Performing Arts Faculty

Ms. Hickler is an actor, choreographer, director and movement specialist. Her physical theater work has been produced in theaters throughout the northeast including Lincoln Center Festival in NYC, and abroad at the Mercury Theatre in England. A former member of the Mobius Artists Group, she has collaborated with experimental theater, dance, media and performance artists from the U.S. and abroad. She has directed critically acclaimed productions for Sun Valley Shakespeare, Sedona Shakespeare, and the Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Co., and has been choreographer/movement director on numerous productions in New York City, Boston and Los Angeles. Ms. Hickler has over twenty years experience training actors and theater educators in graduate and undergraduate university programs such as Brandeis University, Boston University, Harvard University and Boston Conservatory, and professional studios and training programs. She is the director of Shakespeare Sedona Institute in Arizona, and has a long association with Shakespeare & Co. where she performs regularly with DibbleDance Theater and is on the faculty in the professional training programs.