In the past almost- 35 years, I’ve made roughly 15 solos and three duets. Highlights include performing Sacrificium Intellectus at the Archetype Gallery in Dayton Ohio, One Don’t Operate Without the Other at Cincinnati Contemporary Dance; Interfacing Joan at the International Theater Festival in El Salvador, and LaMama E.T.C.; White/Man/Fever at Actor’s Theater Louisville’s inaugural Flying Solo Festival, St. Mark’s Danspace and Theatre X Milwaukee; Donkeyskin at the Illusion Theater, Minneapolis; The House of the Mighty Mother at Dance Theater Workshop NYC ; Palaver with Peggy Pettit at PS 122 NYC and Gold with John Fleming at Downtown Arts, Illusion Theater and Antioch College. As an actor, I have performed with several companies and artists including Ann Bogart, Talking Band...
In the past almost- 35 years, I’ve made roughly 15 solos and three duets. Highlights include performing Sacrificium Intellectus at the Archetype Gallery in Dayton Ohio, One Don’t Operate Without the Other at Cincinnati Contemporary Dance; Interfacing Joan at the International Theater Festival in El Salvador, and LaMama E.T.C.; White/Man/Fever at Actor’s Theater Louisville’s inaugural Flying Solo Festival, St. Mark’s Danspace and Theatre X Milwaukee; Donkeyskin at the Illusion Theater, Minneapolis; The House of the Mighty Mother at Dance Theater Workshop NYC ; Palaver with Peggy Pettit at PS 122 NYC and Gold with John Fleming at Downtown Arts, Illusion Theater and Antioch College. As an actor, I have performed with several companies and artists including Ann Bogart, Talking Band, Julie Taymor, Meredith Monk. I’ve worked at the Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theater Workshop, the Joyce Theater, BAM, Theater for a New Audience, Public Theater, Milwaukee Rep, Seattle Group Theater, and in numerous national and international venues. I was a member of Ping Chong and Company for 11 years and continue to collaborate with the Talking Band. My film credits include Gravel, a short by Steven Bognar; and Working Girls, directed by Lizzie Borden.
My awards and honors include a 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Award in Playwriting. As an educator and therapist I was given a 2016 Service Award from the Southeastern Ohio Collaborative for Higher Education and an Employee- of- the- month award at the community mental health agency where I worked in 2008-09. Past awards include a Jerome Fellowship at the Minneapolis Playwright’s Center and another Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Excellence Award for Interdisciplinary Arts.While acting in New York City for sixteen years, I was the recipient of a Bessie Award for Ping Chong’s Brightness in 1992 and in 2004 I won an Obie Award as part of the company of Painted Snake in a Painted Chair by the Talking Band. I have also been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Collaborative Artist Fellowship with Ping Chong for my piece Interfacing Joan. For my part in Working Girls, I was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award at the New York Film Festival. Additional grants include Art Matters, NYSCA, and Franklin Furnace Performance Art Fellowship. In 2019, I performed two new works: DOROTHY LANE: a Travelogue, and THE SYMPATHY OF ALL THINGS- a site specific work at the Agraria for Regenerative Practice. In October, I was in residence at the Corporation of Yaddo.
Education: My B.A. is in theater from Antioch College in 1977. I also studied at The Drama Studio in London for a year while an Antioch student. I studied acting for two years at the William Esper Studio NYC before relocating to Ohio in 1994 to teach. There I got an Independent Masters of Arts in Playwriting at Antioch University in 1998. In 2004 I graduated from University of Dayton with a degree in Community Counseling with clinical licensure, and in 2008 I finished a two -year certificate program at the Jung Institute in Chicago.
Employment: My current position at Antioch College is Associate Professor of Performance. I have had this position for four years. Prior to that, I was Dean of Community Life for three years during the re-opening of the college after its closure in 2008. From 2008-2011 I worked as a mental health therapist in community mental health settings in the cities of Dayton and Springfield Ohio. I still work part time as a therapist in a large private practice in my town. At Antioch I teach classes like Writing and Performing the Self and Improvisation in Art and Life.