Artistic Director 2012-present
Universal Access Productions, Tucson Arizona
Associate Artist, Project Specialist (2008-2012)
Kore Press, Tucson Arizona
Founding Artistic Director 1989 – 2008 (retired)
Nevada Shakespeare Company (NSC)
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) constituent company
Actors’ Equity Association contracts: Letter of Agreement, LORT D, TYA
Professional Associations (retired):
Actors’ Equity Association
Screen Actors Guild
Dramatists Guild of America
Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers
Published Commentary
Online
Buzzine.com (many)
Common Dreams (3)
Many others
American Theatre Magazine (TCG, New York)
The Food Issue (recipe contributor) April 2010
Days of Our Lives (contributor) September 2004
Some Immoderate Thoughts on the Training of Actors, October 2002
NEON (NV. Arts Council),
But for True Need, Interview with Hal Holbrook, Spring 2001
Rude Mechanicals, Summer 1993
Many others
Acting (representative, 1982-Present)
Film
2006 A Single Woman Lead Heroica Films, Kamala Lopez
Theatre
| Off-Broadway | ||||
| 2005 | A Single Woman | Jeannette | The Culture Project, NYC | J. Simpson |
| Regional | ||||
| 2010-11 | Mary’s Joy | Mary Dyer | Universal Arts Boulder | MK Riddell |
| 2008-09 | Coming In Hot
The Color of Rose |
17 Characters
Rose Kennedy |
Kore Press (tour)
Theatre 40, Beverly Hills |
Lisa Bowden
Ann Hearn |
| 2007 | Shakespeare’s Will | Anne | Theatre 40, Beverly Hills | Susan Bay Nimoy |
| 2005 | Hamlet | Gertrude | Nevada Shakespeare Company | J. Simpson |
| Richard III | Elizabeth | Nevada Shakespeare Company | J. Simpson | |
| 2004 | A Single Woman | Jeannette | Nevada Shakespeare Company | Cameron Crain |
| 2003 | The Road to Mecca | Elsa Barlowe | Nevada Shakespeare Company | Zakes Mokae |
| Amigas | Marjorie | Nevada Shakespeare Company | Cameron Crain | |
| 2001 | Romeo and Juliet | Lady Capulet | Nevada Shakespeare Company | David Ellenstein |
| 2000 | Macbeth | Lady Macbeth | Nevada Shakespeare Company | Cameron Crain |
| 1999 | Sailing to Byzantium | Maude Gonne | Nevada Shakespeare Company | Bob Barsanti |
| 1997 | The Front Page | Hildy | Summer Palace, Pullman Wash | George Caldwell |
| Pirates of Penzance | Ruth | Summer Palace | Paul Wadleigh | |
| 1996 | Comedy of Errors | Adriana/others | Weird Sisters, Reno | L. Martina Young |
| Moonblood | J Witch | Weird Sisters | L. Martina Young | |
| 1995 | Cardenio | Wife | Group Theatre, Reno | Eric Davis |
| Taming of the Shrew | Kate | Group Theatre | Eric Davis | |
| 1993 | Anything Goes | Reno | Summer Palace | George Caldwell |
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Maggie | Actors Repertory Theatre, Las Vegas | Georgia Neu | |
| 1992 | The Skin of our Teeth | Sabina | Summer Palace | Terry Converse |
| Miss Firecracker | Elaine | Summer Palace | Shawn Shepard | |
| A Shayna Maidel | Lusia | Actors Repertory Theatre | Georgia Neu | |
| 1991 | Beyond Therapy | Charlotte | Daring Explorations, Reno | Jeff Clark |
| 1989 | The Soldier’s Tale | Devil | UNR/Music & Dance Festival | David Gardiner |
| 1988 | Strange Snow | Martha | The Actors Project, Reno | Penny Metropulos |
| Tintypes | Emma | The Actors Project | Reed Jones | |
| 1987 | A Shayna Maidel | Rose | The Actors Project | Cynthia White |
| 1986 | Aunt Dan and Lemon | Dan | Nevada Repertory Company | Dave Anderson |
| Twelfth Night | Maria | Nevada Repertory Company | Bob Dillard | |
| 1982 | Camelot | Guenevere | Coeur d’Alene Theatre, Idaho | Ralph McCoy |
Directing (representative)
2006
As You Like It
Nevada Shakespeare Company
2005
A Single Woman
The Culture Project/Nevada Shakespeare Company
2003
King Lear
Nevada Shakespeare Company (NSC), Reno
2002
The Trojan Women
Nevada Shakespeare Company
2001
Richard III
Nevada Shakespeare Company
2000
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Nevada Shakespeare Company
Annie Get Your Gun
Nevada Shakespeare Company
Hamlet
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1999
Steel Magnolias
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1997
Night Game
Odd Duck Studios, Seattle
1996
Diary of Ann Frank
Actors Repertory Theatre, Las Vegas
1995
The Corn is Green
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1994
The Tempest
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1993
Steel Magnolias
Summer Palace, Pullman Washington
1992
The Woolgatherer
Nevada Shakespeare Company
Women Heroes
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1991
‘Night, Mother
Nevada Shakespeare Company
Painting Churches
Nevada Shakespeare Company
1990 Under Milk Wood
Theatre on Broadway, Denver
Cost of Innocence
Denver Center/Colorado Dramatists
1989
Quilters
NSC (inaugural production)
1988
Greater Tuna
Ramada Showroom, Reno
1986/87
Richard (or a visit to a small Plantagenet)
Reno Shakespeare Festival
1986
Here We Are
Reno Shakespeare Festival
Playwriting
2010 Mary’s Joy (Universal Arts Boulder)
2009 Coming In Hot (co-adaptation, Powder: writing by women in the ranks from Vietnam to Iraq)
2006 On Track: the Brian Willson Story (in-progress)
2004 A Single Woman NSC/California Stage
2003 Amigas NSC (co-adaptation, Amigas: letters of friendship and exile)
2002 Tuesday’s Child Nevada Shakespeare Company
1997 Ringers Odd Duck Studios, Seattle
1997 Platte River Paradox Odd Duck Studios, Seattle
1996 Moonblood NSC/Sierra Arts Center, Reno (co-written with 2 others)
1996 Chimera: weaving the fragments NSC/Women’s Studies, UNR
1995 In My Own Image Comstock Arts Council, Virginia City
1994 Halloween Gannet Foundation Commission
Special Skills
Trusting the material; producing work with little or no budget (once taught a college course titled ”Theatre on a Shoestring: how to produce a show for $25 or less”); dialect artist – any dialect with some lead time (also coach); Teacher of voice, acting, dance and yoga; great with kids and animals; bread baker; candle maker.
