Playwright · Musical Bookwriter · Lyricist · Opera Librettist · Screenwriter
Professional
- Playwright/Musical Theatre Bookwriter/Lyricist/Screenwriter
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Member:
- The Dramatists Guild
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BMI Musical Theatre Workshop
- Librettists Workshop (1999-present)
- Composer/Lyricist Workshop (2006-2009, including Advanced Workshop)
- ASCAP
- Opera America
- League of Professional Theatre Women
- New Victory LabWorks Project
- The TheaterMakers Studio
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On-Line Directory Listings;
- The New Play Exchange (NPX)
- Maestra
- Musical Theatre Radio: The Sampler Platter
- Board Member, York Theatre Company
- Pres. of Bd. - 2016-2024
Plays
Off-Broadway:
- (mis)UNDERSTANDING MAMMY: The Hattie McDaniel Story
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- The Schoolhouse Theater (Croton Falls, NY)
- Script and production materials archived in
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- (N.Y. Public Library)
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- Jefferson Playhouse (Jefferson, TX), Tara in Texas II
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- Chicago Humanities Festival (stage reading)
- (Black Theater Alliance Award nom., Capathia Jenkins)
- Premiere, Emerging Artists Theatre Co. (EAT, Off-B'way)
- (Drama Desk nom., Capathia Jenkins)
Summer 2023
2013
Spring 2010
Fall 2007
Spring 2007
Off-Off Broadway:
- Chasing Tigers, Samuel French One-Act Festival (Finalist)
- Going Too Far, Samuel French One-Act Festival
- L-O-V-E, Samuel French One-Act Festival and EAT
- Therapy, New York-Style, Samuel French One-Act Festival
- Glimmer of Hope, EAT
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Sam French One-Act Festival
- The Survival Collection, Kaleidoscope Productions
- 19 Angel Street, Pulse Ensemble Theatre/Opal
- The Confessional, EAT (& PBS pilot)
- Sweating It Out, EAT
Summer 2006
Summer 2005
2003/2004
Summer 2003
Spring 2003
Summer 2002
Fall 2001
Fall 2001
2000/2002
Fall 2000
Regional:
- Surprise Party, Hand-To-Mouth Productions (Buchanan, NY)
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Hiccup and a Wink (a/k/a 19 Angel St./Stuck/Anyplace But Here)
- Fleetwood Stage/The Foundry (staged reading)
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- Readings: E.A.T. (Lab Series), Innovative Stages and
- Westchester Playwrights
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Hamlet in Bensonhurst (a/k/a The Dane in Brooklyn)
- Scarsdale Library (reading)
- Fleetwood Stage/Platform (staged reading )
- EAT (workshop)
- Soupʼs On!, Runner Up, Cincinnati Celtic World Festival
- L-O-V-E, Short Play Lab, Last Frontier Theatre Conf.
- The Sacrifice, Fleetwood Stage/Platform (New Rochelle, NY)
- Survival, Fleetwood Stage/Platform (New Rochelle, NY)
- Soft Whisper, Vortex Theatre (Albuquerque, NM)
Summer 2006
Winter 2005
2002-2006
Fall 2023
Winter 2004
Spring 2004
Summer 2004
Summer 2003
Winter 2002
Winter 2001
Spring 1999
In Development:
-
Dirty Little Secret: The Secret Life of Loretta Young
- The York Theatre (staged reading)
-
This Is Serious
- The Schoolhouse Theater (Zoom reading)
- TheaterMakers Studio nom., Best Play of the Year
- Ken Davenport’s TheaterMakers Studio (Zoom reading)
Spring 2012
Spring 2021
2020-21
Fall 2020
musicals
-
Dandelion
(book and lyrics)
- Licensed by Dramatic Publishing
- World Premiere, Playhouse on Park (W. Hartford, CT)
- Musical Theatre Radio, Be Our Guest, Episode #175
- NYC reading (Mary Rodgers' Room)
- Go Green! Prince Charming’s Quest for Love and Ecology in NYC
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(book and lyrics)
- First Annual New York Children’s Play Festival
- 2nd Place Winner, Jackie White Memorial National
- Children’s Play Writing Award
- Honorable Mention, Jackie White Memorial National
- Children’s Play Writing Award
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Isabelle and The Pretty-Ugly Spell
(co-book)
- Vital Theatre Company, 7-wk. mainstage run, transferred to
- Bleeker St. Theatre for 7-wk. extension and camp shows
- New York Musical Theatre Festival,
- (Outstanding New Family-Oriented Musical, TalkinBroadway)
- Actors’ Playhouse at The Miracle Theatre (Coral Gables, FL)
- (National Children’s Theatre Award)
- ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop (reading)
- The York Theatre (readings)
- Summer Stage, Premiere (Upper Darby, PA)
- NEO Concert (Emerging writer-lyricist), The York Theatre
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Toll-Taker, Toll-Taker
(book and co-lyrics)
- Raw Impressions
-
The Real McCoy
(book)
- Conservatory prod., NYU Tisch School for the Arts/CAP 21
- Blackjacks Festival (CAP 21)
In Development:
-
Bordello
(co-book, additional lyrics)
- London 3-wk. workshop, Royal Academy of Dance (two public performances)
- York Theatre Company (Industry Reading)
-
Black Swan Blues
(book and lyrics)
- An Evening of Song: The Music of Black Swan Blues,
- The Lambs, NYC
- Release of “Black Swan Blues – The Concept Album”
- York Theatre (staged reading)
- Private table reading
- Music Theatre of Connecticut
- (Festival of New Musicals-excerpts)
-
Imagining Monet
(a/k/a
Monet
) (book)
- York Theatre (60-hour Equity reading w/ projections/lighting)
- French Consulate, “Evening of Songs and Story”
- CAP21 (Writer’s Residency and reading underwritten
- by a grant from Florence Gould Foundation)
- York Theatre Company (reading)
-
In the Theatre
(co-book)
- York Theatre (readings)
-
The Death…and Life…of Mary Shelley
(book)
- Golden Fleece, Composers' Chamber Theatre (excerpts)
Winter 2024
Spring 2023
Spring 2023
Spring 2019
Spring 2012
2013
2012
Spring-Summer 2010
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
2003 and 2004
Summer 2002
Spring 2009
Winter 2003
Spring 1999
Spring 1999
Spring 2025
Spring 2024
Spring 2025
Summer 2024
Fall 2022
Winter 2021
2016/2017/2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2018
2015-2016
Spring 2014
2019/2010/
2009/2008
Fall 2012
opera
-
White Witch
(libretto)
- Salem State University (Salem, Mass.)
- Roulette, (Brooklyn, NY) (in concert)
- Premiere, Symphony Space, NYC
-
Strange Fruit
(libretto)
- Score, libretto and production materials archived at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public Library)
- Bleecker St. Opera, New Composers’ Forum
- “Strange Fruit in Concert,” Harlem School of the Arts in
- assoc. w/ New York City Opera
- Premiere, Long Leaf Opera, Chapel Hill, NC
- Finalist, O’Neill Music Theater Conference
- New York City Opera’s VOX 2003
-
“Home” (libretto for aria)
- White Snake Projects, "Sing Out Strong, Environmental Voices" (Boston and environs)
- Grant Adjudicator, Opera America
-
The Reef
(libretto)
- Guest Lecturer: "Wharton Revisited" Lecture Series, The Mount, Lenox, MA.
- Berkshire Opera Festival Workshop Performance
- Act I, Merkin Hall, NYC)
- Finalist, Domenic J. Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize
- Center for Contemporary Opera
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- Prima le Parole (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant)
- Libretto Slam!
In Development:
Fall 2019
Winter 2016
Fall 2014
2013
Winter 2010
Spring 2009
Summer 2007
Summer 2004
Spring 2003
Winter & Spring 2025
Fall 2017
Summer 2024
Spring 2024
Fall 2016
Spring 2014
Winter 2010
cabaret
-
“One Small Box”
- Maestra Amplify Gala (pre-show reel)
- TheaterMakers Studio nom., Best Song of the Year
- LPTW Twelfth Night Soirée (Zoom)
- Musical Theatre Radio, “Between The Lines, #4”
- YouTube (streaming)
-
“Elegy For Fanny Goode”
- YouTube (streaming)
- Songs performed at Birdland, Broadway Baby Bistro,
- Don’t Tell Mama, The Zipper, Opia, The Salon (Algonquin Hotel), Lincoln Center (Bruno Auditorium), Donnell Library Theatre
Spring, 2022
2020-2021
Winter 2021
Winter 2021
2003-2008, 2012
screenplays
- Spectator Bird (Finalist), Westchester Film Festival,
- adapted from The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner
Winter 2001
children's
- Founder, Writer, Producer and Director of KIDS ON STAGE (after-school performance workshop), Scarsdale Public Schools, Emelin Theater (Mamaroneck, NY), Rye Arts Center (Rye, NY) and others
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Creator and Drama Instructor, Pretending Together
- The Rye Arts Center, Rye , NY
- Mid-Westchester YM-YWHA, Scarsdale, NY
- Bob Luke Acting Studio, Larchmont, NY
1985-1997
1993-1994
1986-1988
1988
education
- University of Rochester (B.A.)
- The London School of Economics & Political Science (Gen. Course)
- Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.)
- SUNY at Purchase (Playwriting, Continuing Education)
1969
1967-1968
1974
1991-1992