Books/Essays/Articles
Bent But Not Broken
A Memoir
Heliotrope Books
Excerpt,
Epiphany Literary Journal, Issue 15
Brooklyn Reading
Works
Revision Workshop,
Yale Writers’ Conference
A Body of Work: The Tour
Essay, Rain Taxi
The Body, the Self, a Book
Essay, Cagibi Express
Whatever Happened to Cousin Mickey?
Short story, Cagibi, Issue 4
A Body of Work: The Tour
Essay, Rain Taxi
The Body, the Self, a Book
Essay, Cagibi Express
Whatever Happened to Cousin Mickey?
Short story, Cagibi, Issue 4
Interview Magazine, Wolfe Tracks
Interview with musician Henry Wolfe
Interview with musician Henry Wolfe
Open Trench, Memoir and Other Stories,
Readings
Sit ‘N Spin, Comedy
Central, Los Angeles
True
Story, Los Angeles
Tell It!, Los
Angeles
Personal SPACE,
Pasadena
Brooklyn Reading
Works
Skylight Books
Book Soup
Skylight Books
Book Soup
Art by the Ferry
Festival, Staten Island
A Different Light
Bookstore, Los Angeles
Theatre
The Water Tribe (full-length
drama)
Published, Original Works
Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles and VS. Theatre Company Co-Production
Stage Scene LA Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actress
and Outstanding Performance by a Featured Actor
A Good Smoke (full-length dramatic comedy)
Optioned for Broadway by Eric Falkenstein/Alan Marks
The Public Theater, Reading, Meryl Streep & Debra Monk, New York
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
New Jersey Repertory, Directed by Austin Pendleton, Reading
Ensemble Studio Theatre, Directed by Austin Pendleton, Reading
Primary Stages, Reading
The Production Company, 99-Seat Contract, Los Angeles
Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist
Stage Scene LA Award for Best Actress
A Good Smoke (full-length dramatic comedy)
Optioned for Broadway by Eric Falkenstein/Alan Marks
The Public Theater, Reading, Meryl Streep & Debra Monk, New York
Directed by Pam MacKinnon
New Jersey Repertory, Directed by Austin Pendleton, Reading
Ensemble Studio Theatre, Directed by Austin Pendleton, Reading
Primary Stages, Reading
The Production Company, 99-Seat Contract, Los Angeles
Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist
Stage Scene LA Award for Best Actress
The Horse Latitudes (one-act)
Developed at
Ensemble Studio Theatre Playwrights Unit
Don’t Touch the Orangutan! (one-act)
Developed at
Ensemble Studio Theatre Playwrights Unit
Solid Joints (one-act)
Ruskin Group
Theatre, Café Plays
Live Work Space (full-length
dramatic comedy)
Ruskin Group
Theatre, Reading, Los Angeles
The Production
Company, Reading, Los Angeles
West Coast
Ensemble, Reading, Los Angeles
The Road Theatre
Company, Reading, Los Angeles
The Winner (one-act)
Published, Post
Road, Issue 25
Finalist, Heideman
Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville
West Coast
Ensemble, Los Angeles, Festival of Short Plays
Exempt (one-act)
Developed at
Ensemble Studio Theatre Playwrights Unit
The Fat of the Land (full-length dramatic
comedy)
Published excerpt, The Coachella Review
Maieutic Theatre
Works, New York, New Born Series Reading
The New Theatre,
Los Angeles, 99-Seat Contract
Los Angeles Ovation
Award for Best Featured Actor
Ensemble Studio
Theatre, New York, Octoberfest
One of fifteen
finalists for the Kaufman & Hart Prize for New
American Comedy awarded
by Arkansas Repertory Theatre
Piss Play Is About Minorities So It’s
Really Important (one-act)
Producers Club, New
York, Cringe Festival
Golden Pineapple for Best Play (First
Prize), Cringe Festival
First runner up Lead Actor Award
West Coast
Ensemble, Los Angeles, Festival of Short Plays
I’m Really Different (Now)!
Largo, Los
Angeles, Original Music by Don Cummings w/ Karen Kilgariff
Feed the Children (one-act)
The Production
Company, Los Angeles, Summer Sizzle Festival of Plays
A Good Smoke (one-act)
Turnip Theatre
Festival, New York, Festival of Short Plays
Moving Arts
Theatre, Los Angeles, Festival of Short Plays
Stark Raving Mad (full-length comedy)
Tamarind Theatre,
Los Angeles, 99-Seat Contract
American Air One-Man Show
(full-length dramatic comedy)
HBO Workspace,
Aspen Comedy Festival Series, Los Angeles
Powerhouse Theatre,
Theatre/Theater, Two Roads Theatre Company,
Los Angeles,
99-Seat Theatre Contract
What Do Men Live By? One-Man Show
(full-length dramatic comedy)
Soho Repertory
Theatre, New York, Equity Showcase Contract
Two Birds in the Hand (ten-minute
monologue)
Ensemble Studio
Theatre, New York, American Series
Film/Television
Box
Toronto Independent
Film Festival, Dam Short Film Festival
New Filmmakers New
York, Twin Rivers Media Festival
Distributed by
Shorts International
Principal
Photography, starring Mink Stole, supported by SONY
The Buzz Kill, Accidental Mexican
Book Club Murder
Oh, The Horror! Alternative
lifestyle Zombie movie
Money Multi-generational one
hour drama pilot
Sons and Mothers Half hour comedy
pilot
The King is Always Right Half
hour comedy pilot
Miss Teen USA, 1999 Writer/Segment
Producer with Host Carson Daly
Affliations
Member, Ensemble
Studio Theatre/Los Angeles
Member, Ensemble
Studio Theatre Playwrights Unit, New York
Professor,
Contemporary Drama, William Paterson University, New Jersey
Literary Judge,
Literary Death Match, Club Oberon, A.R.T., Harvard University
Advisory Board, VS.
Theatre Company, Los
Angeles
Member, Dramatists
Guild
Member, Authors Guild
Member, Authors Guild
Member, SAG-AFTRA,
Actors Equity Association
Education
The Neighborhood
Playhouse School of Theatre, Graduate two-year program
Tufts University,
BS-Biology/Pre-Medical requirements
Schola Cantorum,
Paris, France, Music Composition
Manhattan Punch
Line Theatre Comedy Corps
New York State
School of the Arts, School of Choral Studies, Fredonia, New York
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