View my resumeI am a playwright and actor living in Brooklyn, New York.
My plays have been presented at The Barrow Group, The Kennedy Center, Bay Street Theatre, Theater J, Phoenix Theatre, Vital Theater, Theater of the First Amendment, and Working Theater, among others.
Honey Brown Eyes (Kennedy Center, Theater J) won the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play or Musical and was published in the February 2009 issue of American Theatre Magazine. It was a finalist for the 2007 Smith Prize, and a semi-finalist for the 2008 Princess Grace Award.
Save Me received the Baltimore Playwrights Festival Carol Weinberg Award for best new play, and won the Phoenix Theatre’s National Playwriting Competition. It was a Cherry Lane Mentor Project nominee/finalist, Jane Bingham Award finalist, and Futurefest finalist.
The Electric Baby was presented at The Working Theater, then workshopped in The First Light Discovery Program at Theatre of the First Amendment in Washington, D.C. My collaborative work includes The Fear Project (The Barrow Group) and 167 Tongues (Jackson Rep).
My short plays have been produced in numerous festivals around the country, and published in two PlaySource anthologies.
I received both a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and the Susannah McCorkle Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers Conference, and was honored with The Barrow Group Award for artistic contribution to the company.
This fall I will begin a one year Dramatists Guild Fellowship and a two-year tenure in The Women's Project Lab, and am a core member of the writer ensemble for Theater 167. A member of the Dramatists Guild and The Barrow Group, I also teach playwriting workshops in New York City.
I received a BA in Theater and English from Connecticut College (Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude), and live in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn with my husband and twin sons.