Between 2017–2020, she collaborated with the theater historian Richard Schoch on the AHRC Research Project Performing Restoration Shakespeare.
in music history and literature and vocal performance, summa cum laude, at Illinois State University in 1994.
She was the co-investigator on Performing Restoration Shakespeare, a project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK (2017-2020) and she is a general editor for The Collected Works of John Eccles (A-R Editions).
More recently, she has engaged with practice-based research, running workshops that staged excerpts of William Davenant's Macbeth and Charles Gildon's Measure for Measure (Folger Theatre, Washington DC) and Thomas Middleton's The Witch (Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, Virginia).
As part of the Performing Restoration Shakespeare project, she was the music director for a workshop of the Restoration-era Tempest (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Shakespeare's Globe, London) and co-led a workshop for scholars and was a consultant for a full professional production of Davenant's Macbeth at the Folger Theatre, Washington DC.