2017
October. Teaching, leading Improv & Stage Combat Seminar for Marietta Leadership Board.
September. "Best New Work (Theatre for Young Audiences)" Award Nomination for The Dancing Handerchief (Suzi Bass Awards)
September. Directing a workshop + staged reading of Keester by Pamela Turner at Out of Box Theatre.
Fall. Teaching as Assistant Professor of Theatre in Society with Kennesaw State University's Dept. of Theatre & Performance Studies.
August. Directing The Complete History of America (abridged) at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center.
August. Teaching 5-hour workshops in Unarmed Stage Combat, Playwriting, Directing the Play, Building a Character, & Discovering the Play at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center.
July. Directing reading of Daniel Glenn's THE LAKES.
July. Teaching two 3-hr workshops for Earl Smith Strand's Theatre Intensive: Physical Theatre & Unarmed Stage Combat.
June. Directing Horizon Theatre's Apprentice Company Showcase in Atlanta, GA.
June. Breakout Director for Coca-Cola's 2018 NFSOP National Sales Meeting.
May. Assistant Directing The Dancing Handkerchief (Adam Koplan, Dir.), co-produced by Theatrical Outfit & Flying Carpet Theatre Company
May. Graduating from University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Theatre, with a Master of Fine Arts in Directing (Theatre)
May. Corey is awarded Outstanding Graduate Student Award from the USM College of Arts & Letters
April. Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Nomination--Region IV SDC Student Director Nominee for The Crucible
April. Directing M.F.A. thesis production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.
2015/2016
July 2016. Assistant Directing Staged Reading of Occupants by Mauricio Miranda (Cynthia Levin, director), for M.F.A. Playwrights Workshop @ Kennedy Center
July 2016. Participating in Summer Directing Intensive @ Kennedy Center, led by Mark Routhier
January 2016. Directing Workshop & Staged Reading of Danielle Dresden's Athena, Live! with the playwright in residence with USM Blaine Quarnstrom Playwriting Series
April 2015 Participating in the KCACTF National Festival in Washington, D.C. as an invited SDC National Directing Fellow