Current Employment:
Associate Producer/Resident Director, Simonfest Theatre Company
Part-time Instructor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Education:
M.F.A. in Theatre (Playwriting Emphasis), University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Post-Baccalaureate Training, Northern Michigan University
B.A. in Theatre, Missouri Southern State University
Additional Professional Experience:
Literary Assistant
Arizona Theatre Company (1998-2000)
A Grand Entrance, Dramatic Publishing Anthology (1998)
Resident Dramaturg
Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Competition (2001, 2003)
The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Arizona Theatre Company (1999)
Playworks Retreat, University of Texas, El Paso (1997, 1998)
Playwriting Award Coordinator
The Neil Simon Festival New Play Contest (2012-2019)
Senior Theatre League of America and Dramatic Publishing Senior Adult
Theatre One-Act Playwriting Contest (2003)
Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Competition (1993-1995)
Script Reader/Respondent
National Partners of the American Theatre (ACTF) (2020)
Kennedy Center, American College Theatre Festival (2014)
Eileen Heckart Senior Drama Competition (2009)
Morton R. Sarett National Playwriting Competition (2003)
National Hispanic Playwriting Contest (1999)
Selected Original Scripts:
The Binding (2017)
Cain Town (2015)
A Little Bit Closer (2012)
My Best Dish (2011)
Under All This Junk (2010)
Caregiver Collage (2009)
No Such Thing (2008)
Lemonade and Pluto (2006)
Roulette (2000)
Heresy at a Crossroads (1998)
Seen (1998)
Heart in the Ground (1996)
Yankee Tango (1995)
Bansidhe (1993)
Directing Highlights:
Simonfest Theatre
Love Letters
Daddy Long Legs
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
On Golden Pond
I’m Not Rappaport
Multiple New Play Readings
Center for the Arts at Kayenta
Cabaret
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Flick
Sylvia
Bee-luther-hatchee
The Dining Room
Multiple original student one-acts
College of Southern Nevada
Circle Mirror Transformation
New Play Festival
The Speeding Theatre
Golf with Alan Shepard
Multiple outreach performances