ogemdi ude

Recipient of one of the highest awards given to Princeton University undergraduates. Received support for an independent project for which I spent 2017 in Melbourne, Australia cultivating a performance practice that investigates modes of processing trauma and memory through physicality. Will culminate in a new full length dance theater work entitled SOMA, premiering at La Mama Theatre.

Assist Princeton’s Office of Religious Life with daily administrative tasks. Tasks include scheduling work calendars, managing, duties for student workers, interviewing and writing profiles on religious leaders, and designing promotional material using Adobe Photoshop & InDesign.

Assisted the producers of musical improvised comedy troupe Baby Wants Candy with marketing and production during the company’s annual run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Tasks included creating and distributing publicity for the show daily, taking photos for advertising purposes, and filming the show each night.

Artistic Director of Princeton Summer Theater, a summer stock theater company run annually out of Princeton University’s Hamilton Murray Theatre. Oversee the artistic vision of the company. Select the shows to be produced in the theater’s season. Hire and oversee the theater’s executive and managing board, production and design staff, directors, as well as cast the company of actors. Direct the final show of the theater’s season and have substantial creative involvement in the rest of the season’s productions.

Interned for the off-Broadway Public Theater’s Public Works department, dedicated to putting on the final Shakespeare in the Park play of the season, The Winter’s Tale, at the Delacorte Theater. The 200-person production involved Broadway actors and community members from across NYC’s five boroughs. Assisted director Lear deBessonet and carried out tasks including editing scripts, teaching choreography, coordinating and teaching youth theater classes, organizing community gatherings, and helping run/coordinate rehearsals.

Junior year spring semester study abroad program at Worcester College, Oxford. Activities and Societies: Oxford University Dramatic Society, Experimental Theatre Club

Activities and Societies: Program in Theater, Program in Dance, Theatre Intime, Princeton University Players, Princeton Triangle Club, Peer Academic Advisers, English Department Student Advisory Board, The Princeton Buffer