s Gaze: WVPAC’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”
49. Big Hair, Bigger Hearts: How “Steel Magnolias” Makes Room for Grief, Laughter, and Love
50. There’s Still Magic in Oz: Tuacahn’s Timely Tribute to a Classic
51. “Welcome to Fat School”: Class Is in Session, and the Curriculum Is Radical Self-Love
52. “The Rest is Silence”: Therapy, Tragedy, and Shakespearean Shenanigans
53. Extra! Extra! Tuacahn’s “Newsies” Delivers a Pressing Revival
54. “Park Bench Royalty”: A Junkyard Fable with a Beating Heart
55. “Juan Jose & the Deathly Vatos”: Chicano Magic, Spanglish Mayhem, and a Wand Made of Resistance
56. “My Brother Was a Vampire”: Flying Backward Through Queer Grief and Gothic Memory
57. When Words Were Enough: “Dear Jack, Dear Louise” at USF
58. From the Ocean Floor to Red Rock Heights: Tuacahn’s “Little Mermaid” Makes a Lasting Impression
59. SPRM, Spiked Soda, and Satire: SLAC’s Real Wives Roast the Beehive
60. & Juliet” Review: A Queer, Pop-Feminist Remix Takes Over Salt Lake City
61. “The Fork”: A Music-Filled Farcical Feast with HeartMusicals
62. Threads of Memory: Archive and Identity in the Work of Jessica Nicole Begay and Alexandria Yaa
63. Home Is Mismatched Dishes: Rediscovering “The Box-Car Children” on Stage
64. “Dreamgirls” at The Grand: Where Black Brilliance Takes Center Stage
65. What We Leave Behind: The World Premiere of “Paper Weight” by Skyler Denfeld
66. Rewriting the Punchline at Ziegfeld Theater: Tootsie’s Impact on Gender Norms
67. A Bonfire, a Breakdown, and the End of the World: “The Grown-Ups” Utah Premiere
68. Messy, Honest, and Unforgettable: “Waitress” at PTC
69. Pygmalion’s “Be Here Now”: The Art and Ethics of Presence
70. Pay No Attention to That Man: Wicked’s Wizard as Trumpian Spectacle
71. “The Aunties” Brings Indigenous Stories and Community to Utah Stages
72. “Coach Coach”: Self-Reflexivity, Late Capitalism, and the Theatre of Becoming
73. A’lante Flamenco Ignites the Westminster Concert Series with Passion and Precision
74. “Life of Pi”: Survival, Spirituality, and the Power of Puppetry
75. Fatherhood, Friendship, and Fragility: A Powerful Case for the Existence of God
76. The World Premiere of “The Beatrix Potter Defense Society”: A Gendered Reclamation of Artistic Freedom
77. Hart Theatre Company’s “Next to Normal”: A Raw and Resonant Exploration of Mental Illness
78. “The Oresteia” by Playwright Emilio Casillas: A Contemporary Reimagining of Three Greek Tragedies
79. Les Misérables: A Timeless Story of Justice, Revolution, and Redemption
80. Natural Woman, Timeless Story: “Beautiful” Brings Carole King’s Legacy to Life
81. The World Premiere of KILO-WAT by Aaron Asano Swenson: Basketball, War, and the Power of Storytelling
82. Book Review—Rhetorical Healing: The Reeducation of Contemporary Black Womanhood by Tamika L. Carey
83. Improv Salt Lake: Building a Hub for Creativity and Community in Salt Lake City
84. “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike”: A Theatrical Exploration of Family and Identity
85. “Kimberly Akimbo”: A Unique Blend of Humor and Heart
86. Unpacking Neverland: Removing Indigenous Stereotypes from Tiger Lily in “Peter Pan”
87. Obsession Unleashed: Onstage Adaptation of Steven King’s “Misery” Delivers the Perfect Halloween Thrills
88. The World Premiere of “Full Color”: Painting a Portrait of Life’s Realities by Utah BIPOC Artists
89. Big Vocals and Laughs in a Time Capsule: The National Tour of “Funny Girl”
90. Brushes with Conflict: The Utah Premiere of “God Kinda Looks Like Tupac” by Emilio Rodriguez
91. Love Takes the Lead: “Mrs. Doubtfire The Musical”
92. “Hamilton” Unbound: A Timeless Fusion of History and Modernity on Stage‘
93. Parker Theatre’s “Twelfth Night”: A Comical Exploration of Identity and Disguise
94. Unearthing the Psyche: Western Minerals Shines with Desert Mystique
95. Shrewdly Hilarious: Campy Shakespeare at Its Best
96. A Magically Pastoral Tale of Redemption: Utah Shakespeare Festival’s “The Winter’s Tale”
97. Humanizing a Legend: “The Mountaintop” at Utah Shakespeare Festival
98. Stellar Aspirations: Illuminating the Life of Henrietta Leavitt in “Silent Sky”
99. Step Right Up: Hilarious Hijinks at Utah Shakespeare Festival’s “The 39 Steps”
100. Much Ado About Everything: Noting the Humor and Heart in Shakespeare’s Comedy
101. “Frozen” in the Desert: Tuacahn’s Icy Spectacle
102. Tuacahn’s “Ring of Fire” Shines but Struggles to Ignite the True Spirit of Johnny Cash
103. Pirouettes and Puberty: The Fierce and Unflinching World of “Dance Nation”
104. A Beautifully Melancholy Tune: Bob Dylan’s Genius Reimagined in “Girl From the North Country”
105. Annie at the Eccles: A Timeless and Relevant Triumph
106. Come From Away the Musical: Where Compassion Takes Flight
107. “Bitter Lemon”: Welcome to Hell, Macbeth!
108. A Modern Classic Reimagined: “Pretty Woman: The Musical”
109. Voodoo Theatre’s “The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey”: a Heart-warming yet Heart-breaking Illumination of the Importance of Individualism and Tolerance
110. MJ the Musical: Moonwalking that Just May “Heal the World”
111. Reshaping Shakespeare for the Better: The World Premiere of “Balthazar” by Debora Threedy
112. Makeup Artist Spotlight: Kirk Cambridge-Del Pesche: “Don’t Give Up! Manifest Your Destiny! Trust Your Process!”
113. A Royal Triumph of Women’s Power: SIX the Musical Reigns Supreme
114. Lions, Tigers, and Stunning Vocals, Oh My! Dorothy Shines in “The Wiz.”
115. Shakespeare Reimagined: The Tempest at the University of Utah
116. Wasatch Theatre Company Features Indigenous Playwright, Larissa FastHorse, and “The Thanksgiving Play”
117. Much Ado About . . . Something

Utah Theatre Blogs and Front Row Reviewer REVIEWS

1. Brilliance and Breakdown: PROOF at Fellowship Theater
2. The Weight of Silence: The World Premiere of THE BIG QUIET
3. Wasatch Theatre Company’s ON GOLDEN POND Makes Waves
4. Suspense and Social Commentary with SLAC’s Whitelisted
5. Voodoo Theatre Company’s Rendition of SEMINAR is a Masterclass in Wit and Wordplay
6. CenterPoint Legacy Theatre’s Jekyll & Hyde the Musical: A Duality of Theatrical Brilliance
7. Tarzan, Starring Original Broadway star Josh Strickland, Swings and Soars at Tuacahn Center for the Arts
8. Broadway Bound Shucked Delights Audiences with Big Vocals at Friday’s Premier in Salt Lake City at Pioneer Theatre Company
9. The Utah Festival of Opera and Musical Theatre Brings Elton John and Tim Rice’s Musical  Aida and it is a Smashing Success
10. UFOMT Provides an Operatic Aida That is Dramatic and Powerful
11. PYGgmalion Theatre Company’s Near Mint is as Wonderful as the Opening Day of Baseball Season
12. Weber State’s Thought-Provoking New Musical Matchstick Girl Could Provide Theatre-goers an Alternative to Holiday Staples
13. Don’t Miss Hamlet: Salt Lake City’s Unique Adaptation by Parker Theatre
14. Get Ready to be Blown Away by Wasatch Theatre Company’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
15. Good Company Theatre’s Developmental Production, To Saints and Stars, is Out of This World
16. After Waiting for 25 Years, Opera Goers Thrill to Utah Opera’s The Flying Dutchman
17. Get Ready to Laugh at OPPA’s Greater Tuna
18. Spotlight Interview: Rising Musical Artist and Teacher, Quesley Ann Bunch Quesley in Concert! at On Pitch Performing Arts in Layton 
19. Don’t Miss Your Chance to See Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Enchanted Edition) at On Pitch Performing Arts in Layton, or You Will Say “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo”
20. Sanctuary Theatre Company Debuts New Performing Space with Hilariously Irreverent Production of Avenue Q
21. Catch the Closing Weekend of OPPA’s Jekyll & Hyde Before It’s Too Late
22. CenterPoint Legacy Theatre’s Something Rotten! is a Hilarious and Provocative Parody of Shakespeare and Musicals
23. Tuacahn Center for the Arts Produces a Magical, Imaginative, and Comical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Musical
24. “The Sun is Gonna Shine Again” When You See Bright Star at CenterPoint Legacy Theatre
25. In Layton On Pitch Performing Arts’ Little Women is Full of “Astonishing” Moments 
26. The Good Shepherds at the Syracuse Amphitheater Brings Light to a Pertinent Issue
27. Immaculate Attention to Detail in CenterPoint Legacy Theatre’s A Murder is Announced Brings Style to a Familiar Whodunit
28. On Pitch Performing Arts Production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid is “Positoovity” Charming

FUNDING

• $500 Scholarship, HopeGiver 2025 Winter Semester, I Can. I Am. Foundation (2025)
• $1000 Scholarship, HopeGiver 2024 Fall Semester, I Can. I Am. Foundation (2024)
• $500 College of Humanities Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Utah (2024)
• $750 Travel Award, CCCC Annual Convention (2024)
• $5,000/Year Humanities ESRR Graduate Fellowship, Arts Endowment Fund at The Chicago Community Foundation, University of Utah (2023-2027)
• $500 Travel Award, Rocky Mountain MLA (2022)
• David O. McKay Scholarship Recipient, Brigham Young University of Hawai’i (2006)—Four-Year Full Ride Tuition Scholarship (1 of 2 awarded to incoming freshmen from Hawai’i)

Accomplishments and Certifications

• IRB Approved for my Ethnography Research Project towards my dissertation: An Exploratory Qualitative Ethnographic Research Analysis of Decolonial Themes Through “Shakespeare Adaptations in Writing 4950, University of Utah, April 2024
• Received a Professional Development/Certificate of Recognition for Presenting at “Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands.
• Served as a Utah Shakespeare Festival Words Cubed (New Play Development Program) Reader: I was asked to provide feedback on ten new works, 2023-2024 & 2024-2025
• Graduate Student Representative on the COH Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force at the University of Utah, 2023-2024
• Participant of the 2023 Salt Lake MLA Summer Institute for Reading and Writing Pedagogies at Access-Oriented Institutions with Dr. Darin Jensen (Salt Lake Community College, Department of English, Linguistics, and Writing Studies) and Dr. Christie Toth (University of Utah, Department of Writing and Rhetoric Studies)
• Adjunct Representative for the TA Selection Committee of the Master’s English Program of Weber State University, March 2023
• Nominated for Outstanding University Teaching Awards at Weber State University, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023
• Certificate of Achievement for participating in Weber State University’s 10-week Course, Higher Education Academy, an in-depth dive into the inner workings of the history of higher-ed in the State of Utah for Staff and Faculty, December 2022
• Participant of a funded three-week National Endowment for the Humanities Transforming Shakespeare’s Tragedies: Adaptations, Education, and Diversity Summer Institute in Ogden, UT, July 2022, with Dr. Deborah Uman (Dean of the Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts & Humanities at Weber State University) and Dr. Jennifer Flaherty (Professor of English at Georgia College).
• Library Student Advisory Committee: Weber State University with Wendy Holliday (Dean of Library), 2022
• Footnote for contributions to David Hartwig’s Publication “Local Interventions: Civic Engagement through Shakespearean Performance” in Shakespeare Bulletin, 2021

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & PANELS

2026
• “Conference and Our Conversations.” (Accepted)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). March 4–7, 2026 — Cleveland, OH.

2025
• “Glimmering Nows: Writing and Storying as Un/Stable Liberatory Collaboration.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). April 9–12, 2025 — Baltimore, MD.

• Panelist, “Sustaining a Community College: TYCA West and the Professional Apprenticeship Program.”
TYCA West. June 12, 2025 — Salt Lake Community College.
Panel organized by Christie Toth (University of Utah), Darin Jensen (SLCC), and Mary Winsor (SLCC).

2024
• “A Panel Discussion on the Use of AI in the Humanities: A Call to Action to Consider the Accessibility of Aural Learning (Combined with Visual Learning).” August 23, 2024.

• “Rhetorical Sound: A Call to Action to Consider the Accessibility of Aural Learning.”
Computers & Writing Conference. June 20–22, 2024 — Fort Worth, TX.

• “A Decolonial Approach to Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theater.”
University of Wisconsin–Madison Rhetoric Society of America Spring Symposium (Virtual). April 11–12, 2024.

• “Rhetorical Sound: A Call to Action to Bring Back Aural Listening and Learning into College Classrooms.”
Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) Conference. April 3, 2024 — Spokane, WA.

• “A Decolonial Approach to Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theater.”
Adapting, Translating, and Performing Shakespeare in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands. March 7–9, 2024 — San Antonio, TX.

• “Rhetorical Sound: A Call to Action to Consider the Accessibility of Aural Learning.”
Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE) Annual Conference (Virtual). February 1–2, 2024.

2023
• “Rhetorical Sound: Bring Back Aural Listening and Learning into College Classrooms.”
TYCA-West. September 29, 2023 — Salt Lake Community College, Taylorsville, UT.

2022
• “Hamlet in Cinema: Oedipus Lives On.”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA). October 2022 — Albuquerque, NM.

• “Hamlet in Cinema: Oedipus Lives On.”
54th Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference: Navigating Medieval Spaces: Real and Imagined. June 16–18, 2022 — University of Utah.

2021
• “Decolonializing Stanley Fish’s ‘Interpretive Communities’ for Academic Culture.”
University of Utah Building Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Symposium. November 2021.

• “Satan and Mankind: A Shared Interpretive Community in Paradise Lost.”
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA), originally scheduled for October 2020; presented online in 2021.

2010
• “No Longer Warm” (Poetry Reading).
Weber State University’s 25th National Undergraduate Literature Conference. Creative Writing — Poetry. April 2–4, 2010.