About my Work

As Siobhan has trained in many facets of theatre, learning to direct felt like a logical addition to her skill-set. Siobhan is incredibly detail-oriented but her skills at looking at the big picture cannot be understated. She is also very passionate about creating an inclusive, productive and collaborative work environment in whatever way she can. 

Siobhan’s dedication to community outreach was instilled in her at a young age. Her idol as a child was her great aunt, Sister Rosemary Connelly, Executive Director of Misericordia Heart of Mercy. Sr. Rosemary’s commitment to giving developmentally disabled people fulfilling lives, always standing firm against the patriarchal system of the Catholic Church and ableist Chicago politicians empowered Siobhan to organize and work at Misericordia charity events starting when she was 11-years-old. She also worked with individual care teams to adapt camp activities for disabled young adults several consecutive years in high school. Siobhan was also a legal intern for Catholic Charities when she was 18, helping to match underserved clients with the right attorneys for a variety of legal battles. All this to say, Siobhan’s lifelong passion has been to illuminate diverse stories and be a part of giving people a higher quality of life. 

Being neurodivergent herself, Siobhan understands the ableist and generally ignorant pitfalls many directors fall into, and is very intentional about circumventing them. She believes everyone’s story should be told and wants to provide the tools to give voice to the voiceless. Through working with directors in various capacities, Siobhan has become very intentional about how she wants to create an equitable work environment.

Siobhan is also growing as an audition coach and music director. She can create harmony guide tracks in mere minutes and has a firm grasp of Vocal Pedagogy as it applies to a wide range of genres and voice types. She has started teaching herself many of the skills required for these roles. 

Siobhan did not expect to pick up skills in Choreography, as memorizing choreography has always been her greatest challenge in performing musicals. Siobhan’s body dysmorphia prevented her from dancing for years before she realized she needed the right teacher. That teacher was Cindy Hartigan, who taught Siobhan Musical Theatre, Tap and Jazz Dance at North Central College. After taking these classes, Siobhan decided to take the plunge and join Hartigan’s Choreography class, in which she collaborated with the other students to create choreography in a variety of styles. One of her favorite collaborative pieces being “Holding Out for a Hero” which she worked on with Natalie Barnes and Ayako Miyauchi.

Once Siobhan started choreographing on her own, she started to really specialize in gestural choreography, Bill T. Jones’ work on Spring Awakening being one of her biggest inspirations. She also found a passion for performing this style while working on North Central’s production of Next to Normal, in which she performed some gestural choreography by Bailee Fyock. Siobhan eventually choreographed a few segments of the song “Burn the Old Thing Up” from Lizzie the Musical, which several fellow dancers/choreographers helped bring to life. She would absolutely love to stage a full production of Lizzie using this symbolic style of choreography.

Siobhan’s experience performing Musical Comedy has also led to her choreographing more over-the-top dance pieces. Currently she is trying to finish full concepts for “We’re Not Sorry” from Urinetown and “Hold Me, Bat Boy” from Bat Boy. Siobhan has made an effort to keep her skills sharp and continue developing her choreography skills. 

Dramaturgy is a very new skill. After studying Theatre History under accomplished dramaturg John Warrick, Siobhan was assigned the role of dramaturg on North Central College’s 2025 Opera Workshop, The Impresario }{ At the Audition, a piece which combines W.A. Mozart’s short opera, Der Schauspieldirektor, with scenes from La Clemenza di Tito, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, Offenbach’s La Perichole and Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. Siobhan spent several months researching each piece and created a presentation on Der Schauspieldirektor for the performers. She is also in the process of creating a website to introduce audience members to the world of these operas and opera in general. She is excited to continue presenting her work.