Playwright

Playwright’s Resumé

A SIRI-OUS SITUATION, was produced as part of The 9th Annual InspiraTO Festival Toronto, Canada,  May-June of 2014

ON THE TURNPIKE , a short play studio performance as part of Plays and Prestidigitation 5,  Polaris North,    2014

HURRICANE SANDY (poem) was the finale of the show NY LADIES,  WOMEN WHO WRITE WITH WIT, The Hudson Guild, 2013

TIT FOR TSA-T, a short play, studio performance as part of Plays and Prestidigitation 3, Polaris North, 2013, reading at Lower East Side Festival 2011.

DUST, a one-act play, 2008, revised 2011-2012. Staged reading at Polaris North 2012

JUST FOR TODAY a one-act play 2012. Staged reading at Polaris North 2012

INDIRA, a full length play 2014.

DELHI DUO, a one act play produced March 1995 at Theater for the New City

VULCANIC SURRENDER, a one- act play produced March 1995 at Theater for the New City

NATIONAL GESTATION, a one act play, semi-finalist in the Impossible Play Festival at the Castillo Center, 1989

ON THE ROAD TO HOLENESS, a full length comedy/drama produced May 1990 at Theater for the New City, listed in The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989-1990: featuring the ten best plays of the season

THE ROSY CAVE. a full length comedy/drama , produced February 1988 at Theater for the New City

Ten minute comic plays include:

A SIRI-OUS SITUATION, finalist in the 9th annual Theatre InspiraTO Festival, produced, Toronto, Canada 2014

PALAK PANEER

PICK AND PRICK

FRIGHT OR FLIGHT

THE BOOSTERS

THE PET SITTERS

ON THE TURNPIKE

THE CLEARING, staged reading at the Lower East Festival May 2013.

THE TRANSFER STUDENT, staged reading The Lower East Side Festival, May 2012

HIGH COLONIC MOUNTAIN, staged reading Lower East Side Festival, May 2010

THE WORLD TRADE CENTER MEDICAL MORONIC PROGRAM, staged reading, Lower East Side Festival, May 2007.

Author of numerous comedy sketches performed by Outta Control & Out the Window at The Westbank Café, Trocadero, Steve Mcgraws, the Duplex, Rose’s Turn,(1991-2000) THE LEGACY,  Sande Shurin Studios, 2002.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of the Dramatist Guild (since 1986)

Member of Polaris North (since 2012)

FILM :Author of the screenplay Artemis, (1992)

DIRECTOR

Production of Delhi Duo, Theater for the New City, March 1995.

Reading of Margaret Sanger, A Woman Rebel, by Jessica Feder Birnbaum, Hunter College Playhouse, July 1990.

Reading of On the Road to Holeness, Our Studios, July 1989.

Reading of The Rosy Cave. Polaris, April 1986.

Readings of Dust, Just For Today, October 2012.

Performances of numerous comedy sketches and 10 minute plays

EDUCATION b.a. Queens College, majored in psychology, also heavy concentration in theatre/dance, cum laude with honors in psychology Licensed massage therapist (graduate of the Swedish Institute for Massage)

Studied playwrighting with Dick Longchamps, HB Studios and

Tina Howe, Einhorn School of Performing Arts

Attended The Citywrights Conference, 2013.

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