I am a director and writer of hybrid work based in NYC, who recently received an OBIE for Lifetime Achievement. I am currently developing opera-theatre works with Stefania de Kenessey/Annie Finch, Paul Pinto, and Kamala Sankaram. I have constructed 36 works for the stage (14 original hybrid works, 9 opera-theatre and music-theatre works, 9 adaptations of novels & short stories and 4 classic plays). I work in a collaborative, process-driven way to fuse different disciplines into a cohesive whole. I have developed a unique directorial form that features a “gestural vocabulary” used both as an emotional signifier and as a choreographic element.

Selected premieres: BAM, HERE, Ohio Theatre, Soho Rep. Selecting touring: 7 Stages, Berkshire Festival, Brown, MCA, New World, Painted Bride, Perishable, UMass, Moscow Art Theatre, Oslo. Selected workshops: Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theatre, Target Margin. Selected residencies: Ankram Center for the Arts, Bethany Arts Center, LMCC, Mabou Mines, Mass MOCA, NACL, Playwrights Center, Space at Ryder Farm, Voice & Vision, Williams. Reviews have appeared in all major New York media. 

In addition to the OBIE, I am a recipient of a Proclamation from the NY State Assembly for steadfast leadership at HERE, two prestigious MAP Fund awards, a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution, a Leader to Watch by Art Table and a BAX10 Award. 

I am a political activist who has organized many art actions and a frequent panelist for the NEA, TCG, NYSCA, DCA, and ART/NY. I currently serve on the NYC Theatre and Live Performance Industry Council as well as a public member of Community Board #2. I serve on a number of nonprofit boards and work as a volunteer on legislative strategy with NYS Assemblymember Harvey Epstein. 

I have taught Creative Producing and Directing as well as lectured at a number of universities including Bard, Barnard, Brooklyn College, Brown, Columbia, Fordham, Harvard, New School, New York University, Pace, Williams, and Yale. Selected student productions at Cal Arts, NYU, and Sarah Lawrence. I served as Co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women. I assisted Robert Wilson on Salome and Hamletmachine. I co-founded the tiny mythic theatre company.

I am the Founding Artistic Director Emeritus of HERE, an award-winning progressive arts center in lower Manhattan where I cultivated artists and programs all events for over 30 years for two performance spaces–including 18 OBIE-award winners –for an annual audience of 30,000. I also co-founded and co-curated 13 editions of PROTOTYPE, a city-wide annual opera and music theatre festival. I graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with honors in 1988.