Education, Awards, Biography
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Education
M.F.A., Playwrighting, The Yale School of Drama
B. A., English/Creative Writing, Goddard College
Certificate, Principles of Political Economy, The Henry George School of Economics
Awards
Resident Artist Program -- Mabou Mines
Participant -- Casting the Light (previously titled Shadows), Theatre in The Works Playwriting Conference
Special Participant -- The Apartment, The Eugene O'Neill Conference
Winner, Best Medium Length Film -- Wildfire's Determination, Best Short Film Awards 2023
Winner, Gold Award -- Magnificence & Stone, International Independent Film Awards
Official Selection -- Water Touching The Rock, London Independent Story Project 2022
Official Selection -- Shadows, Television Feedback Screenplay & Web Series Festival 2023
Selected -- Water Through Rock, Rome Independent Prisma Awards
Selected -- Shadows, TV Screenplay, New York City International Screenplay Award
Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, California Women's Film Festival
Finalist -- The Brown Foundation Fellows Residence
Finalist---The French Story, The Eugene O’Neill Center
Finalist -- FADE IN competition
Finalist -- The Letters, New York City International Play Competition
Finalist -- Shadows, TV Screenplay, Athena Film Festival
Finalist -- Playlabs Competition/The Playwrights’ Center Minneapolis
Finalist --The Price of Solitude, Ten-Minute Play Contest at Actors Theatre of Louisville
Finalist -- Casting the Light (previously titled Shadows), Theodore Ward Playwriting Contest
Finalist -- Wild Fires, Hollywood Black Film Festival
Second Place -- The Apartment, Theodore Ward Playwriting Contest
Semi-Finalist -- Shadows, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest
Semi-Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, Manhattan Short Film Festival
Semi-Finalist -- The Letters, The Golden Brad Awards
Semi-Finalist -- The Letters, Writemovies.com
Semi-Finalist -- Seasons, The Chesterfield Film Company/Writer’s Film Project
Semi-Finalist -- Water Touching the Rock, Park City Competition
Quarter-Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, Reno Tahoe Screenplay Contest
Quarter-Finalist -- Magnificence & Stone, New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
Quarter-Finalist -- Water Touching the Rock, New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Competition
Honorable Mention -- The Tower, Los Angeles Film and Script Festival
Honorable Mention -- Magnificence & Stone, Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards
Juror -- Maryland State Arts Council Evaluation Committee, Young Playwrights Festival
Artist-in-Residence -- Mabou Mines
Fellow -- MacDowell
Guest -- Yaddo
Guest -- Blue Mountain Center
Guest -- The Writer's Well Retreat
Commission
Allison Janney, Treatment/Screenplay “180 DEGREES”
Grant
“Seed Grant” Fashion Institute of Technology
Biography-in-Brief
Born: In Boston
Lives: In New York City
Member: New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT)
Member: League of Professional Theatre Women
Member: Honor Roll! Playwrights
Commentary: My Playwriting Research and Projects 2012, 30Blog, LPTW
Profile: WOMEN PLAYWRIGHTS Of DIVERSITY, book by Suzanne Bennett and Jane T. Peterson
Profile: Honor Roll Playwrights
National New Play Exchange: Bio and Scripts
