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Current Projects

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

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

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.

Samantha at the Heurich House, Historical Society of Washington, D.C.

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

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

Theatrical techniques, staff training, Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, IN.

Hands-on Family Neighborhood Tours, D.C. Heritage Tourism Council, Washington, D.C.

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

Scenes for the Holidays, Historic Spanish Point, FL.

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

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

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

The Nunnery Riot, 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.

Rembrandt Peale: A Living Portrait, Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD.

Everybody’s Grandmother, Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD.

H.L. Mencken: Baltimore Icon, HL Mencken House, Baltimore, MD.

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

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

John Smith Returns, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, MD.

Meshach Browning, Hunter and Woodsman, Department of Natural Resources, MD.

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Audience Research and Evaluation (selected)

International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.   

National Children’s Museum, Washington, D.C.

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.

Virginia Historical Society, VA.

Hershey Museum, PA.

Mercer Museum, PA.

Seattle Aquarium, WA.

* Projects prior to MHC

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