In 2019, only two years after joining the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama as an Associate Professor, Weild was named Chair of Directing for the John Wells Directing Program where she supervises and mentors MFA and BFA directing candidates. In recognition of her artistic leadership and impact as an educator, she received indefinite tenure in 2022; was honored with the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Excellence in Teaching Award in 2025; and was promoted to full Professor with indefinite tenure in 2026. Deeply committed to creating professional pathways for emerging artists, she has forged partnerships for her students with Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), Drama League, and theaters across the united states and around the world.
Prior to CMU, she was a Visiting Professor for two years at Wesleyan University where she taught directing and acting. She spent five years on faculty at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Theater Institute and The Einhorn School of Performing Arts at Primary Stages in New York City.
Alongside her faculty leadership, Weild leads workshops and intensives in Shakespeare, Access Aesthetics, and new play directing while coaching directors and actors at every stage of their artistic development. She is trained in Stanislavsky based acting techniques, Viewpoints, Composition, Suzuki and Linklater. Over the course of her career, she has taught at leading graduate and undergraduate theater programs nationwide, including, Columbia University, Yale University, Barnard College, The Kennedy Center, The O'Neill Center's National Theater Institute, Fordham University, Atlantic Theater School, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, National Theater Workshop of the Handicapped, New Actors Workshop, California Institute of the Arts, UC Irvine, University of Houston, Cal State Fullerton, CalState Riverside and La Jolla Playhouse among many others. She has also trained and collaborated with theater companies including Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago), One Year Lease Theater Company (NY and Greece), Burning Wheel (LA), About Productions (LA), Sowelu Ensemble (Portland, Ore) and Integrity Productions (Portland, Ore).
With nearly thirty years of teaching experience, Weild remains steadfastly committed to the training and development of the next generation of ethical, visionary artist-leaders who understand and honor the transformative power of collaborative storytelling. She challenges and empowers directing students to dream big, take bold risks, and embrace the possibility of failure on a grand scale as an essential part of artistic growth and discovery. Through rigorous critical inquiry, in depth text analysis, hands-on experimentation, and practical application, she develops directors who versatile in technique, grounded in discipline, curiostiy, innovative, and compassion - revolutionary artist-leaders for the 21st century.
Upon graduation, her directing students pursue paths as distinctive and unique as they are, entering the profession with confidence and enduring sense of creative possibility.
