ABOUT
Performer. Director. Creator. Administrator. Educator.
Mother of One | Two | Three.
My life is a deep dive into the simultaneously tenuous and generative relationship between the journey of an artist and the bittersweet daily act of motherhood.
After almost 20 years out in the field working as a performer, director, theater-maker and freelance educator (and almost 18 years as a parent), I'm delighted to be back in St. Louis.
As Managing Director and Production Manager for Upstream Theater, I'm channeling my disparate experiences in theater-making to promote and uplift both Upstream’s mission and St. Louis’ many incredible artists and technicians.
Some favorite performance work over the years includes multiple projects with Kestrel Leah and Physical Plastic (LA), Copenhagen (STLAS), Daedalus’ Daughter at REDCAT (LA), Hamlet with Prison Performing Arts (featured on This American Life), Weetzie Bat at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the years touring with Metro Theater Company (US and Taiwan).
Since earning my MFA in Theater from Naropa, I've taught acting at NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing, Naropa, Rhodes College (TN), Acrobatics of the Heart (Earthdance), the National Alliance of Acting Teachers (LA), Marlborough School (LA), Crossroads and COCA (STL).
Some regional directing credits include Hamlet with Anon It Moves in Portland, Maria est Perdue at the Women On the Edge Festival in SF, and Embodied Poetics, a collaboration between Naropa's MFA and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. I've also been privileged to work with Stephen Wangh on The Tempest at Naropa and The Testimony Project at Princeton University.
At various moments, I've gotten the bug to write or create my own material, or have been commissioned to do so. In that vein, I've authored Mama, House of Daughters, and It’s a Girl.
If I am not immersed in creating or promoting live performance, I am in a tree, barefoot in a field, riding my bike, traveling to explore the earth's wonders, or reading a book. On this life journey, I'm particularly grateful for my roots as a St. Louisan, as one of the Smith/Watt family posse, as a member of the Wyandot Nation, and as mother of Oliver, Inez and Sabine.