ABOUT ME

• Subtext. Embedded rhyme. The rhythms of speech and silence.

• Suburbia. Cities. Latin America. f

• Faith, both found and lost; existential dread; concealed truth. Connection.

• And humor. Always the patter of humor.

JULY 2025: I was privileged to conduct a playwrighting workshop at SOLA, a boarding school in Rwanda for Afghani girls. The entire school, which had opened in Kabul in 2018, fled to Africa in 2021, when the Taliban descended. Among the human rights violations imposed upon women and girls is the edict prohibiting education beyond 6th grade. For additional information, please check out this 60 Minutes profile of the school: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=60+mimutes-+sola

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I  live in western Massachusetts and am a working member of the Full Length Play Lab at New Perspectives Theatre, NYC, a theatre committed to gender and racial representation. THE VILLAGE BEAUTIFUL, is currently in develpment at New Perspectives Theatre Company. A few other highlights: MY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD received a professional staged reading in Hudson, NY. (Michelle Joyner, Dir.) A 45-minute one-act, OUR LADY OF BROAD STREET, was also developed at New Perspectives and performed as part of the Road Theatre’s Summer 2021 Playwrights Festival (Susan Vanita Diol, Dir.), and was selected for performance at Festival de Theatro Alternative in Bogotá, Colombia (Melody Brooks, Dir).  THE MARROW IN THE BONE, a 45-minute musical exploring the relationship between a serf and an aristocrat on the eve of the Russian revolution, was workshopped in NYC (Tara Elliot, Dir.) I AM YOU ARE WE WERE received a staged reading as part of Berkshire Voices (Joe Cacaci, Dir.) Additional credits include: Spring ‘25 Finalist @ Moonbox Productions, Workshop Theatre Winter Intensive, Tiny_Theatre Summer Shorts, Capital Region 24-Hour Theatre Project at the University at Albany, Boston Theatre Marathon, Philadelphia Primary Stages, Curio Theatre (Philadelphia),  and Made in the Berkshires Festival. From 2013-2020, I was a Playwright-in-Residence for Barrington Stage Company's Playwright Mentoring Project, a collaboration of theater artists and under-served teens.  Professional affiliations: Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll! (an “advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over 40). I am also the author of three YA novels with HarperCollins and a board book for Workman Publishers.