Awards & Nominations:

  • Ovation Award – Best Writing of a World Premiere Play or Musical
  • LA Weekly Theater Award for Playwriting
  • LA Weekly Theater Award Nomination for Comedy Direction
  • Backstage West Garland Award, (Honorable Mention), Playwriting
  • Dramalogue Award, Best Production
  • Ovation Award Nomination, Best Production
  • Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award Nomination, Best New Musical

Honors:

  • Featured guest panelist, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP)
  • Panel Judge, Colorado Council On The Arts Fellowship Grant
  • Panel Judge, ALAP Playwriting Festival
  • Panel Judge, ALAP 10 Minute Playwriting Contest

Training:

  • Herbert Berghof Acting Studio, New York City
  • Sal Romeo, Friends & Artists, Los Angeles
  • The Second City Training Center, Chicago
  • Chicago Filmmakers
  • Mary F. Casey, play writing, Los Angeles
  • UCLA Extension, digital filmmaking

Teacher:

  • Women Playwrights Outreach Project

Writer:

  • Out For Laughs – sketch comedy pilot – Moxie Productions
  • Beyond Bagdad – (co-written with Doug Holsclaw) – Theater Rhinoceros – San Francisco
  • The Second City Conservatory Graduation Show – The Second City – Chicago
  • Valsetz – stage play – Celebration Theater; Tamarind Theater – Los Angeles
  • Miss Conception – stage play – Highways Art Space – Santa Monica
  • Sidestreet – stage play – commissioned by Theater Rhinoceros – San Francisco
  • Bertrand & Flam – stage play
  • Will & Grace (spec script)
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm (spec script)
  • Beaver Creek (original television pilot)
  • Heaven Knows (original television pilot)
  • Holy Matrimony (mockumentary spec)
  • Family Values (feature spec)

Director – stage:

  • Valsetz - Celebration Theater; Tamarind Theater
  • Miss Conception – Highways Art Space
  • The Rape of Djuna Barnes – St. Genesius Theater
  • Pulp – West Coast premiere – Celebration Theater
  • Women Playwrights Outreach Project, Staged Reading Festival, (director, producer)

Director – film:

  • O Jackie!  (short)

Actor:

  • Friends & Artists Theatre Ensemble, (Marat/Sade, The Suicide, Balm in Gilead), Los Angeles
  • Global Riot, (nation’s first GLBT professional comedy improv troupe), San Francisco
  • Out For Laughs - sketch comedy pilot, Moxie Productions
  • TheatreSports – professional comedy improvisation – Chicago