I have come to playwriting after exploring various community and fringe festival theatre productions, and as a parent of music theatre kids—now grown. My passion dates to my first playscript and production of “Trial and Error” in 1985 as an undergraduate at the University of Miami and at Tel Aviv University, where many of the characters for my current works were born as protagonists in short stories. It was only after I completed a 10-minute play manuscript workshop at the DC JCC in 2018, interacted with other emerging playwrights, and heard the script read aloud by professional actors, that I fully appreciated why my stories were meant for the stage. Discovering, reimagining and adapting the treasures of Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Ladino, Arabic, Spanish and English language Jewish story-telling and folklore has proven to be personally uplifting at this precarious historic moment where many are feeling marginalized, otherized or threatened. My plays are meant to be shared with general audiences of friends and fellow travelers of all faiths, lapsed faiths or no faiths.