Theatre Faculty

BA, Marquette University. MFA, Columbia University. One-year Study Abroad, Oxford, England. Actress, playwright, director. Appeared for nine seasons as Pam Shrier, the ballistics detective on Law and Order. Acting credits include Saturday Night Live, One Life to Live; films: Ice Storm, Fatal Attraction; stage: Comedy of Errors, Uncle Vanya, Catholic School Girls, Division Street, The Dining Room. Two published plays: Mama Drama and The Once Attractive Woman. Directed in colleges as well as off-Broadway and was the artistic director and co-founder of the New York Team for TheatreSports. Performed in comedy improvisation throughout the world. SLC, 1991–

Recipient of an OBIE Award, five New York State Council on the Arts fellowships for playwriting and directing, a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, Creative Artist Public Service Award (CAPS), Best Actor Focus Press Award, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) member. Broadway: Pacific Overtures, Shimada, Loose Ends, The King and I, Zoya's Apartment, director Boris Morozov, Maly Theatre. Regional/off-Broadway roles: King Lear, Macbeth, Oberon, King Arthur, Autolycus, Chebutykin, James Tyrone, Lysander, Mishima, Caucasian Chalk Circle, director Fritz Bennewitz, Berlin Ensemble. Author of Kwatz! The Tibetan Project, Leir Rex, The Dowager Empress of China, An American Story, Eat a Bowl of Tea, Night Stalker, opera Cambodia Agonistes, all produced off-Broadway; national tours to the Cairo Experimental Theatre and Johannesburg, South Africa. Performed Butoh with Shigeko Suga in Spleen, Accade Domani by Dario Fo, and Sotoba Komachi. Film/TV: 12 Monkeys (director Terry Gilliam), King of New York, Call Me, New York Undercover, Kung Fu. Director/ screenwriter: Mariana Bracetti, Arthur A. Schomburg, Asian American Railroad Strike, Iroquois Confederacy, Lilac Chen-Asian American Suffragette, and Osceola - PBS/CBS. Voice of His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the audiobook The Art of Happiness. SLC, 1995–

BA, Rutgers College. Certificate, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Graduate, The Conservatory at the Classic Stage Company (CSC), Playwrights Horizons Theatre School Directing Program. Actor, Director and Producer, o!-Broadway and regional productions. Currently; Resident Director, Forestburgh Playhouse. Producer/Producing Artistic Director, SLC Theatre Program (1994 -’08). Executive Producer, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York (1992 - ‘94); Associate Artistic Director, Elysium Theatre Company, New York (1990 - 92); Manager, Development/Marketing Depts; Circle Repertory Company (Circle Rep), New York. Recipient of two grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, OBIE Award; Outstanding Achievement o! and o!-o! Broadway (Producer, EST Marathon of One-Act Plays), Nomination; Drama Desk Award; Outstanding Revival of a Play (acting company). Director, first (original) productions of 13 published plays. SLC, 1994–

BA, The New School. Designed sound on Broadway, Off Broadway, and regionally. Designs on Broadway include: Picnic, Other Desert Cities, Wit, Good People, The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory…, Three Days of Rain (assoc.), Inherit The Wind (assoc.), Wit (national tour). Off Broadway: Atlantic, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, NYTW, WP, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature, Clubbed Thumb, Culture Project, Actor’s Playhouse, New Group, Promenade, Urban Stages, Houseman, Fairbanks, Soho Rep, Adobe. Regionally: Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Bay Street, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Long Wharf, The Alley, Kennedy Center, NYS&F, South Coast Rep, Humana, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre, ATF. On television: Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen, NBC’s Late Fridays. On film: We Pedal Uphill. On radio: contributing producer for PRI’s Studio 360, producer of Naked Angel’s Naked Radio. Contributor to the book, Sound and Music For The Theatre. Two Drama Desk nominations; four Henry Hewes nominations. Awards: Ruth Morley Design Award, OBIE award for Sustained Excellence (2011), Lilly Award (2013). SLC, 2009–

BFA, New York University Tisch School of the Arts. MFA, Yale University School of Drama. Extensive experience off-Broadway and in regional theatre, television, and commercials; artist-in-residence, Oberlin College. SLC, 1998–

BA, Goddard College, University of Illinois. ACAT-certified Alexander Technique Teacher, 1979. Inventor of an ergonomic chair, the Sit-a-Round; taught the Alexander Technique in many venues: the Santa Fe Opera, Riverside Studios in London, Utrecht in the Netherlands; dancer, Judson Dance Theatre, Alwin Nikolais, Anna Halprin, and others; direction and choreography off-Broadway; appeared in Innovation (PBS); Off-Off Broadway Review Award, 1995-1996. SLC, 1987–

Sarah Lawrence College. Yale School of Drama. Film: Coach, All Saints' Day (winner, best narrative short, Savannah Film Festival), Beloved. Off Broadway: Year Zero (Second Stage Uptown), Still Life (MCC); Rainbow Kiss (The Play Company), The Water's Edge (Second Stage), Pen (Playwrights Horizons), Terrorism (The New Group/The Play Company), Omnium Gatherum (Variety Arts), Where We're Born and God Hates the Irish (both at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Get What You Need (Atlantic 453) and Kid-Simple (Summer Play Festival). Regional: Build at the Geffen Playhouse; Some Lovers at the Old Globe Theatre; Romeo & Juliet, Bus Stop, The Water's Edge, and A Servant of Two Masters at the Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Pillowman at George Street Playhouse; Hay Fever and The Price at Baltimore CenterStage; Sleuth at the Bay Street Theatre; Our Lady of 121st Street (Steppenwolf Theatre); Omnium Gatherum (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville). Artistic Director: Yale Cabaret (1999-2000). Recipient of the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller directing fellowships and a contributor to The Paris Review, New York Magazine, Harper’s, and The London Review of Books. SLC, 2010–

Graeme Gillis: Artistic Director of Youngblood , the company of emerging playwrights at Ensemble Studio Theatre (2012 Obie Award). Director of the EST/Sloan Project, a $1.5 million program that fosters plays about science, technology, and economics. Worked as a playwright at theatres throughout the US and Canada, including EST (Youngblood, Marathon of One-Act Plays); Rattlestick; Cherry Lane; Vampire Cowboys; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Source Theatre (DC); Tarragon Theatre (Toronto). Published by Dramatists Play Service and Applause Books. Member of the Actors Studio and EST.

Founded City at Peace, Inc. in Washington, DC, in 1994, then founded and now leads City at Peace-National—a nonprofit that uses the performing arts to empower teenagers to transform their lives and communities across the United States. Directed the creation and performance of 10 original musicals written from the real-life stories of diverse groups of teens and has overseen the creation of 30 more. City at Peace now has programs in seven US cities, several communities in Israel, and in Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to his work with City at Peace, he was co-director of the Theater of Youth, a company member of the No-Neck Monster Theater Co. in Washington, D.C., a member of Impro-Etc. performing improvised Shakespeare classics in England and Scotland, and a student/performer with Ryszard Cieslak from Jerzy Grotowsky’s Polish Lab Theater. Honored as one of Tomorrow's Leaders Today by Public Allies, he also received the Hamilton Fish Award for Service to Children and Families. He and City at Peace have appeared in numerous venues across the country, including the Arena Stage, The Public Theater, “Nightline” with Ted Koppel, and HBO in a documentary on the City at Peace program. SLC 2008–

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. Performances in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, PS 122, La MaMa E.T.C., Danspace, The Kitchen, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and at alternative presenters throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. Recipient of a Village Voice OBIE Award in 1990 for solo adaptation of Nathanael West’s A Cool Million and the 2000 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for Everyday Uses for Sight, Nos. 3 & 7; recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and a 2002-2003 Guggenheim fellowship and of grants from Creative Capital, the Rockefeller Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Mary Cary Flagler Charitable Trust, and the New England Foundation for the Arts. Recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre, 2004. Former teacher at Bowdoin, Bennington, Barnard, and Princeton. SLC, 1997–

Diploma in Sculpture and Painting, Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris. Playwright, director, and designer, with productions throughout the United States and Europe; co-founder, OBIE Award-winning Paper Bag Players; founder, The Painters’ Theatre. Directing credits include Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, UBU Repertory, La MaMa E.T.C., Ensemble Studio Theatre, Music Theatre Group, New York Performance Works; guest director/playwright, St. Archangelo, Italy; directed new works by Richard Greenberg, David Ives, Leslie Lyles, Eduardo Machado, Denise Bonal, Keith Reddin, and Arthur Giron. Writer/lyricist, Rockabye. Designer, Ben Bagley’s Cole Porter Shows, US and European tours; created interactive theatre workshops for The Kitchen and New York City museums; developed original ensembles on major arts grants. Winner, Golden Camera Award, U.S. Industrial Film and Video Festival; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her play, The Connecticut Cowboy; recipient of Westchester Arts Council Award in Education and Excellence Award, the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Founder and codirector, Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Outreach. SLC, 1975–

Published plays include Chimera and White Buffalo in the French Performance Journal Collages and Bricollages. Recipient of the Lipkin Playwright Award and Drury College Playwright Award. Plays produced in New York City at La Mama and other venues; directed plays in New York and regionally; acted and directed in New York City, in Yonkers at the Hudson River Museum, and in regional theatre, on radio, television and film. Established The River Theatre Company in Central Wisconsin with a company of eclectic players from all walks of life. Directed and toured with the works of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Slawomir Mrozek, David Lindsay Abaire, John Patrick Shanley, Terrence McNally, Wendy Wasserstein, David Ives. Performances were presented on NPR and in lofts, shopping malls, bus stops, parking lots, abandoned stores, and traditional venues. Conducted theatre and creative writing workshops for participants of all ages in New York City, South America, and throughout the United States. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and The Wisconsin Council of the Arts. Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Faculty, Co-Director of Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Outreach, Creative Director of the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Program 2007-2010. SLC, 1998–

Tom Lee is a designer, director, performer and puppet artist originally from Mililani, Hawai’i. He has designed scenery, puppetry & projections for Ellen Stewart, Tom O’Horgan, Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre, Lone Wolf Tribe, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Christopher Williams, Yoshiko Chuma at theaters in New York and internationally. Puppetry performances include Disfarmer (St. Ann’s Warehouse & tour), Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera), Le Grand Macabre (NY Philharmonic) and WarHorse (Lincoln Center Theater). Tom Lee’s original puppet theatre work includes Hoplite Diary, Odysseus & Ajax, Ko’olau and The Secret History of the Swedish Marionette Cottage (with Matt Acheson). His work has been supported by residencies in the US and Bulgaria and by the Jim Henson Foundation, The Japan Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, TCG/ITI. Co-Director St. Ann’s Puppet Lab (2008-2010) www.tomleeprojects.com SLC, 2005–

Playwright, director, and the artistic director of the two-time OBIE Award-winning New Ohio Theatre in Manhattan. Most recently, he was a writer on Lush Valley, which was developed at The Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis and produced at HERE Art Center in Fall 2011. Other recent productions include, Nostradamus Predicts the Death of Soho, Red-Haired Thomas (“a sweetly fractured fairy tale” — The New York Times) and Doorman’s Double Duty (“A gem!” — The New York Times).  Other plays include, PR Man, No Meat No Irony, The Naked Anarchist, Dream Conspiracy, Creature of the Deep, No Thanks/Thanks, Vater Knows Best, and Floor Boards, which have been presented in New York City by Soho Think Tank, HERE Arts Center, Project III Ensemble, Clubbed Thumb, The Foundry, and Synapse Productions, among others. Commissioned adaptations range from The Possessed, by Dostoevsky, to How it Ended, by Jay McInerney. SLC, 2013–

BA, New England College. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Peace Corps, El Salvador. Writer of PSAs, commercials, industrials, and documentaries. Script writer and talent director at Gates Productions for 80 hours of local and regional live television in Los Angeles; one of two conceptual designers for Mitsubishi’s Waterfront Project, creating 32 amusement park attractions; creative producer of Red Monsoon, a feature film shot in Nepal. Film acting credits include Clean and Sober, Alien Nation, Come See the Paradise, and Weird Science; television acting credits include Guiding Light, Law and Order, Cheers, Quantum Leap, LA Law, and Night Court; stage credits include Holy Ghost, End Game, Zoo Story, Fishing, and Wat Tyler; directing credits include Platypus Rex, Mafia on Prozac, The 17th of June, North of Providence, Only You, To Kill A Mockingbird, and The Weir. Co-director and co-producer of SLC Web Series, “Socially Active,” Web feature film, Elusive; and television pilot, Providers. Recipient of two [Los Angeles] Drama-Logue Critics’ Awards for acting. SLC, 2000-

Designed lighting for hundreds of plays and musicals in New York and around the United States, as well as in Europe, Australia, Japan, and the Caribbean. Designs have included original plays by Edward Allan Baker, Cassandra Medley, Stewart Spencer, Richard Greenberg, Warren Leight, Lanford Wilson, Romulus Linney, Arthur Miller, and David Mamet. Continues to design the Las Vegas production of Penn & Teller and to work as resident designer for the 52nd Street Project. Received an American Theatre Wing Maharam Award nomination for his lighting design of EST’s Marathon of One-Act Plays and has taught lighting design at Sarah Lawrence College since 1990. SLC, 1990–

BA, Bowdoin College. Songwriting with Paul Simon, 1969, NYU; taught Singing Workshop with John Braswell at Sarah Lawrence (1971-77); scored musicals at Sarah Lawrence, Astor Place Theatre, and Cafe LaMaMa, New York City; composed, orchestrated, and musical-directed three rock operas off-off Broadway and at Sarah Lawrence. (The first, Joe’s Opera, was twice optioned for Broadway production; animated the second, The Sea of Simile, on a full-length DVD.) Toured and recorded (1977-1998) from Vietnam to Vienna, New York City to Sun City, with Dire Straits, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, Bon Jovi, B-52’s, the Pretenders, Nils Lofgren, Little Steven, Peter Wolf, Ian Hunter/Mick Ronson, two former NY Dolls, Live at CBGB’s, the Spinners, Shannon, John Waite, and Pavarotti. Returned to Sarah Lawrence in 2000 to work with Shirley Kaplan, William McRee, and Thomas Young. Fields of expertise: Hammond organ, rock-and-roll piano, synthesizer programming and sequencing, piano accompaniment, popular and progressive music of the 1950s-199’s. SLC, 1971-77, 2000–

BA, Jacksonville University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Co-founder and artistic director for Jacksonville’s A Company of Players, Inc.; productions with The Actor’s Outlet, Playwrights Horizons, Summerfest, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre. SLC, 1981–

Producer of plays, including American Slavery Project (2012-13). Cell (2013), Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon (2011), is pending publication in the anthology Outstanding One-Act Plays—2012, Dramatists Play Service; Daughter, Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon (2009), was published by Broadway Play Publishing (2012). Noon Day Sun (August, 2008), Diverse City Theatre Company, Theatre Row, New York City, and nominated for the August Wilson Playwriting Award (2008); Noon Day Sun was published by Broadway Play Publishing. Relativity, a commission from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Ensemble Studio Theatre (2004), was produced by Kuntu Repertory of Pittsburgh, Southern Repertory of New Orleans (2007), the Ensemble Studio Theatre  (May 2006), St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre (February 2006), and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco (June 2004); Relativity, published by Broadway Play Publishing, also won the Audelco August Wilson Playwriting Award (2006) and was featured on Science Friday on National Public Radio and in an online broadcast of the Los Anegeles Repertory Theatre (February 2008). Marathon (2004-06) was also published by Broadway Play Publishing. Ms. Medley received the “Going to the River Writers” Life Achievement Award (2004), Ensemble Studio Theatre 25th Anniversary Award for Theatre Excellence (2002), the Theatrefest Regional Playwriting Award for Best Play (2001), the New Professional Theatre Award (1995), and the Marilyn Simpson Award (1995). She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in Playwriting (1989) and won the National Endowment for the Arts Playwright Award (1990). She received a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (1986) and a New York State Council on the Arts Grant (1987). She taught at New York University and served as guest artist at Columbia University, the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, and Seattle University. She was a staff writer for ABC Television: "One Life to Live" (1995-97) and is a playwright member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and New River Dramatists. SLC, 1989–

BA, University of Kansas. MA, Sarah Lawrence College. Stage manager of original productions of works by Tom Stoppard, Neil Simon, Laurence Fishburne, Doug Wright, Charles Busch, Larry L. King, Ernest Abuba, and Lillian Garrett-Groag, among others. Broadway, Off Broadway, touring, dance, opera, and concert work includes productions with Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle Rep, WPA, Pan Asian Rep, Vineyard Theatre, La MaMa E.T.C., The Women’s Project, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, and New York City Opera. Co-founder of Modern Times Theater. SLC, 1998–

Production manager for the Sarah Lawrence College Theatre program. Other production management work includes seven seasons with the Westport Country Playhouse, also Shakespeare and Company, Classic Stage Company, The Working Theatre, The Colorado Festival of World Theatre, East Coast Arts Theatre, Berkshire Public Theatre, and The Jerash Festival in Amman, Jordan. Production stage management credits include productions with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Mabou Mines, New York Theatre of the Deaf, and Fast Folk Musical Magazine. Member of AEA. SLC, 1999–

As artistic director of advanced beginner group, work presented in New York at P.S. 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Central Park SummerStage (collaboration with John Giorno), Celebrate Brooklyn, and Symphony Space (collaboration with Laurie Anderson). Featured dancer in the works of Susan Marshall, Jane Comfort, Sally Silvers, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar’s Big Dance Theater, and club legend Willi Ninja; previously a member of Doug Varone and Dancers and an original member and collaborator for eight years with the Doug Elkins Dance Company. Over the past 20 years, choreographed or performed with directors Hal Hartley, Laurie Anderson, Robert Woodruff, Lee Breuer, Peter Sellars, JoAnn Akalaitis, Mark Wing-Davey, and Les Waters; recently appeared in Orestes at Classic Stage Company, choreographed The Bacchae at the Public Theater, and performed in a duet choreographed with Mikhail Baryshnikov. SLC, 2007– 

OBIE Award for Beauty’s Daughter, which she wrote and starred in at American Place Theatre. Toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe (Real Live Poetry) throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. Her play, Monster, premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in November 1996. Attended Sundance Theatre Festival Lab for four summers developing new plays. The Gimmick, commissioned by the McCarter Theatre, premiered on its Second Stage on Stage and went on to the Long Wharf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop. Yellowman was commissioned by and premiered at the McCarter in a co-production with the Wilma Theater and the Long Wharf Theatre. Vintage Books and Dramatists Play Service published Yellowman and a collection of earlier work. Pulitzer Prize award finalist and Drama Desk award nominee as an actress in Yellowman, which premiered at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2002. Susan Smith Blackburn award finalist with The Gimmick in 1999 and won for Yellowman. Recipient of an NYFA grant, the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights award, a Guggenheim, and the 2005 Pen/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a playwright in mid-career. Won a Lucille Lortel Playwrights Fellowship in 2006. In 2007, completed a new commission, called Bones, for the Mark Taper Forum and premiered a new work, The Blue Album, in collaboration with David Cale at Long Wharf. Currently working on a play called Horsedreams and Dancefloors, as well as a memoir, Character. SLC, 2008–

BA, Brandeis University. Costume designer for Ping Chong & Company; resident designer for UBU Repertory Theatre; founding member of Yara Arts Group; extensive work in off-Broadway and experimental theatre; venues include La MaMa E.T.C., Theatre for the New City, UBU Rep, and Theatre Row, along with festivals in Kiev, Lviv, and Kharkiv, Ukraine. SLC, 1993–

MA, New York University. BA, Northwestern University. Digital media artist working in video, film, sound, installation, interactive design, and performance and a long-time collaborator of multi-disciplinary artist Shaun Irons. Their work has been exhibited in diverse locations in New York and internationally and was recently seen at the Abrons Arts Center and The Chocolate Factory in New York City; The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe; and The Governors Island Art Fair, New York City; it was broadcast on PBS’s “Reel NY.” Their video design work has been seen at venues such as St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Public Theater, HERE Arts Center, P. S. 122, The Kitchen, the Pompidou Center in Paris, Holland Dance Festival, the Noorderzon Festival, the Venice Biennale, and the BAM Next Wave Festival. Awards include two NYFA Fellowships, grants from the NEA, NYSCA, Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Experimental TV Center, and the Asian Cultural Council, as well as residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Tokyo Wonder Site. Lecturer at The International Center of Photography and Pratt Institute, as well as an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Media Studies at The New School. SLC, 2012-

BA, Adelphi University. MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. Film, television, and theatre actress; member, Robert Lewis Acting Company and Green Gate Theatre; director and actress, regional and educational theatre; University of Virginia Artist-in-Residence program; founder, In Stages theatre company; recipient of two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; co-director of London Theatre Intersession ’88. SLC, 1985–

BFA in scene design, University of North Carolina School of the Arts. École Jacques Lecoq, Paris. Theatre work includes designing sets, puppets, and costumes and directing, choreographing, and performing. Drawn to incorporating puppetry, movement, and live music to the theatre, frequently making shows from the ground up. Work has been seen in many New York theatres, including HERE Theatre, La Mama E.S.T., P.S. 122, St. Mark’s Church, Dixon Place, and One Arm Red. Past collaborative work includes Electric Bathing, Wind Set-up, White Elephant, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, What’s inside the egg?, How I Fixed My Engine with Rose Water, and Etiquette Unraveled. As an artistic associate with the Hip Pocket Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas, designed sets and puppets for a multitude of productions over the years, presented seven collaborative theatre pieces, performed in more than 30 world premieres, and launched its Cowtown Puppetry Festival. Puppet/mask designer for New York Shakespeare Festival, Signature Theatre Company, My Brightest Diamond, Division 13, Kristin Marting, Doug Elkins, Cori Orlinghouse, Daniel Rigazzi, and various universities; puppetry associate for War Horse on Broadway. Awarded a variety of grants and awards for theatre work. SLC, 2012–

BA, Lawrence University. Author of numerous plays performed in New York and around the country, including Resident Alien (Broadway Play Publishing). Other plays include In the Western Garden (Broadway Play Publishing), Blue Stars (Best American Short Plays of 19931994), and Sudden Devotion (Broadway Play Publishing). A playwriting textbook, The Playwright’s Guidebook, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2002. Recent plays are Alabaster City, commissioned by South Coast Rep, and Judy Garland Died for Your Sins. Former literary manager of Ensemble Studio Theatre; fellow, the Edward Albee Foundation; member, Dramatist Guild. SLC, 1991–

BA, Vassar College. Postgraduate training at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sonia Moore Studio, and with David Kaplan (author, Five Approaches to Acting). President and artistic director, Cygnet Productions, National Equity Theatre for Young Audiences company; leading performer, Boston Shakespeare Company; guest faculty at Storm King School, Western Connecticut State University, and Vassar College; Certified Instructor, Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD);  winner of the Society of American Fight Directors’ 2006 Patrick Craen award; designated practitioner, Stough Institute of Breathing Coordination; certified teacher, Alexander Technique. SLC, 1991–