Productions

• The Color of Justice, Theatreworks/USA (first in New York, New York, with subsequent tours)
• Cover Girls, Clear Channel Entertainment, national touring production
• Corner Office, The Cleveland Play House, Cleveland, Ohio (non-Equity production)
• Equal Justice, Playful Repertory Company, New York, New York
• Maid’s Door, Women’s Project and Productions Tandem Acts 2004, New York, NY
• Mourners, Circle In the Square Laboratory Company, and New York International Fringe Festival, both in New York, New York
• Oscar Micheaux, Parker Entertainment, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2004
• The Real Ma Rainey, The Cleveland Play House, Cleveland, Ohio (see below)
• The Virgin, New Perspectives Theater Company, and Manhattan Theatre Source, both in New York, New York (also published)

Commissions

• Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project – recipient of 2002 commission to write The Bones of Giants, about 19th century paleontologists E. D. Cope and O. C. Marsh. Received readings as a part of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s First Light Festivals in 2003 and 2004.
• Theatreworks/USA — The Color of Justice, premiered at New Victory Theater in July 1996, played at Kennedy Center for three seasons, has completed four touring seasons, received a separate production at Indiana Repertory Theatre in its 2001-02 season and is currently in its sixth touring season.
• The Cleveland Play House — The Real Ma Rainey; toured local Cleveland schools during February 1995.

Awards

• Kleban Award (Librettist) – co-winner of the 2005 Kleban Foundation award.
• Barnstormer – the Lark Play Development Center received a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award in 2005 to support the development of this musical (see below).

Grants

• 2004 Recipient of the National Alliance of Musical Theater’s Producer/Writer Initiative with collaborator Douglas J. Cohen to develop the musical Barnstormer (see below) with the Lark Theatre Company.

Festivals

• Barnstormer – received staged readings at Frontline Productions Women on the Move! Festival in April 1999, at the New Perspectives Theater Company’s Voices from the Edge Festival, in February 2000, both in New York, New York, at the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville as part of the Juneteenth Festival of New Works in Louisville, Kentucky in June 2000, as a part of the First Look Series presented by the Women’s Project & Productions in November 2000. Portions of the musical adaptation have received readings at Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Going to the River Festival in March 2001 and at the York Theater Company in March 2003.
• The Bones of Giants – received staged readings as part of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s First Light Festival and Octoberfest in 2003 and First Light Festival in 2004.
• Carefully Taught – received a staged reading as a part of Six Figures Theater Company’s Artists of Tomorrow Festival in September 2002, a reading in Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Octoberfest 2002, and a reading as a finalist in TheatreFest’s 2003 Regional Playwriting Contest.
• Dementia Americana — received staged readings at the 1997 Peekaboo Festivals of New Music and Theater, New York, New York, at the Shalimar Productions Scattered, Smothered, and Covered Festival in 2002, and as part of Six Figures Theater Company’s Artists of Tomorrow Festival in September 2003.
• Oscar Micheaux – one-man version of full-length play scheduled to be performed as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Plays Written

• The Bones of Giants – received staged readings (see above).
• The Color of Justice – performed (see above)
• Corner Office – performed (see above); finalist in the 1995 Actors Theatre of Louisville
• National Ten-Minute Play Contest
• Cover Girls – performed (see above)
• Equal Justice – performed (see above)
• In Review – performed (see above)
• Mourners – performed (see above)
• The Real Ma Rainey – performed (see above)
• Taking Flight – performed (see above)
• The Virgin – performed (see above)
• Barnstormer – received staged readings (see above)
• Carefully Taught – received workshop in 6/01 and staged readings in 2002 (see above)
• Dementia Americana – received readings (see above)
• Oscar Micheaux – scheduled to be performed (see above)
• Phillis: A Slave to Poetry – received a staged reading
• Ruling Passions – received a reading

Musical Theatre

• Barnstormer – musicalization of play about Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman flyer (see above). Script and demo tape/CD available on request.
• Sugar Dumpling – full-length musical inspired by Guy de Maupassant’s Boule de Suif, set during the American Civil War. Script and demo tape available on request.

Memberships

• Dramatists Guild
  • Women’s Project & Productions Playwrights Lab
  • Dramatists Guild 2002 Playwrighting Fellow
  • Ensemble Studio Theatre River Writers Unit

Education & Training

• Princeton University, A.B. in English and Certificate in Theatre & Dance; Playwriting Class with Jean-Claude Van Itallie
• BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theater Advanced Workshop (Composer/Lyricist Section)
• Playwriting Workshops with Jeffrey Sweet