I recently retired after thirty years as a professor of law at the University of Utah. I have been involved in theater since high school, and worked for a few years in theater full-time before going to law school. For the last twenty years, my theater life has been focused on playwriting.
I was born in Chicago and grew up in the northwest suburbs. I majored in theatre arts at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where I focused on acting and directing. After college, I was a teaching assistant in the theatre department at Beloit for a year, and then spent a year as a full-time company member at the New American Theatre in Rockford, Illinois.
After becoming a law professor, I again became involved in professional and semi-professional theatre in Salt Lake City. I enjoyed some success here as an actress, including roles at Salt Lake Acting Company, and I directed a couple of shows, but eventually discovered that I was more drawn to writing plays.