I can tell a good story.
An award-winning actor-writer, my plays include BUZZ (Dir. Carrie Preston; World Premiere, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Nominated, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Winner, Hidden River Playwriting Award; Winner, Reverie Next Generation Playwriting Award; Developmental readings with Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company and New York Theatre Workshop; Finalist, Baltic Writing Residency (Brora, Scotland); Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award); THE MACHINE (Global Age Finalist); THE SILVER KITCHEN PLAY (Dir. Carrie Preston, development, artist-in-residence, Actors Theatre of Louisville and FRANK, developmental reading, Theatre of Note, Dir. Kevin Earley); THE WONDER (Writer/Actor, Dirs. Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley, BEST PRODUCTION, BEST OF THE FESTIVAL...
I can tell a good story.
An award-winning actor-writer, my plays include BUZZ (Dir. Carrie Preston; World Premiere, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Nominated, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Winner, Hidden River Playwriting Award; Winner, Reverie Next Generation Playwriting Award; Developmental readings with Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company and New York Theatre Workshop; Finalist, Baltic Writing Residency (Brora, Scotland); Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award); THE MACHINE (Global Age Finalist); THE SILVER KITCHEN PLAY (Dir. Carrie Preston, development, artist-in-residence, Actors Theatre of Louisville and FRANK, developmental reading, Theatre of Note, Dir. Kevin Earley); THE WONDER (Writer/Actor, Dirs. Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley, BEST PRODUCTION, BEST OF THE FESTIVAL International United Solo Festival; Nominated for both the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award and the William Saroyan Human Rights/Social Justice Award, terraNova’s New Play Series), THE FALL (chosen, Pioneer Theatre’s Play-by-Play Series; The Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series Staged Reading; Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), SUICIDE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, and PEASANT (Writer/Actor, Dir. Dale Heinen), among many. My TV pilots include FOGGIA, BETWEEN HELL AND THE BIG EMPTY (co-written with Teresa Harrison), MEAN SECRETARIES and HALF LIGHT. My screenplay THE FALL (based on my play of the same name) is currently in indie-film pre-production, directed by Julie Ann Emery and starring Carrie Preston. Also co-writing a young adult novel called VIRAGO with Julie Ann Emery. I have been seen onstage in Chicago, New York and other lovely places. My web and tv work includes the ONION NEWS NETWORK and the award-winning web series THEN WE GOT HELP (written and directed by Julie Ann Emery). Proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, Dramatists Guild and alumna of terraNova Groundbreakers. Member of both the Actors Studio Playwrights Division (2021-Present) and Rattlestick Theater’s Actors Who Write Lab.