In my varied career as a playwright, I have written for theatre, opera, musical theatre, dance, mime, and political street theater. I have also written screenplays.   

My work has been produced or developed at Yale Rep, Victory Gardens, Walnut Street Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Ashland New Plays Festival, the Sundance Playwrights Lab, London’s Orange Tree Theatre, Towne Street Theatre, Colony Theatre, Long Beach Studio Theatre, Capital Fringe Festival, NAACP Theatre Festival, and the New York Fringe Festival. In addition to The Hiroshima Daughter, my plays include Sleeping With the Dead, A God By Another Name, One Good Tree, Colors at Sunset, Summer Crossing, and Symphony Pastorale.

I also wrote the libretto for the opera Crazy Nora (based on my nationally broadcast radio drama), excerpts of which were featured on WHYY. As Danceteller’s Playwright in Residence, I collaborated on three dance performance works including Before Forever about living with AIDS that toured nationally as well as Russia and Lithuania.

My screenplays include American Classic, Two Boys from Tennessee, and Snow Job.

I am the former Producing Director of Yale Cabaret Hollywood and produced L.A.'92 ― Three Plays/Three Voices at the Los Angeles Theatre Center, a theatrical exploration of the 1992 L.A. Riots, which included my play Olympic Notions & Supply.

I am a recipient of a Pennsylvania Arts Council Fellowship, a Yaddo arts residency, L.A. Dramalogue Awards, and a past member of the A.S.K. Playwright-Composer Studio. I have taught playwriting and theatre classes at Philadelphia Theatre Company and Art Center College, Pasadena and in China, Ghana, and India and worked as a dramaturge, most recently on composer Brian Wilbur Grundstrom’s opera adaptation of the Earnest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls.

I am a member of the Dramatists Guild and a founder of Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights (ALAP). I graduated from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale where I was a swimming, singing frog in the world premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s musical adaptation of Aristophanes' The Frogs.

In my career as a freelance writer, I have written for clients and projects as varied as speeches for the City of Philadelphia, a submission document qualifying Qualcomm as a “Great Place To Work”, live events for Universal Studios Beijing, marketing materials for Japanese American National Museum and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and a training video for an ear-piercing gun.

I’m the former President of Harlem River Community Rowing. You can usually find me out on the water in a quad or an 8+ spring through fall.