Heidi is a New York based theater artist dedicated to creating new work and discovering new approaches to classical literature and theater.
Mrs. Christie: Theatreworks, Dorset Theatre Festival, Primary Stages (workshop), Orchard Project (residency). Dairyland: Playmakers Rep, Chautauqua Theater Festival, and workshops at Playhouse on Park, Primary Stages, The Lark, Luna Stage. Scarecrow: Dorset Theatre Festival, Vermont Public Theater, Next Act (2024), Weidner Center (2024). Murder Girl: Forward Theatre Company (2024), workshops at Page 73 (2024), TAP, Kansas City Rep. Heidi was commissioned by Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival to adapt Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which will premiere in their 2024 season. Heidi was a member of the Working Farm at Space on Ryder Farm, Page 73 Interstate Writers, and a founding member of Dorset Theatre Festival’s Women Artists Writing. As an actress, Heidi has extensive theater, film, and TV credits; most notably recurring as Noelle on Manifest, Karen on Partner Track, and Michelle on Younger.
Heidi’s solo show “Scarecrow” will receive its world premiere in the summer of 2022 at Dorset Theatre Festival after having been workshopped at Dorset during the summer of 2021. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival has commissioned Heidi to adapt “The Murder oF Roger Ackroyd” and has workshopped it as part of their summer development season. Heidi’s play “Dairyland” was premiered at Playmakers Rep in the fall of 2019 under the direction of Vivienne Benesch after being workshopped at Playhouse on Park, Primary Stages ESPADrills, The Lark, Red Fern Theater, Luna Stage, and was selected as the New Play Workshop at The Chautauqua Theater Festival in 2014. “Mrs. Christie” received its world premiere at Dorset Theatre Festival in 2019. It was developed in workshops at Primary Stages in Spring of 2019, with DTFWAW, and at residencies at The Orchard Project in 2016 and 2018. Heidi’s play “Murder Girl” has been workshopped recently by Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Red Caravan and The Playwriting Collective. In 2015, Heidi was a member of Space on Ryder Farm’s resident writers group, The Working Farm. “Every Good Girl Deserves Fun (and other misremembered things),” a commission from Clutch Productions, was produced in New York in the fall of 2015 at Walker Space. Later titled, “Where the I Divides,” it was recently read by San Francisco’s ReACT. Her short play “Purgatory” was read as part of Red Bull Theater’s First 2011 Short Play Festival and published by Smith and Kraus in their “Best Ten Minute Plays of 2013” anthology and then re-released in the “Red Bull Shorts Anthology.” “Miss Angela’s Legitimate Home for Women Living in Sin” was performed as part of the ESPA short play series “Detention” at Jimmy’s 43 and is available on Indie Theater Now.