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About Me
![]() Recent professional appearances include the title role in Mrs. Mannerly with Tipping Point Theatre Company and Julie in Pierrot, a SAG-approved film for Ringling College of Art and Design. Prior to that: Polish grandmother in a short SAG-approved student film called The 36; Mrs. William Jennings Bryan in Alleged: Reporting form the Monkey Trial, and the voices of Lulu the Llama and a peacock inThe Oogieloves in the Great Balloon Adventure. In October 2010, I directed the Midwest premiere of Gene Abravaya’s play The Book of Matthew Liebowitz. Early spring 2011, I created the role of Gretchen Manning in the world premiere of Mr. Abravaya’s feisty and poignant new play, The Final Scene. The comedy/drama was remounted in San Francisco, August 2011. I’m a member of three performance unions; I wish they’d stay out of politics and give their members more flexibility. Words on paper include my novella, Eavesdropping: A Little Novel, custom greeting cards and poetry, the children’s books Marvin’s Lump, And Peter Said Good-bye, and William’s Gift; and ghost-written books on raising escargot and breeding chickens. Also out there are published short stories and poetry, and I am super-glued to my bookshelf’s worth of novels, stories, and poetry in various stages of pre-publication. Among them: my novel based on Samson, Samuel, and Delilah, which was the deathbed legacy of a friend; and a humectant collection of stories and poetry about the tropics. See more on the Projects Tab. Now past are the week-long backpack trips in the remote wilderness, whether mountain, island, or valley. Give me a beach walk or a leaf strewn forest or a city street with houses that tempt me to try the front door. Give me good, and sometimes not quite good, movies; books I can’t put down and books I wish I couldn’t. Give me foods of varied color, spice, and texture. Give me friends of long acquaintance and new ones I wish I had known forever. Finally, I dislike writing bios. They say too much and too little. |
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