Artistic Resume

Awards and Prizes:

• 2020                     Solo Performance chosen for Amplify!, Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival (postponed)

• 2020                     Winner, ALAP Los Angeles 10 minute Play Festival

• 2019                     Finalist, Brady Fellows Program, 3 Girls Theater San Francisco

• 2018-19                 Grants Panelist, California Arts Commission

• 2018, 2019 Playwright, Last Frontier Theatre Conference

• 2018                    Grants Panelist, California Arts Commission

• 2017                     Artist in Residence, Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive

• 2016-17                 Community Initiative Partner at ACT, San Francisco with Jump! Theatre

• 2016-17                  Arts Citizenship Fellow, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

• 2016                     Playwright, Southampton Writers Conference

• 2015 - 2017             PlayGround Writers’ Pool, San Francisco CA

• 2015 - 2017             Flash Plays, Playwrights Foundation

• 2013, 2014              National One Minute Play Festival

• 2013                        ATLAS playwright, Theatre Bay Area. 

• 2012                        SF Olympians Festival, Athena! (co-written with Marilyn Harris Kriegel)

• 2010, 2011, 2016     Playwright Artist In Residence, Kennedy Center Advanced Intensive

• 2011                        SF State Alumni scholarship for excellence in Creative Writing

• 2009                      CASH grant through Theatre Bay Area for Jump! Theatre

• 2004                      Playwright, Sewanee Writers Conference

• 2009                      ICWP Women Artists Grant, for Rapture Makes Perfect

• 2002                      CASH Grant through Theatre Bay Area for the script of Play Dirt

Readings/Workshops/ Productions

2019 California Dreamin’ Featured reader at CCCC, Pittsburgh PA

2018 Pride Goes Before Shotz for Amios West at Piano Fight

2017      No Believers              A.C.T. Costume Shop, San Francisco

2015     The Flesh Is Willing       CCA, San Francisco

2015 - 2017 I Don’t Know Why I’m Here, Habits Die Hard, Others Flash Plays, Playwrights Foundation

2015 - 2018     1999, OK Corral,  Chasing the Dream, Others                    ShotzSF, PianoFight, San Francisco

2013 - 2014       Spring Has Sprung, Others     One Minute Play Festival, San Francisco                                              

2011, 2014         Arrested Melody                     Boxcar Theater, San Francisco; Impact Theatre, Berkeley, CA

2014                  Pashto Dreams                       Exit Theatre, San Francisco

2012                  Athena! The Musical              (book: D’Alois/Kriegel; music/lyrics:D’Alois) San Francisco Olympians Festival

2009                 Rapture Makes Perfect           The Marsh and Z Space, San Francisco

2005, 2008      Play Dirt                                 Z Magic Mondays San Francisco, and Playwrights Center, Minneapolis MN

Original Solo Performance

2019, 2020            California Dreamin’                  Shotz SF, Marsh International Solo Festival

2006, 2007            Already Combed My Hair                  The Marsh, San Francisco

2005, 2006            So’s Your Old Man                             BRAVA! Festival, San Francisco

2004                      Look out, here comes…                     Women’s Work, San Francisco

2002                       What’s My Line                                  Solo Salon, Solo Mio Festival

Experience:

2003-current                           Freelance playwright, dramaturg and director.
Writer and advisor to theatre artists on interdisciplinary independent projects.

2008-current                           Artistic Director
Jump! Theatre, San Francisco
Provide direction and management to a small theatre company devoted to creating work that tells authentic stories of mental illness. Lead writing workshops for artists with emotional difficulties and coordinate outreach activities to artists who receive mental health services.

2014, 2015                              Teaching Artist
San Francisco Shakespeare Festival
Teaching artist for middle school students at a Bay Area arts camp.

2012-current                           Adjunct instructor
SF State and University of San Francisco  
Adjunct instructor for writing classes. Develop original syllabi and
Assignments for all classes. 

1992-1995                               Freelance Music Reviewer
SF Weekly, San Francisco, CA
Reviewed rock, folk and pop CD’s and concerts for a local newspaper.

Selected Publications:

“My Apocalypse ”Writing Without Walls, September 2014

“Crash, Burn, Whittle” OUTOFOUR, Poetry journal, Spring 2011.

“So’s Your Old Man” Mother/Daughter Monologues Volume 4: Urgent Maturity. Eds. Emily Cicchini, Margaret McSeveney. Boston: ICWP Press, 2010.

“Jamaica.” Out of the Rain: An Anthology of Drawings, Writings, and Photography. Eds. Tom Fowler, Malcolm Garcia. San Francisco: Strawberry Hill Press, 1993

Other Experience:

Theater grants panelist for International Center for Women Playwrights, Marin County Arts Panel, California Arts Commission, and for the CASH Grant program of Theatre Bay Area.

Education:

M.F.A. Creative Writing – Playwriting,  San Francisco State University

BA Theatre Arts Brandeis University, Waltham MA