I write plays. About current topics. About women. About passionate, obsessed people. I write about the dissonance between the public and the private.
As Covid transformed in-person workshops into Zoom spaces, I found myself playwriting full-time with national silent writing sessions hosted by Dramatists Guild and the London Writers Salon. I joined the Dozen Daring Dramas project, hosted by The Literal Challenge, and wrote a play a month to a prompt in 2021.
I came to playwriting late, but in the last 15 or so years I’ve written 16 full length and many short plays. I’ve been encouraged by some success. I received a Kaufman Award for “Little Images,” about Lee Krasner, which had several stage readings. “The Beekeeper,” about Dr. Sidney Farber and childhood leukemia, was a National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist. “The Fourth Estate” was part of the NYC International Fringe Festival. My plays have had New York City stage readings at Julia’s Reading Room, Cherry Lane Theatre, New World Stages, Hudson Guild Theatre, Equity Library Theatre, Thirteenth Street Theatre, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage. I am a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, the American Renaissance Theatre Company, Playwrights Gallery, and the London Writers Salon.
I am perpetually curious about deviations, by characters who step outside of expectations and norms. In “Costa Rica,” an absurdist comedy, my protagonist, hallucinating and on heavy medication, decides to visit Costa Rica alone, to turn back time and explore her rejected options 30 years later. In “The Insurgent,” the protagonist leaves a prominent medical career to do the impossible, battle a hopeless cancer, only to be labeled a quack and a child killer. In “Delilah and Solstice,” Delilah has fallen in love with a chronically unfaithful man, and, like Scheherazade, she must entertain him to keep him. In “Little Images,” the protagonist, a promising young artist, swore never to marry. Then she meets another painter, intuitive and brilliant, whose alcoholism demands her attention. She refuses to compromise; she wants it all
My recent activities include a live reading of “Trem,” 2025, a sci-fi romance set in a dystopia; a Zoom reading of “The Autobiography of Currer Bell,” 2023, a feminist adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” set in America; and "Eva Le Gallienne and the Women's Studies Intervention," live streamed in 2022 in Crossways Theatre’s 5th Annual Women’s Festival.
I am a voting member of Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and the American Theatre Critics Association. I have been teaching at FIT, SUNY, since 1987. Ph.D., 1992.
As Covid transformed in-person workshops into Zoom spaces, I found myself playwriting full-time with national silent writing sessions hosted by Dramatists Guild and the London Writers Salon. I joined the Dozen Daring Dramas project, hosted by The Literal Challenge, and wrote a play a month to a prompt in 2021.
I came to playwriting late, but in the last 15 or so years I’ve written 16 full length and many short plays. I’ve been encouraged by some success. I received a Kaufman Award for “Little Images,” about Lee Krasner, which had several stage readings. “The Beekeeper,” about Dr. Sidney Farber and childhood leukemia, was a National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist. “The Fourth Estate” was part of the NYC International Fringe Festival. My plays have had New York City stage readings at Julia’s Reading Room, Cherry Lane Theatre, New World Stages, Hudson Guild Theatre, Equity Library Theatre, Thirteenth Street Theatre, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage. I am a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, the American Renaissance Theatre Company, Playwrights Gallery, and the London Writers Salon.
I am perpetually curious about deviations, by characters who step outside of expectations and norms. In “Costa Rica,” an absurdist comedy, my protagonist, hallucinating and on heavy medication, decides to visit Costa Rica alone, to turn back time and explore her rejected options 30 years later. In “The Insurgent,” the protagonist leaves a prominent medical career to do the impossible, battle a hopeless cancer, only to be labeled a quack and a child killer. In “Delilah and Solstice,” Delilah has fallen in love with a chronically unfaithful man, and, like Scheherazade, she must entertain him to keep him. In “Little Images,” the protagonist, a promising young artist, swore never to marry. Then she meets another painter, intuitive and brilliant, whose alcoholism demands her attention. She refuses to compromise; she wants it all
My recent activities include a live reading of “Trem,” 2025, a sci-fi romance set in a dystopia; a Zoom reading of “The Autobiography of Currer Bell,” 2023, a feminist adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” set in America; and "Eva Le Gallienne and the Women's Studies Intervention," live streamed in 2022 in Crossways Theatre’s 5th Annual Women’s Festival.
I am a voting member of Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and the American Theatre Critics Association. I have been teaching at FIT, SUNY, since 1987. Ph.D., 1992.