EDUCATION MFA, creative writing - Spalding University (Nov. 2018) PhD, political science - University of California Irvine (2011)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Resident Playwright, PlayGround SF (2023-present) Board Member, Pear Theatre (2020-present) Member, Dramatist's Guild (2015-present) Member, Pear Playwrights' Guild (2011-present) Founding Member, Same Boat Theater Collective (2019) Board member, Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco (2012–2019) Resident Playwright, Custom Made Theatre Company (2018)
RECENT READINGS AND PRODUCTIONS (2020-present) Once Upon a Dream, ten-minute comedy. Lakeshore Players. Upcoming 2024. ------. March 21, 2024. Rebound Productions, London, UK. ------. Feb. 16-17. 2024. Kent School, Kent, CT. ------. Feb. 9-10, 2024. Break a Leg Productions, New York, NY. Fertile Soil, ten-minute drama. Upcoming 2024. Pear Theatre, Mountain View, CA. ------. Reading. Nov. 2023. PlayGround SF. Jocasta Regina, ten-minute drama. Reading. March 2024. PlayGround SF. Dead People, full-length drama. Reading. March 17, 2024. Ross Valley Players. ------. Reading. Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, Alaska. ------. Reading (virtual). Nov. 13, 2020. Pear Theatre, Mountain View, CA. Fixer-Upper, ten-minute comedy. Reading. March 1-2, 2024. Burlington County Footlighters, Cinnaminson, NJ. -----. March 2023. PlayGround SF. The Execution of Croesus, full-length drama. Reading. Dec 16, 2023. Pear Theatre, Mountain View, CA. Christmas Spirits, ten-minute comedy/drama. Reading. Dec. 2023. PlayGround SF. Gallows Humor, ten-minute comedy. Reading. October 2023, PlayGround SF. The Lost Melody, ten-minute drama. Aug. 25-27, 2023. Jakespeare Theatre Co, Worcester, MA. Literary Mediation Services, ten-minute comedy.May 2023. Pear Theatre, Mountain View, CA. Stargazers, ten-minute drama. Reading. Jan. 2023. PlayGround SF. Coffee Lady, one-act comedy. Feb. 2022. Awesome Theatre, San Francisco, CA. Bellona, or the Mother of All Bombs, a monologue. 2022. Avalonia 7 Theatre Festival, Neptune Beach, FL. Obsession, ten-minute drama. Reading (virtual). July 17, 2021. Talking It Out Festival. Red Star, Blue Star, ten-minute drama. Feb. 12-13, 2021. Saint Peter's Players, Redwood City, CA. (virtual production) The More Things Change, ten-minute comedy. Feb. 12-13, 2021. Saint Peter's Players, Redwood City, CA.. (virtual production) Exposure, 10-minute comedy. Sept. 25-Oct. 4, 2020. U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz, Kaiserslautern, Germany. ---------. TBD (postponed due to COVID-19). Theatre@First, Somerville, MA. ---------. May 15-June 14, 2020. Pear Theatre, Mountain View, CA. (virtual production) La Fee Verte, full-length comedy. Reading (virtual). September 14, 2020. Good Medicine Rep, Gaithersburg, MD. Ageless. Full-length drama. Reading (virtual). May 16, 2020. Santa Monica Repertory Theatre. ----. May 1, 2020. Reading (virtual). Four Walls Theater Company.
PUBLISHED PLAYS Ageless, Original Works Publishing, forthcoming. Coffee Lady, Brooklyn Publishers, forthcoming. Mister the Bear, in The Louisville Review, Fall 2019. Wave-Walker, in The Louisville Review, Spring 2018. The Eighth Circle, in Best of Red Bull, published by Steele Spring Stage Rights, 2017. The Pequod Meets the Ocean Steward, in Best of Red Bull, published by Steele Spring Stage Rights, 2016. Auto-Incorrect, in Pint-Sized Plays vol. 3, published by Pint-Sized Plays, 2015.
AWARDS AND HONORS Winner, 2024 MoonDance Film Festival (Ageless) Winner, 2023 June Anne Baker Prize, PlayGround (Gallows Humor) Semi-finalist, 2019 Princess Grace Award (The Mourner) Finalist, 2019 Bay Area Theatre Festival (The Mourner) Finalist, 2019 PlayPenn Conference (The Mourner) Finalist, 2019 Prize for Women Writers, Kentucky Women’s Theatre Conference (La Fée Verte) Finalist, 2015 Theatre Bay Area TITAN award Finalist, 2014 Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation’s New Play Contest (Caeneus and Poseidon) Finalist, 2013 Pride Films and Plays Women’s Work Contest (Caeneus and Poseidon) First Place, 2013 Ohio State Newark New Play Contest (La Fee Verte) Winner, September 2012 Play of the Month, NYCPlaywrights (The Lost Melody) Finalist, 2011 Red Bull Theatre New Play Festival (King Sisyphus) Semi-finalist, 2011 O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference (The Widow of Sisyphus)