RESUMÉ
Professional
Memberships
The Dramatists Guild
BMI MUSICAL THEATRE WORKSHOP
Librettist Workshop (1999-2025; currently alumni status)
Composer/Lyricist Workshop (2006-2009, including Advanced Workshop)
ascap
opera america
the theatremakers studio
Online Directory Listings
The New Play Exchange (NPX)
Maestra
Musical Theatre Radio: The Sampler Platter
Board Membership
York Theatre Company
President of the Board (2016-2024)
Board Member (2024-present)
plays
off-broadway
(mis)UNDERSTANDING MAMMY: The Hattie McDaniel Story
The Schoolhouse Theater (Croton Falls, NY)
Summer 2023
Script and production materials archived in Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (N.Y. Public Library)
2013
Jefferson Playhouse (Jefferson, TX), Tara in Texas II
Spring 2010
Chicago Humanities Festival (stage reading)
(Black Theater Alliance Award nom., Capathia Jenkins)
Fall 2007
Premiere, Emerging Artists Theatre Co.
(Drama Desk nom., Capathia Jenkins)
Fall 2007
off-off broadway
Chasing Tigers, Samuel French One-Act Festival (Finalist)
Summer 2006
Going Too Far, Samuel French One-Act Festival
Summer 2005
L-O-V-E, Samuel French One-Act Festival and EAT
2003/2004
Therapy, New York-Style, Samuel French One-Act Festival
Summer 2003
Glimmer of Hope, EAT
Spring 2003
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Sam French One-Act Festival
Summer 2002
The Survival Collection, Kaleidoscope Productions
Fall 2001
19 Angel Street, Pulse Ensemble Theatre/Opal
Fall 2001
The Confessional, EAT (& PBS pilot)
2000/2001
Sweating It Out, EAT
Fall 2000
Regional
Surprise Party, Hand-To-Mouth Productions (Buchanan, NY)
Summer 2006
Hiccup and a Wink (a/k/a 19 Angel St./Stuck/Anyplace But Here)
Fleetwood Stage/The Foundry (staged reading)
Winter 2005
Readings: E.A.T. (Lab Series), Innovative Stages and Westchester Playwrights
2002-2006
Hamlet in Bensonhurst (a/k/a The Dane in Brooklyn)
Scarsdale Library (reading)
Fall 2003
Fleetwood Stage/Platform (staged reading)
Winter 2004
EAT (workshop)
Spring 2004
Summer 2004
L-O-V-E, Short Play Lab, Last Frontier Theatre Conf.
Summer 2003
The Sacrifice, Fleetwood Stage/Platform (New Rochelle, NY)
Winter 2002
Survival, Fleetwood Stage/Platform (New Rochelle, NY)
Winter 2001
Soft Whisper, Vortex Theatre (Albuquerque, NM)
Spring 1999
In Development
Dirty Little Secret: The Secret Life of Loretta Young
The York Theatre (staged reading)
Spring 2012
This is Serious
The Schoolhouse Theater (Zoom reading)
Spring 2021
2020-2021
Ken Davenport’s TheaterMakers Studio (Zoom reading)
Fall 2020
Musicals
Dandelion (book and lyrics)
Licensed by Dramatic Publishing
Winter 2024
World Premiere, Playhouse on Park (W. Hartford, CT)
Spring 2023
Musical Theatre Radio, Be Our Guest, Episode #175
Spring 2023
NYC reading (Mary Rodgers’ Room)
Spring 2019
Go Green! Prince Charming’s Quest for Love and Ecology in NYC (book and lyrics)
First Annual New York Children’s Play Festival
Spring 2012
2nd Place Winner, Jackie White Memorial National Children’s Play Writing Award
2013
2012
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
Spring-Summer 2010
New York Musical Theatre Festival, (Outstanding New Family-Oriented Musical, TalkinBroadway)
Fall 2005
Actors’ Playhouse at The Miracle Theatre (Coral Gables, FL) (National Children’s Theatre Award)
Spring 2005
ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop (reading); The York Theatre (readings)
2003 and 2004
Summer Stage, Premiere (Upper Darby, PA)
Summer 2002
NEO Concert (Emerging writer-lyricist), The York Theatre
Spring 2009
Toll-Taker, Toll-Taker (book and co-lyrics)
Raw Impressions
Winter 2003
The Real McCoy (book)
Conservatory prod., NYU Tisch School for the Arts/CAP 21
Spring 1999
Blackjacks Festival (CAP 21)
Spring 1999
In Development
Bordello (co-book, additional lyrics)
London 3-wk. workshop, Royal Academy of Dance (two public performances)
Spring 2025
York Theatre Company (Industry Reading)
Spring 2024
Black Swan Blues (book and lyrics)
An Evening of Song: The Music of Black Swan Blues, The Lambs, NYC
Spring 2025
Release of “Black Swan Blues – The Concept Album”
Summer 2024
York Theatre (staged reading)
Fall 2022
Private Table Reading
Winter 2021
Music Theatre of Connecticut (Festival of New Musicals-excerpts)
2016/2017/2019
Imagining Monet (a/k/a Monet) (book)
York Theatre (60-hour Equity reading w/ projections/lighting)
Spring 2019
French Consulate, “Evening of Songs and Story”
Winter 2018
CAP21 (Writer’s Residency and reading underwritten by a grant from Florence Gould Foundation)
2015-2016
York Theatre Company (reading)
Spring 2014
In the Theatre (co-book)
York Theatre (readings)
2008/2009/2010/2019
The Death…and Life…of Mary Shelley (book)
Golden Fleece, Composers’ Chamber Theatre (excerpts)
Fall 2012
Operas
White Witch (libretto)
Salem State University (Salem, Mass.)
Fall 2019
Roulette, (Brooklyn, NY) (in concert)
Winter 2016
Premiere, Symphony Space, NYC
Fall 2014
Strange Fruit (libretto)
Score, libretto and production materials archived at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NY Public Library)
2013
Bleecker St. Opera, New Composers’ Forum
Winter 2010
“Strange Fruit in Concert,” Harlem School of the Arts in assoc. w/ New York City Opera
Spring 2009
Premiere, Long Leaf Opera, Chapel Hill, NC
Summer 2007
Summer 2004
New York City Opera’s VOX 2003
Spring 2003
“Home” (libretto for aria)
White Snake Projects, “Sing Out Strong, Environmental Voices” (Boston and environs)
Winter/Spring 2025
Grant Adjudicator, Opera America
Fall 2017
In Development
Roman Fever (libretto)
“From Story to Score,” an evening of excerpts and conversation, Grace Church, NYC, presented by Grace Church and The Mount
Spring 2026
Jubilee (libretto)
Commissioned by The Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University (supported by NEA and Yale ASCEND grants)
Winter 2025
The Reef (libretto)
Guest Lecturer: “Wharton Revisited” Lecture Series, The Mount, Lenox, MA.
Spring 2024
Berkshire Opera Festival Workshop Performance Act I, Merkin Hall, NYC
Spring 2024
Fall 2016
Center for Contemporary Opera
Prima le Parole (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant)
Spring 2014
Libretto Slam!
Winter 2010
Other Works
Cabaret
“One Small Box”
Maestra Amplify Gala (pre-show reel)
Spring 2022
2020-2021
LPTW Twelfth Night Soirée (Zoom)
Winter 2021
Musical Theatre Radio, “Between The Lines, #4”
Winter 2021
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
2003-2008, 2012
Screenplays
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
1985-1997
Creator and Drama Instructor, Pretending Together
The Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY
1993-1994
Mid-Westchester YM-YWHA, Scarsdale, NY
1986-1988
Bob Luke Acting Studio, Larchmont, NY
1988
Education
University of Rochester (B.A.)
1969
The London School of Economics & Political Science (Gen. Course)
1967-1968
Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.)
1974
SUNY at Purchase (Playwriting, Continuing Education)
1991-1992