About

“We all take some wrong turns, that’s how we get where we’re going.”

- Aunt Leona A CAPPELLA

Not wrong - circuitous maybe. I grew up in Rochester, NY, but I’ve lived in Atlanta long enough to miss snow. A BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University; a sculpture studio in The Torpedo Factory outside of Washington, DC; graduate studies in Writing for Art History at the Art Institute of Chicago. I moved to Atlanta and into Advertising (the Portfolio Center, now the Miami Ad School). I had a career as an art director while raising two strong girls. Their fearlessness inspired me to bring my writing out of the drawer and onto the stage. While writing in other people’s voices, I found my own.

My work has been in theaters and festivals around the country; Australia and Germany. as well, and now Zoom. Additional workshops, readings, seminars, etc: ASCAP/NY; NMI/ New Musicals Inc, LA; CTI/Commercial Theater Inst.; TRU/Theatre Resources Unltd; NYMF/New York Musical Festival; TYA /One Theater World; Dramatists Guild Institute; Alliance Theatre, Horizon Theatre, CreateTheater

Member of Dramatists Guild, Inc.; Working Title Playwrights; TRU/Theatre Resources Unlimited; CreateTheater ETC; TCG/Theatre Communications Group; Alliance of Jewish Theaters;  TYA/ Theatre for Young Audiences

Alliance Theatre - Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab *The Reiser Lab is a nationally competitve and panel adjudicated award from the Tony Award winning Alliance Theatre, with a $10,000 prize.

New York Musical Festival / NYMF ‘15 and ‘09

Multiple NYMF Awards for A CAPPELLA

Steele Springs Stage Rights Publishing Awards

Eugene O’Neill Semi-finalist

Susan Blackburn Prize Nominee

ATHE Award - Ass’n Theatre Higher Education

Dorothy Chambers Award

National Pen Ass’n/ Atlanta - Playwright of the Year

Essential Theatre Playwriting Award

MAT - Metropolitan Atlanta Theatre Award for Best New Work

Atlanta Opera 24 Hour Opera Projects - Multiple Awards

Anna Sosenko Grants for New Musicals

Playwrights & Writers - Playwrights And Grant

Working Title Playwrights Ethel Woolson Lab recipient