ABOUT ME

Home is the Berkshire hills, in western Massachusetts.

I play with language, subtext, embedded rhyme, the rhythms of speech and silence. Suburbia is a familiar landscape, as is Mexico (where I’ve lived and extensively traveled); faith, both found and lost; existential dread; concealed truth; the longing for connection. Oh, and humor. Always the patter of humor.

I  live in western Massachusetts and am a working member of the Full Length Play Lab at New Perspectives Theatre, NYC, a theatre committed to gender and racial representation. This May, a first draft of my full-length play, THE VILLAGE BEAUTIFUL , was read at New Perspectives and will be followed by a revised version in November (Teresa Fischer, Dir.).  Another full-length, MY OWN FLESH AND BLOOD, received a professional staged reading in Hudson, NY. (Michelle Joyner, Dir.) My 45-minute one-act, OUR LADY OF BROAD STREET, was developed at New Perspectives and performed as part of the Road Theatre’s Summer 2021 Playwrights Festival (Susan Vanita Diol, Dir.), and was selected for performance at Festival de Theatro Alternative in Bogotá, Colombia (Melody Brooks, Dir).  THE MARROW IN THE BONE, a 45-minute musical exploring the relationship between a serf and an aristocrat on the eve of the Russian revolution, was workshopped in NYC (Tara Elliot, Dir.) I AM YOU ARE WE WERE received a staged reading as part of Berkshire Voices (Joe Cacaci, Dir.) Additional credits include Tiny_Theatre Summer Shorts, Capital Region 24-Hour Theatre Project at the University at Albany, Boston Theatre Marathon, Philadelphia Primary Stages, Curio Theatre (Philadelphia),  and Made in the Berkshires Festival. From 2013-2020, I was a Playwright-in-Residence for Barrington Stage Company's Playwright Mentoring Project, a collaboration of theater artists and under-served teens.  Professional affiliations: Playwrights’ Center, Honor Roll! (an “advocacy and action group of women+ playwrights over 40). I am also the author of three YA novels with HarperCollins and a board book for Workman Publishers.