Services.

Safe Space Policy Consulting

Work with me to develop individualized policies, forms, and procedures for your regional or community theaters to serve your unique needs, including but not limited to:

• Comprehensive policies prohibiting discrimination, harassment, and other forms of misconduct;

• Audience codes of conduct;

• Complaint reporting, investigation, and resolution procedures; and

• Training sessions for leadership, production teams, staff, artists, crew, and volunteers.

One of the most common impediments to eradicating inappropriate or even illegal behavior in the theatre is the absence of a clear and communicated process for reporting misconduct when it occurs.

Countless theatre companies across the country fall below minimum employee thresholds that would provide for state and federal anti-discrimination laws to reach their support staff, crew, and artists.

As a result, theatre community members are often left without an outlet for reporting discriminatory, harassing, or inappropriate behavior without risking retaliation, retraumatization, or reputational harm.

Theatre cannot maintain this culture of silence and whisper networks will never fully protect individuals from serial predators or pervasive discrimination in our community.

This is why I have developed a comprehensive, experience-based, and trauma-informed model for complaint reporting, investigation, and resolution for use by regional and community theatre companies.

Using my expertise and experience in civil rights and employment discrimination law, I can help you develop proactive, comprehensive, and comprehensible policies to empower your community to address and prevent misconduct in your space.

Expert Educational Presentations

Collaborate with me to supplement your existing dramaturgical efforts and provide the legal history and context that underlies your performance.

My unique legal perspective can deepen your team’s understanding of a particular play or musical and ultimately drive home why its message is so important for today’s audiences and social movements.

Past Topics

Outlined the rise of labor unions in the 19th century and contextualized the 1899 New York newsboy strike from the perspective of 21st-century workers’ rights movements in the United States and abroad.

(Newsies, 2019)

Provided a detailed overview of jury service in the United States, including the history of gender and race discrimination in voir dire and jury selection, and applicable criminal law principles.

(12 Angry Jurors, 2018)

Reviewed the history of U.S. reproductive rights with a special emphasis on the creation and proliferation of oral and intrauterine contraceptives. Contextualized Margaret Sanger’s work in the 20th century in relation to modern legal efforts to help young people control their sexual and reproductive health, including Title X funding and Supreme Court precedents.

(What Every Girl Should Know, 2017)

Public Speaking Engagements

Join forces with me to add a legal perspective to your upcoming podcast, seminar, event, panel, or post-show talk-back.

Public speaking engagements are provided free of charge and offer real-world examples, practical applications, and academic approaches to theatrical productions and current events.

Past Presentations

The Role of Diversity and Inclusion in the Practice of Law, Bay Atlantic University, Washington, D.C.

(April 24, 2019)

Converging Minds Series Talk-Back, Convergence Theatre, Anacostia Arts Center, Washington, D.C.

(February 2, 2018)