"I graduated summa cum laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science in Theatre and a Minor in Psychology. My love of theatre actually stems from my passion for classical works such as Shakespeare, Grecian texts, and Jacobean plays. I recently graduated from LAMDA with a Masters in Classical Acting, which required an intense study of classical texts such as Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Not only did I acquire an in-depth understanding of rhetorical devices, grammar and text analysis, but I also honed my ability to take complex and sometimes esoteric passages and express them clearly to a contemporary audience, unfamiliar with such language.

My experiences with making classical texts more comprehensible have greatly enhanced my ability to take complex information and distill it into a clearer and simpler form. This has informed my teaching method of tailoring my style to the individual student’s needs. I am a strong believer that clear communication and open dialogue are vital to a fertile learning environment, and that it is also important to encourage students to be the best that they can be.

I have three years experience tutoring English, ESL and Math to elementary school children during my undergrad. I worked both 1 on 1 with students who required additional help as well as in group sessions. I was a National Merit Semi-Finalist and got a 2310 on my SAT (with perfect scores on both Reading and Writing) and I also got top scores on both my AP English Literature and AP English Language tests.

Similarly, I received a top score on my AP Psychology exam and then proceeded to minor in psychology during my undergrad. I originally began taking psychology classes to complement my theatre studies, but I soon found that I could apply my knowledge in developmental and social psychology to my tutoring sessions. One pretty amazing aspect of the human brain is the numerous methods it can use to perceive, catalogue and understand information, and once I familiarized myself with these methods, I found m" less...