I like exploring how myth and dream, memory, culture, history, and quotidian details live side-by-side. I walk an aesthetic tightrope between comedy and tragedy. I know that every character is right in his or her own way, and that sometimes poetry, music, dancing or the well-timed physical joke speak better than prose.
I was born in the Midwest where I learned to dance and act while studying theatre and choreography. In New York I’ve served as actor, choreographer, director and playwright off-Broadway, at regional theatres, in film and on Broadway for Sunday in the Park With George. I’ve taught at Juilliard, Circle in the Square and Pace University, earned an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School where my novel won the Fiction Prize. My short stories and prose poems have been published in various lit mags, and my essays on dance, theatre, and literature can be found at the online digest 3QuarksDaily.com. I am co-founder of Living Room Theatre, where we stage innovative productions of new and classic plays on tiny budgets in intimate settings.
