Trina has spent many hours in the theater with professional, school, and community theater groups. She has played roles including Kate Keller in The Miracle Worker, Norma in Visitor from Forest Hill, The Nurse in Romeo and Juliet and Flora in Tennessee Williams’ 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. As a director, her productions with Bridgeport High School Thespian Troupe #7549, The Lovers of Verona, Medea, Bury the Dead, Star-Crossed Lovers, Elephant’s Graveyard, The Girl in the White Pinafore, & The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Tough City, Prone To Rain all won first place regional titles and advanced to state-level competitions where many were honored as the state’s Outstanding One Act. Trina is currently the director of the young artist troupe Actor’s Producing Imagination (A.P.I.) at the Altered Production’s Institute (API) otherwise known as API API. In addition to her work with API API she is also the artistic director at Bridgeport High School Theatre and she works with many community, high school,  and college theatres in our area.