Beth's words for theatre have won her the Director’s Choice Award (NYMF), the National Art Song competition, Jonathan Larson and NAMT grants, the Klinsky Award for excellence in musical theatre (2econd Stage), the GBH Lyricist Award (the O’Neill), and fellowships from The Dramatists’ Guild and America-In-Play. Her songs and shows have been performed at the Kennedy Center, the United Nations and Lincoln Center, as well as across the US, Asia and Europe.

Beth’s musical The Mistress Cycle (music Jenny Giering) was produced in New York, London, and twice in Chicago, where it received multiple Jeff Award nominations. Island of the Blue Dolphins (music also by Jenny Giering) was commissioned by TheatreWorks USA and toured the US. Beth also received the first-ever commission from The Village Theatre for the musical Oneida. In 2017, she was commissioned to write a musical about the iconic politician and activist Bella Abzug.

Development/residencies include the Johnny Mercer Writers’ Colony (Goodspeed), the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Sundance (UCross), the O’Neill, Theatre Works Palo Alto, Goodspeed Musical Theatre, Queens University (Belfast), Running Deer. Princess Caraboo (book Marsha Norman, music Jenny Giering, director Gary Griffin) was presented at NAMT. Oneida was presented in development at the Village Theatre Festival of New Musicals, Vox Fest (Hanover, NH) and Music Theatre of Connecticut.

Beth’s short play Take It Down was selected for the Catherine Lindsey Playwrights Workshop (Darien CT). Her short play Strings was presented as part of Take Ten at the Players Club, and On Its Chimney was staged at Lucky Jack’s (New York City).

Beth co-conceived and created the play “In Her Words” based on interviews with refugee women. It was sponsored by the League of Professional Theatre Women at the Dramatists Guild, with partnership from refugee-support organizations Amnesty International and Women for Women International.

Beth is also the founder of Hope Sings, the for-benefit music business whose mission is to harness the power of song and story to support women. Notable projects include the anthem for UN Women, the first-ever anthem for a UN agency, which she produced and for which she wrote the lyric.

Beth has taught Musical Theatre Songwriting at Adelphi University and is the co-founder of the Musical Theatre Writers’ Group at the Music Theatre of CT. She is a past member of the BMI/Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, a current member of the Dramatists’ Guild and the League of Professional Theatre Women. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College.