Teddy is the temporary Administrative Assistant for the Department of Theatre Arts.  He recently moved to the Palouse after completing his Master of Music degree in Voice Performance at the University of Oklahoma.  He spent the summer and fall working with two New England opera companies and traveling extensively in Europe and the US with his wife, who is a UI graduate student.  Outside the office, Teddy is a director, singer, and actor.  Most recently he directed the opera Riders to the Sea at OU, sang in the chorus of Thaïs at Opera Company of Middlebury, and performed several concerts and the role of Nerone in L’Incorronazione di Poppea at OU.

Teddy grew up in the Boston area, where he began performing at an early age with various theater companies and musical institutions.  He received a BA in Theatre with an emphasis on Directing from Middlebury College in 2008.  As part of his undergraduate work, he independently wrote and produced an original adaptation of Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince in Kyoto, Japan.  Teddy has also worked in Arts Administration and Music Publishing.  After college, he worked for The Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, MA, where he handled aspects of the development of new audio/music products.  His own group album All Things New was released in 2009.  He is pleased to have found his way into the Theatre Department at UI so soon after arriving in Moscow.