I write plays. About current topics. About women. About passionate, obsessed people. I write about the conjunction of 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 international sessions hosted by 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. By November I began to believe in myself. The biannual Playwrights Binge left me no excuse not to send out scripts. 2021 was a busy year. Three poems were published by Calliope in 2021: "A Murder of Crows," The Tamarisks of Crete," and "Today I am Closer."
In 2023, after workshopping scenes and revising, I saw The Autobiography of Currer Bell, with its large cast, on a Zoom reading through Jonathan Samarro's workshop Write Where You Are. In 2024, after returning from a long jaunt to Thailand, I addressed some health problems. Now, in October 2024 I'm working my way back. Seeing and then reviewing Aristophanes' The Birds in the ancient theatre at Epidaurus and my summer on Greek islands have been an incentive.
I hold a Ph.D in Theatre, teach at FIT, SUNY, and review for Plays International and Europe and nyheatre-wire.com.
Proud to be a member of Dramatists Guild, London Writers Salon, Playwrights Gallery, American Renaissance Theatre Company, League of Professional Theatre Women, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle.
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 international sessions hosted by 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. By November I began to believe in myself. The biannual Playwrights Binge left me no excuse not to send out scripts. 2021 was a busy year. Three poems were published by Calliope in 2021: "A Murder of Crows," The Tamarisks of Crete," and "Today I am Closer."
In 2023, after workshopping scenes and revising, I saw The Autobiography of Currer Bell, with its large cast, on a Zoom reading through Jonathan Samarro's workshop Write Where You Are. In 2024, after returning from a long jaunt to Thailand, I addressed some health problems. Now, in October 2024 I'm working my way back. Seeing and then reviewing Aristophanes' The Birds in the ancient theatre at Epidaurus and my summer on Greek islands have been an incentive.
I hold a Ph.D in Theatre, teach at FIT, SUNY, and review for Plays International and Europe and nyheatre-wire.com.
Proud to be a member of Dramatists Guild, London Writers Salon, Playwrights Gallery, American Renaissance Theatre Company, League of Professional Theatre Women, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle.
2019-2020 Highlights
Gideon Poetry First Prize - “The Brutal God” -
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Gideon Poetry - July Issue - “How Do I Begin My Day”
gideonpoetryreview.weebly.com/the-review/archives/07-2019https://gideonpoetryreview.weebly.com/the-review/archives/07-2019
Photographs published in Dec. 2019 Mphasis - “Terrace in Rethymno, Crete” p 13, “Stairs to Chora, Ios,” p 18, “Sculpture of the Bull Dancers, Crete” p 19, “A House in Santorini, Greece” p 20, “Shortcut to Mylopotas Beach, Ios” p 23
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Feb 2020 – Reading of “The Pill And How It Got That Way” Lunar Festival –
St. John’s Lutheran Church, NYC
Feb 2020 - Completed Literary Challenge, 29 Plays in 29 Days
March 2020 – “Fortune Cookie” at NY Winterfest – The Hudson Guild Theater, NYC
gideonpoetryreview.weebly.com/the-review/gideon-poetry-prize-winter-2019-winner
Gideon Poetry - July Issue - “How Do I Begin My Day”
gideonpoetryreview.weebly.com/the-review/archives/07-2019https://gideonpoetryreview.weebly.com/the-review/archives/07-2019
Photographs published in Dec. 2019 Mphasis - “Terrace in Rethymno, Crete” p 13, “Stairs to Chora, Ios,” p 18, “Sculpture of the Bull Dancers, Crete” p 19, “A House in Santorini, Greece” p 20, “Shortcut to Mylopotas Beach, Ios” p 23
documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3Ade041385-a522-4318-b4dd-beb8b6bf3062
Feb 2020 – Reading of “The Pill And How It Got That Way” Lunar Festival –
St. John’s Lutheran Church, NYC
Feb 2020 - Completed Literary Challenge, 29 Plays in 29 Days
March 2020 – “Fortune Cookie” at NY Winterfest – The Hudson Guild Theater, NYC