“Where do we begin? First, you must learn who YOU are.”

-Uta Hagen, Respect for Acting

Savannah, also known as Vee, is a Company Member with The Hippodrome Theatre, currently working as a co-producer of The Hipp’s Spotlight Cabaret Series and playing as Rhetta in the 2025 Summer musical , Pump Boys & Dinettes. She also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer with the University of Florida’s School of Theatre & Dance: Courses: Acting for Change and Dance, Race & Gender.

Her career began on Regional stages and expanded to mass media entertainment conglomerates, classrooms, production tables and research labs.

In 2024, Savannah was contracted as a theatre facilitator with FLOOAT (Florida OCD, Autistm and Anxiety Treatment Center). She has been hired as an actor in The Hipp Unplugged’s Pride staged readings of Dike and Saint Brigid, as Actor 5 in Ebeneezer’s Big Gainesville Christmas Show, and as Margaret in Silent Sky.

Savannah has published two articles in The Journal of Applied Arts & Health and The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum.

At UFHealth’s Center for Arts in Medicine, she was a contracted Artist in Residence, and in Brooklyn, NY, she taught Acting I, II, & III at Acting Out.

She served 8 years as the full time Dance Captain & Soprano 2 with Universal Studios, Diagon Alley: Celestina Warbeck & The Banshees, and internationally, she performed and directed with RWS Entertainment Group at Iberostar Resorts in Cancun, Mexico.

During her time at UF Health’s Center for Arts in Medicine, Vee facilitated Theatre Connect, an arts program for LGBTQIA+ youth & young adults, and the Dance in Medicine Community Program. She was also a research assistant on the CAM Research Lab and Manuscript Review Committee.

Savannah is professionally experienced in Shakespearean text, Brechtian Epic Theatre, Commedia dell’arte, Boal’s Forum Theatre, Intimacy Direction (IDC), The Lucid Body technique and Live Entertainment.

Her cat is a gentle friend & her family holds her heart.

Performance Artist

Arts Educator

Published Researcher

BRAVO Award Winner

Forum Theatre Practitioner

Program Manager

Choreographer, Producer, & Creator

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it.”

-Bertolt Brecht