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Current Projects

Roanoke Island Festival Park; writing grants to develop museum theatre program; consultation on integrating museum theatre into interpretation.

The First State Heritage Park at Dover, Delaware; scripting museum theatre; evaluation of museum theatre presentation.  

National Children’s Museum, Washington DC.; formative evaluation for exhibition design and summative evaluation of training program.

Black Women Playwrights’ Group. Focus groups to develop and evaluate national conference.

Worcester Historical Museum and Museum Design Associates. Visitors’ reactions to exhibition alternatives and activities.

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park. Focus groups with tourists and community members for exhibition development.

Star-Spangled Banner Flag House. Audience research to assess visitor and community reaction to, and knowledge of, the Flag House.

Related Projects*

Museum Theatre and Live Interpretation (selected)

Scenes from 1837, Conner Prairie and Old Sturbridge Village. Playwright for AASLH’s Outdoor Museum Living History Research Project. 

The Value of Life, with the exhibition “Deadly Science: Creating the Master Race.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

A Taste of Freedom: African Americans in the War of 1812, Star-Spangled Banner Flag House, MD.

Samantha at the Heurich House, Historical Society of Washington DC.

American Girl School Days, American Girl Dolls: Pleasant Company, Middleton, WI.

Celebrate Science: A Multimedia Tribute to Maryland Scientists and Engineers, Maryland Science Center, MD.

Crossings – Immigrants Coming to America, Mystic Seaport Museum, CT.

Scenes from the Civil War – the First Victims in Baltimore, Baltimore Civil War Museum, MD.

Heroes Just Like You: the Search for Meaning in Work, Baltimore City Life Museums, MD.

Steps in Time: Scenes from 1840 Baltimore, 1840 House Baltimore, MD.

I Want to Be in Heaven Sitting Down, Carroll Mansion, Baltimore MD.

Life on the Avenue: Baltimore’s Pennsylvania Avenue in the1940s, Baltimore City Life Museums, MD.

Mirror on the Past: Racial Relations in Baltimore, 1840 House, Baltimore City Life Museums, MD.

Audience Research and Evaluation (selected)

International Spy Museum, Washington D.C.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.   
USS Arizona National Memorial, HI.
USS Grant National Historic Site, MS.
Mystic Seaport Museum, CT.
Pennsylvania Humanities Council, PA.
High Desert Museum, OR.
National Archives, Washington, DC.
American Philosophical Society, PA.
Hershey Museum, PA.
Mercer Museum, PA.
Seattle Aquarium, WA.
*Projects prior to MHC

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