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PLAYS AND PRODUCTIONS
- Lemonade (monologue)
  - AUDIENCE FAVORITE Women's Theatre Project, Ft. Lauderdale, FL GIRL PLAY: The First Annual Lesbian Play Reading Festival, June 2009
  - Sidestep Productions/Canal Café Theatre, London The Atlantic Project: New American Writing, April 2007
  - International Centre for Women Playwrights, Boston, MA Celebration of Monologues by Women, March 2007
  - Sidestep Productions/Warehouse Theatre, London The Atlantic Project: New American Writing, February 2007
  - Bloody Unicorn Theater Company, Tucson, AZ Lesbian Shorts II festival September 2005
  - Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian Theatre Festival, June 2003
  - SECOND PRIZE New Voices 10-Minute Play Competition, 2003
  - Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA New Theatre Works Series, November 2002
- Mary (one-act)
  - Spiced Wine Productions, Boston, MA A Blessing and a Curse: A Duet of Plays on Motherhood, March 2009
- Benny and Serena's High School Graduation (one-act)
  - Spiced Wine Productions, Boston, MA A Blessing and a Curse: A Duet of Plays on Motherhood, March 2009
  - Rhombus Playwrights Group, Boston, MA Six Views, Same Shape: New Plays Different Ways, April 2008
  - Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK Play Lab, June 2006
- La Vie en Orange (10-minute)
  - Mill 6 Collaborative, Boston, MA The T Plays, September 2008
- October (10-minute)
  - Queer Soup, Boston, MA Lost and Found: The Anniversary Series, June 2007
  - Pan Theater, San Francisco, CA Ten Minute Play Festival, July 2005
  - Boston Theater Marathon, May 2005
- Artists Anonymous (monologue)
  - Sidestep Productions/Canal Café Theatre, London The Atlantic Project: New American Writing, April 2007
  - Sidestep Productions/Warehouse Theatre, London The Atlantic Project: New American Writing, February 2007
  - Hovey Players, Waltham, MA Summer Shorts Festival, July 2003
  - Theatre Cooperative, Somerville, MA Ritalin Readings, January 2003
- Patience (monologue)
  - Arlington Players, Boston, MA Five: The Sum of Our Differences (5 new plays by emerging writers), June 2006
  - Her-Rah! Celebration, Cambridge, MA (staged reading), November 2003
  - Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA New Theatre Works Series, November 2003
- Matter Familias
  - Love Creek Productions, New York, NY Developing Acts Company workshop, April 2006
  - NOMINATED Best New Play, Independent Reviewers of New England Awards, May 2004
  - Boston Playwrights' Theatre (workshop production), December 2004
- Miriam (one-act)
  - Untitled Theater Company #61, New York, NY 24/7 Play Festival, March 2005
- Nonprofit
  - Out of the Blue Theater Company, Boston, MA (staged reading), August 2004
  - Tri-State Actors Theater, Sussex, NJ (staged reading), May 2004
  - Boston Playwrights' Theatre, First Stages Reading Series, May 2002
- MOCKBA: a play about Moscow
  - Keene State College, Keene, NH October 2003
  - New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH (staged reading), February 2000
  - Second Stage Theatre Company, Boston, MA (staged reading), September 2000
  - WINNER John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award, 1999
  - Generic Theater, Portsmouth, NH Playreadings series, November 1998
- Shooting Sparks (10-minute)
  - Playwrights' Platform, Boston, MA Festival of New Plays, June 2002
  - FINALIST Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region I, February 2002
  - Part of the Senior Drama Manuscript Collection of the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Institute, Ohio State University
- Future Perfect (10-minute)
  - Shadow Boxing Theatre Workshop, Somerville, MA Double Plays festival, March 2003
  - Hovey Players, Waltham, MA Summer Shorts Festival, July 2001
- Performance Review (one-act)
  - Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA New Theatre Works Series, October 2001
- Arrhythmia (10-minute)
  - PUBLISHED Boston Theater Marathon of Ten-Minute Plays, Vol. 2 (Baker's Plays), 2001
  - Centastage, The Boston Plays: A Night of Short Plays by Boston Playwrights, October 2000
  - Gad's Hill/Centastage, New York, NY The Boston/New York Play Exchange, 2000
  - Boston Theater Marathon, April 2000
- Signs
  - Theatre Cooperative, Somerville, MA, New Play Series, March 2001
  - Oberon Theatre Ensemble, New York, NY (staged reading), June 1999
  - Open Circle Theatre Ensemble, Washington, DC (staged reading), November 1996

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

College Level
Emerson College	Adjunct Instructor, Screenwriting Certificate Program
Sept 2005-present	Courses: Screenwriting Basics I and II

University of Massachusetts, Boston	Adjunct Lecturer of Theater Arts
Sept 2004-present	Courses: Playwriting I, Introduction to Screen and TV Writing

Quincy College	Adjunct Instructor of English
Jan-Dec 2004	Courses: Creative Writing II, English Composition I

Boston University, College of Fine Arts	Teaching Assistant
Sept 2001-Dec 2002	Course: Script Analysis

High School Level
Massachusetts Young Playwrights Project	Instructor
2005, 2008, 2009	Led playwriting workshops for high school drama students, culminating in a festival of short plays by young writers.

Huntington Theatre Co. Young Voices Program	Mentor
2005-2007	Worked one-on-one with high school students to develop short plays, culminating in a presentation of staged readings.

EDUCATION
- Boston University Master of Arts in Creative Writing (2003)
- Wesleyan University Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Women's Studies (1996)
- National Theater Institute Semester in Moscow (Fall 1993)
MEMBERSHIPS
- Dramatists Guild
- Rhombus Playwrights Group

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