REPORTER GIRL (working title)
  1. •Finalist, Princess Grace Fellowship, 2006
  2. •Semi-Finalist, O’Neill Playwriting Conference, 2006
  3. •Official selection, Diva Festival, Exit Theatre, San Francisco, 2006, Dir. Adriana Baer
  4. •Staged Reading, Second Stage Theatre, 2006. Dir. Patricia McGregor, Directing Fellow
  5. •Weissberger Award Nomination, Michael Parva, Directors Company, 2005
  6. •Staged reading at MoCCA, NYC, May 2005, directed by Li Murillo
  7. •Staged reading, Estrogenius Benefit, at Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC 2004
  8. •Developmental Workshop with Etc. Theatre Company, NYC 2004,  directed by Li Murillo
  9. •Staged reading at the American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, 2003
 
My LIFE AS YOU
  1. •Extended production, Producers Club II, NYC, 2006. Featuring Jeff Branson from All My Children
  2. •Workshop production, Producers Club, NYC, 2006 dir. Fritz Brekeller
  3. •Finalist, Playwrights First Award, 2005
  4. •Produced as developmental workshop at Creative Place Theatre, NYC, May 2002

Selected List of One Act Plays
Below 14th (dark comedy, 20 minutes)
  1. •Official Selection, Lost Theatre Festival, London, England, 2006 dir. Jamie Ramsburg
  2. •Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival, American Theater of Actors, NYC 2005
  3. •AEA Showcase of Babies, Bombs and Love at American Theater of Actors, NYC 2005
  4. •Workshop as part of the RCL Writers Group
 
without (drama, 40 minutes)
  1. •Official Selection, Rising Sun Theatre Company’s One-Act series, Under St. Marks, NYC, 2006
  2. •Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival, ATA, NYC, 2004 dir. Jamie Ramsburg
  3. •Produced at Manhattan Theatre Source as part of “Two Guys and a Girl” evening, NYC, 2004
  4. •Workshop at the Actors Studio Drama School’s Playwrights and Directors Lab, NYC, 2003
 
Elevator Secret Thoughts (dark comedy, 10 minutes)
Semi-Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival, ATA, NYC, 2006 dir. Fritz Brekeller
Starring: Jeff Branson, Kelli Giddish and Collin Eggelsfield, from the cast of ALL MY CHILDREN
 
feisty pussy (comedy, 7 minutes)
  1. •Semi-Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival at ATA, NYC, 2006 dir. Denyse Owens
  2. •“Favorite Play” Designation, Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC 2005
  3. •Official Selection, Native Aliens Theatre Collective’s Short Stories Five Festival, NYC 2003
  4. •Originally produced by Manhattan Theatre Source as part of the “48-hour Plays” Festival, NYC 2002
 
He Says His Name is John (drama, 22 minutes)
  1. •RCL Workshop, March 2007
  2. •Official Selection, Samuel French One Act Competition, June 2007
 
the miracle (dramatic comedy, 45 minutes)
Produced by Love Creek Productions at Creative Place Theatre, NYC, October 2001
 
Nose Job #3 (comedy, 7 minutes)
Produced at Creative Place Theatre, “9x9” Festival with the New School/Actors Studio, NYC, 2003
 
The Witch of Ile St. Louis  ( dark comedy, 15 minutes)
Produced at Creative Place Theatre, “9x9” Festival with the New School/Actors Studio, NYC, 2003

Awards and Accomplishments
Reporter Girl – Finalist, Princess Grace Fellowship, 2006
Reporter Girl – Semi-Finalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, 2006
Reporter Girl, Weissberger Award Nominee, 2005
My Life as You – Finalist, Playwrights First Award, NYC 2005
Below 14th – Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival, NYC, 2005
Without – Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival, NYC 2004
Feisty Pussy – Semi-Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival, NYC 2006
Elevator Secret Thoughts – Semi-Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival, NYC 2006
He Says His Name Is John – Semi-Finalist, Samuel French Short Play Festival, NYC 2007

Commissions and Publications
Spontaneous Combustion – Five short scripts published in an Anthology by Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC 2006. Plays include: Feisty Pussy, The Straight Path, Dolly Comes To Manhattan & How Wars Get Started – all originally produced at Manhattan Theatre Source, NYC
 
plus Boat Plays, Halloween Plays, RCL Writers Group “Upper West Side Plays” slated for production at the Vital Theatre

Education
2005
MFA in Playwriting/Acting, Actors Studio Drama School/New School University
Teachers: Christopher Shinn, Laura-Maria Censabella, James Ryan, Frank Pugalaisee
 
1996
BA in International Relations and French, UC Davis
 
Full Length Plays