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Oct. 2010 Staged reading at Julia’s Room
Aug.2010 The Fourth Estate at the Cherry Pit, Rebecca Hengstenberg,dir.
New York International Fringe Festival.
Feb. 2010 Staged reading of The Weigh In, at Julia’s Room,
Leslie Hoban Blake, dir. Nov. 2009
9 Nov. 2009 Staged reading of “Target.” League of Professional Theatre
Women, producers; Cherry Lane Theatre, with Cady Huffman
(The Producers) , Michael Pemberton, (The Farnsworth Invention).
Edie Cowan, dir.
27 April 2009 Staged reading of Tarazed Gamma, at Julia’s Room.
Margot Lewitin, dir.
2008-2009 Workshop with Julie McKee, HB Studio.
Summer 2008 Workshop with playwright Jeff Sweet, Artistic New
Directions, Full Moon Lodge, Catskills.
Spring 2007 Staged reading, scene from Tarazed Gamma,
Pan Asian Theatre.
2004 – present League of Professional Theatre Women.
Playwriting Workshop.
Ph. D. , Theatre. Graduate Center, City University of New York. Oct. 1992.
DISSERTATION: "Family Masks: Father-Child Relationships in the Plays
of Eugene O'Neill." Advisor: Albert Bermel. The study rereads
“the daughter of plays" as phased dramatic experiments.
M.A., B.A. cum laude, English. Brooklyn College, CUNY.
2009 Winner. New (short) Play Contest, League of Professional
Theatre Women.
2006 - present Speaker, NY Council for the Humanities, Lillian Hellman.
2000-2005 Speaker, NY Council for the Humanities, Women Playwrights.
1997 NEH Summer Seminar, The American Playwright 1920-1950,
Columbia U.
1994 NEH Consultant for 1995 grants.
NEH included my proposal as a model for 1995 grant applicants.
NEH Independent Study Grant: Stage Images of American Jews.
1984-87 CUNY Research Assistantships and Fellowships.
1985 Fellow, NCI, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center
1983, 84, 85 Awards, National Federation State Poetry. Soc.
1983-84 CAPS ( NYSCA) Poetry Award
1974 Hon. Fellowship, Columbia U. Ph. D. Program, English (Declined).
2006 - date New York Correspondent, Plays International, a British magazine.
2005 – date Reviewer. New York Theatre Wire, a performing arts ezine.
2003-2005 Theatre columnist, North Shore Woman’s Newspaper
1996-2004 Theatre writer. Back Stage, a national performing arts weekly newspaper.
1986-94 Drama critic. Westsider/Chelsea Clinton News (two New York weeklies).
Over forty reviews and articles a year.
Two dozen scholarly articles; 17 scholarly book/performance reviews; 30 scholarly presentations at conferences from 1986-2005.
Judge, Henry Hewes Design Awards for the American Theatre Wing.
Voter, Drama Desk Awards.
Voter, Outer Critics Circle Awards.
Voter, Theatre Hall of Fame
2005-2009 Judge, Francesca Primus Award for Women in Theatre
2007-8 Member, Drama Desk Awards Nominating Committee
(Current and lapsed)
American Literature Association, American Theatre Critics Association, American Society for Theatre Research, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Drama Desk, Dramatists Guild, Eugene O'Neill Society, International Theatre Critics Association, League of Professional Theatre Women, Modern Language Association, Outer Critics, Society of Professional Journalists.