Artistic PracticesActor/Performer | Writer | Teaching Artist |
Artistic PracticesActor/Performer | Writer | Teaching Artist |
Actor/PerformerMy acting experience includes traditional plays, devised work, mystery dinner theatre, and LGBTQ+ sensitivity training for the hospitality sector. I’ve worked with Shakespeare in Clark Park, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma, Egopo Classic Theater, Passage Theater, and Quince Productions.
I hold a BA in Theatre from Temple University. I’ve studied acting techniques including Michael Checkov, Uta Hagan, Meisner, Laban/Viewpoints, commedia dell’arte, armed and unarmed stage combat, vocal performance, and dance/movement. |
StoryUp! Description: StoryUP! “Stories at Home” Project, 2020 (Performed and edited by Carly L. Bodnar)
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WriterI am currently working on my first children’s book, Ella the Empath, a fun, colorful celebration of empathy, emotions, and compassion for readers 8 and up! I have also recently branched out into screenwriting, and am currently working on two hour-long scripted pilots.
Past writing credits include the solo cabaret performances, Finding Myself: Shit, I Didn’t Even Know I Was Lost and Girl Talk: Um, Let Me Explain. |
Teaching ArtistTeaching theater has allowed me to use my skills and knowledge to instill a love of storytelling, performance, and self-expression in a new generation. My goal as a teaching artist is to cultivate an appreciation of all aspects of theater, both as an artist and observer. My teaching artist practice focuses on creative and imaginative thinking, collaboration, building trust, and promoting empathy, communication, confidence, and awareness of mind, body and voice.
Since 2013, I have taught children, teenagers and adults throughout the Greater Philadelphia area with in-school, after-school, and summer programs through the Pennsylvania Arts Education Partnership, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia Theater Company, Lantern Theater Company, Theatre Horizon, and Delaware Theatre Company. |