As an administrator, Mickey provides operational support to Toledo Alliance for the Performing Arts and the International Alliance for Women in Music. The majority of her work falls in project management, database administration, website maintenance, and contracted sales. Before she joined TAPA in 2021, she studied contemporary music performance in the doctoralprogram at Bowling Green State University. There, she coordinated BGSU’s annual interdisciplinary Arts X event, student MicroOperas, and interned as a production assistant on WGTE’s Living Composers: New Music from Bowling Green. Before moving to Ohio, Mickey worked as a marketing associate at Opera Louisiane and interned with board at the Choral Arts Alliance of Missouri.
As an educator, Mickey has taught collegiate courses at Bowling Green State University and Louisiana State University. She served as Instructor of Record for Undergraduate Diction I and II (English, Italian, French, German), Vocal Literature, Vocal Pedagogy, Class Voice for nonmajors, and private instruction. Her doctoral research centers on teaching practices of vocal distortion in opera, theatre, and contemporary commercial music.
As a performer, Mickey loves collaborating in choral, chamber, and operatic spaces. In recent years, her favorite performances include selections from Costello’s The Juliet Letters, Pietho in Soper’s Here Be Sirens, Angelina in Constantinides’ Rosanna in recital at Carnegie Hall, and Voice 2 in Reich’s Tehillim. Her favorite operatic roles have been Anne Truelove in The Rake’s Progress, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and Abigail Williams in The Crucible.
When not at a concert, she enjoys floral design, memes, and Murder She Wrote.
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