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

Soupʼs On!, Runner Up, Cincinnati Celtic World Festival

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

TheaterMakers Studio nom., Best Play of the Year

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

Honorable Mention, Jackie White Memorial National Children’s Play Writing Award

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

Finalist, O’Neill Music Theater Conference

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

Finalist, Domenic J. Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize

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

TheaterMakers Studio nom., Best Song of the Year

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

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

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