THEATER BIO

I’ve written for theater, film, radio, opera and musical theater,
mime, street theater, and dance-theater.

THEATERS, PRODUCED OR WORKSHOPPED

Yale Rep
Victory Gardens
Walnut Street Theater
Magic Bride
Moving Arts
Interact Theatre Company
Yale Cabaret Hollywood
Black Dahlia
Colony Theatre
Long Beach Studio Theatre
Capital Fringe

Sundance Playwrights Lab
Asian Theatre Workshop, Mark Taper Forum
Up ‘Ere Productions
Orange Tree Theatre
Ashland New Plays Festival
Towne Street Theatre
NAACP Theatre Festival
Ojai Theatre
Urban Stages
New York Fringe Festival

FULL LENGTH PLAYS

The Hiroshima Daughter
One Good Tree 
Sleeping With the Dead
Colors at Sunset
A God By Another Name

Olympic Notions & Supply
Luke's Dad
Reckoning Angel
A Greenhouse Determination
Symphony Pastorale

ONE ACT PLAYS

Playing with Matches
A Day At The Museum
Social Science
Ye Olde Miracle Play of the Nativity
Morning Tea

Home Movies
Solo
Session
Four Straight Women Watching Gay Porn

DANCE THEATRE & OPERA

As Playwright in Residence with Danceteller, I collaborated on three dance theater performance works including Before Forever, based on interviews with people living with HIV. Before Forever was performed mid-Atlantic states and in San Francisco. People’s Friendship Theatre of Moscow sponsored a Russian-American adaptation of Before Forever, which toured Russia and Lithuania.

I also wrote and directed the nationally broadcast radio drama The Story of Crazy Nora, which was the basis for my opera libretto Crazy Nora (excerpts broadcast on WHY).

MEMBERSHIP, HONORS

I am a member of the Dramatists Guild and a founder of Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP).

Recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council Fellowship and a Yaddo Arts Residency, and member of the A.S.K. Playwright-Composer Studio.

Plays have received two L.A. Dramalogue Awards, voted Audience Favorite, Towne Street Theatre, shortlisted, HighTide Festival Theatre, and semi-finalist, National Playwrights Conference.

PRODUCING, DIRECTING, DRAMATURGY

Producing Director, Yale Cabaret Hollywood for five years. Productions included site-specific adaptation of Brecht’s BAAL, gender-swap Taming the Shrew, and the punk rock musical rocksong (also directed). Produced L.A.'92 — Three Plays/Three Voices, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 10th anniversary of the 1992 L.A. Riots, including my play Olympic Notions & Supply. Directed multiple readings and workshops of my own plays and other writers.

Damaturged numerous productions as Producing Director, Yale Cabaret Hollywood as well as elsewhere. Currently dramaturg for opera For Whom the Bell Tolls, based onHemingway novel, scheduled for production in Brasília February 2026. Directed reading of libretto at National Opera Center.

TEACHING

Taught playwriting at Philadelphia Theatre Company, and South Jersey Regional High School; Directing Actors, Art Center College, Pasadena; youth theater classes in China, Ghana, and India; mentoring, Ringling College of Art and Design.

CURRENT/FUTURE PROJECTS

  • Part of the creative/production team as dramaturg for opera FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS scheduled for production in Brasília in February 2026.

  • Find composer/lyricist team & co-book writer for GRAB THE SUN! a resetting of LYSISTRATA in an inner city high school as a backstager.

  • Adapt the movie IT HAPPENED ON NIGHT for a musical North To New York, recasting the story of a spoiled heiress thrown in with everyday people seeking a new start in the Depression.

  • Find co-book writer and composer/lyricist team to create 1001, a fresh musical take on the 1001 Nights, reimagining the story from Scheherazade’s perspective, marrying King Shahryar to save the lives of women, only to fall in love with the man she hates, discovering his deep hurt of betrayal through her storytelling.

  • The Duchess, a verse adaptation of Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, reset in a South American dictatorship.