David Prete

• Developed diversified course curriculum to meet regulatory standards and support learning objectives.
• Encouraged class discussions by building discussions into lessons, actively soliciting input, asking open-ended questions and using techniques to track student participation.
• Used different learning modes and types of technology to engage students in achieving learning outcomes.
• Created dynamic learning environment that valued instructor and student interaction.
• Worked with dean to assess and evaluate courses and programs in appropriate discipline.
• Created positive and safe learning environment for students by setting and enforcing classroom code of conduct.
• Incorporated instructional technologies in course delivery for both in-class and online instruction.
• Created syllabus and instructional plans for each class session in accord with stated course objectives.
• Usher late teens from childhood into adulthood, offering them a larger sense of their responsibilities, belonging, and work in the world.
• Help students support their communities by creating work relevant to the everyday lives of the people they contact.
• Discern the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
• Lead large groups of teens, in non-violent verbal, physical, emotional, and intellectual communication.
• Pass along a variety of information about the arts via lectures and instruction designed to hold students’ attention, and strengthen their belief systems through critical thinking, reflection and observation.
• Create classroom spaces where students are free from judgment and

• ·Help executives create excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• · How to use their voice and body to seize command a hold an audience’s attention in rooms of any size.
• · How to listen to and discern the content, emotional quality, and intention to another’s message.
• · Develop empathy for their employees so they may respond and lead from a place of larger understanding.
• · Develop confidence in the face of imposter syndrome and public speaking anxiety.

• · Commit to the fruition of a potentially ten-year process that includes crippling self-doubt, harsh criticism, rebuildings, removings, reconsiderings, restarts, and incessant uncertainties.
• · Structure a comprehensive story arc that unfolds over the course of 300 plus pages.
• · Express a coherent theme through the dramatization of human interactions and life-changing events.
• · Organizing an infinite possibilities of word combinations to create the credible intentions, inner thoughts, and emotional lives of a variety of characters.
• Composed original written material for various types of publications and submitted for approval by supervisor, editor or publisher.
• Developed and pitched story ideas to editors.
• Managed competing deadlines with efficiency.
• Prepared and submitted professional proposals to select publishers to outline works, promotional skills and literary experience.

I have directed fifty plus plays for professional and academic theater companies in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Normal, Illinois.

• · Lead a team of 150+ artists and technicians through a fully realized creative project for the consumption and delight of a paying audience on a laughably small budget in a ridiculously short amount of time.
• · Inspire a company to maintain a positive, functional work environment while repeatedly creating products that gross less than their overhead due to distribution and ticket pricing constraints.
• · Assure an entire company adheres to the rights and obligations of five different theatrical unions (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, United Scenic Artists, The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actor’s Equity Association, Society of American Fight Directors).
• · Choose material that generates capital for an institution and satisfies season ticket holders’ expectations.
• · Nurture the emotional and psychological needs of a team of artists daily to maintain the harmony and health of interpersonal communications and a safe workplace.
• · Create a space where all team member’s personal experience, intelligence, and creativity are valued and deemed integral ingredients of their job.
• · Successfully lead an entire company of artists and technicians in overcoming the insurmountable odds and imminent disasters of a rehearsal process.

• Studied scripts to successfully portray characters in dramas and comedies.
• Offered suggestions to directors regarding roles, scenes and lines to improve output.
• Performed alongside various well-known actors and actresses.
• Managed time to arrive on set when required to not delay rehearsals and shows.
• Applied techniques, using sense memory, character analysis and script analysis to bring characters to life.
• Gained valuable on-set experience by working with established directors.
• Utilized physical and vocal techniques to portray characters on stage.
• Sought out auditions for different roles, arriving on time and well-prepared.
• · Analyze characters through the lens of compassion and understanding with a focus on their intentions and reasons for their desires.
• · Develop insights into the function a character serves in the larger story of a play or film.
• · Use vulnerability and courage as a vehicle through which I stand before an audience and expose my emotional and intellectual life.
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