School of Theatre Arts

Acting, Voice, & Speech

Aubrey is thrilled and grateful to have been welcomed as a full time professor to the School of Theatre Arts at Illinois Wesleyan University. She is an educator, performer, choreographer, and accent coach with credits across the US, Canada, and Latin America. Originally hailing from Los Angeles, CA, Aubrey most recently set down roots in Boston, MA. She has previously been an adjunct/faculty fellow at Dean College, Stonehill College, Florida Atlantic University, and Heidelberg University. Her current specialty is Voice and Speech pedagogy, but her collegiate teaching courses have included Basic Performance, Voice, Speech, Movement, Acting I & II, Musical Theatre, Acting Lab, Theatre Appreciation, and Script Analysis. Aubrey is also a Knight-Thompson Speechwork certified teacher/accent coach. Accent coaching credits include Murder on the Orient Express, Big Fish, My Favorite Year, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Importance of Being Earnest, and John Proctor is the Villain.

Performance credits include 2 national tours and over 30 regional productions. National tours: CATS (Sillabub, u/s Rumpleteazer); McCoy Rigby’s Rudolph… (u/s Rudolph, Clarice, flight captain).  With the latter, Aubrey trained in flying with Cathy Rigby herself(!) and performed at Madison Square Garden and on The Wendy Williams Show. Aubrey has had the opportunity to perform live onstage with Ken Page, Taylor Dayne, Shirley Jones, and Patrick Cassidy. Other regional credits include shows at Gateway Playhouse, Merry-go-Round Playhouse, Lambs Players, Moonlight Stage, Fullerton CLO, Cabrillo Music Theatre, 3D Theatricals, Palm Beach Dramaworks, Welk Resort, and ICT Long Beach. Aubrey originated the role of Danny in the World Premiere play Last Night in Inwood at Theatre Lab in Boca Raton, FL.

Aubrey is extremely proud that the cast of the show she directed and choreographed at Dean College, Breath of Stars, received a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) Merit Award for Outstanding Ensemble in 2025.

She is also a prolific audiobook narrator and 500 hour certified yoga instructor.

 

Education

MFA, Acting, Florida Atlantic University

BA, Theatre and International Relations Minor, University of Southern California

 

Additional Training

Certified Knight-Thompson Speechwork Teacher

500 hour Yoga Alliance Yoga Certified Instructor

Specializations in Restorative Yoga, Chair Yoga, and Ayurvedic Living

 

Professional Affiliations

Actors Equity Association

Voice and Speech Teachers Association

International Association of Dance Medicine and Science

 

Awards and Select Grants

Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Merit Award for Outstanding Ensemble (for directed/choreographed play Breath of Stars)

Florida Atlantic University 3 Minute Thesis Competition: Championship Round - 3rd place; Preliminary Round - 1st place

Florida Atlantic University Presidential Fellowship for outstanding incoming MFA candidate