I can tell a good story.

An award-winning actor-writer, my plays include BUZZ (Dir. Carrie Preston; World Premiere, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Nominated, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Winner, Hidden River Playwriting Award; Winner, Reverie Next Generation Playwriting Award; Developmental readings with Off-Broadway’s Atlantic Theater Company and New York Theatre Workshop; Finalist, Baltic Writing Residency (Brora, Scotland); Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award); THE MACHINE (Global Age Finalist); THE SILVER KITCHEN PLAY (Dir. Carrie Preston, development, artist-in-residence, Actors Theatre of Louisville and FRANK, developmental reading, Theatre of Note, Dir. Kevin Earley); THE WONDER (Writer/Actor, Dirs. Julie Ann Emery and Kevin Earley, BEST PRODUCTION, BEST OF THE FESTIVAL International United Solo Festival; Nominated for both the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award and the William Saroyan Human Rights/Social Justice Award, terraNova’s New Play Series), THE FALL (chosen, Pioneer Theatre’s Play-by-Play Series; The Blank Theatre’s Living Room Series Staged Reading; Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), SUICIDE ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, and PEASANT (Writer/Actor, Dir. Dale Heinen), among many. My TV pilots include FOGGIA, BETWEEN HELL AND THE BIG EMPTY (co-written with Teresa Harrison), MEAN SECRETARIES and HALF LIGHT. My screenplay THE FALL (based on my play of the same name) is currently in development, directed by Julie Ann Emery and starring Carrie Preston. Also co-writing a young adult novel called VIRAGO with Julie Ann Emery and have been commissioned to write a play for Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts main stage called INTERIOR (Dir. Jessi Hill). I have been seen onstage in Chicago, New York and other lovely places. My web and tv work includes the ONION NEWS NETWORK and the award-winning web series THEN WE GOT HELP (written and directed by Julie Ann Emery). Proud member of AEA, SAG/AFTRA, Dramatists Guild and alumna of terraNova Groundbreakers. Member of both the Actors Studio Playwrights Division (2021-2024) and Rattlestick Theater’s Actors Who Write Lab. Level 1 Improv: Jenny Bareilles, The Pit

Photo by Frank Kuzler, PEASANT (solo show, writer-actor), director Dale Heinen