Career Highlights

Media

•   Writer, Media Monitor and Social Media Specialist for FEMA

•   Restaurant and Theatre critic, Rocky Mountain News, a Scripps Howard newspaper

•   Restaurant critic and Contributing Editor, 5280 Magazine, Denver

•   Radio Talk Show Host KOA, KTLK and KHOW AM, Denver

•   Film Critic, Quest Magazine and Out Front

•   Regular Columnist, Colorado Homes and Lifestyles

•  Regional reporter, InTheater Magazine, New York

 

Theater

•   Theatre critic for more than 10 years. Studied theater arts for more than 25 years.

•   Taught developmental and creative dramatics

•   Acted in more than 35 productions

•   Produced and/or directed more than 20 shows

•   MC and auctioneer at charity functions

•  Member of American Theater Critics Association
and the Denver Drama Critics Circle

 

Restaurants:

Manager or Owner

•   Dudley’s, Denver

•   Rock Island, Denver

•   Cafe Ronchetti, Denver

•   Bluepoint, Denver

•   Crayons, Los Angeles

•   Cafe Arlberg, The Lodge at Vail (CO)

•  Ruby Nightclub, Denver

 

Consultant

•   Stock Exchange, Los Angeles

•   Meters, Fort Lauderdale

•   Linda’s, Capital Club and Baltic Room, Seattle

•   1540 Broadway Complex, New York

•   Big Red F Restaurant Group, Boulder, CO

 

 

Cooking Instructor

•  Seasoned Chef Cooking School, Denver

 

Other

•   Hanzon-Wise Conceptual Design, Denver Design firm specializing in interactive retail and entertainment experiences

•   Cherry Creek School District, Englewood, CO
Drama Instructor at Heritage Elementary School

•   Estate Manager, Hambleden, UK
Management of large English home

•   Colorado Children’s Theatre Company Actor/writer/storyteller

•   Estate Manager, Los Angeles CA

Awards & Honors

•   Society of Professional Journalists – 2nd place for arts and entertainment reporting, 1998

•   Alliance for Colorado Theatre, Distinguished Service Award, 1998

•   Colorado’s Top 100 in the Media Award, 1999

 

Education

•   Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Speech and Theatre Major

•   Metropolitan State College, Denver, Colorado
Theater major

•   Loretto Heights College, Denver, Colorado
Theatre major

•   Starkey Institute for Estate Management, Denver, Colorado

•  Teaching English as a Second Language, Certificate from Boston University, Guadalajara Mexico

 

Activities

•  Officer with Friends of the Lowenstein Theatre

•  Former Board member of Friends of the Mayan

•  Volunteer for Colorado AIDS Project, Project Angelheart, Opera Colorado, Women’s Bean Project, Harmony House, Denver Urban Gardens, Soup for the Soul

•  Former member of Communications Committee for Denver

•  Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau

 

Interests

•  International travel (been to >70 countries)

• food, especially ethnic cuisine

• theatre

• film

• art

• architecture

• customs around the world

• celebrity interviews

• sustainability issues

• children’s theater

• musical theater

• gap year studies

• volunteerism

• micro finance

• bowling, marbles

• political theater