C. Ryanne Domingues is an Assistant Professor in the BFA Acting Program in the Department of Performing Arts at Rider University. She is also the Artistic Director of Passage Theatre, a professional company in Trenton, NJ. Prior to Passage, she worked at a variety of theatres on both coasts in both artistic and administrative capacities, with much of her work being for Simpatico Theatre (which she co-founded in 2004) and the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia. She received her MFA in Directing from the University of California, Irvine, and was a participant in the 2008 Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She recently completed her teacher training in Moment Work with Tectonic Theatre Project and will be helping to devise two new plays in the coming year.