I am here to collaborate with artists and organizations to uncover creative, innovative solutions to the challenges we face in our field today. With over 35 years of experience in the field, I bring deep, hands-on knowledge—and a process-driven, artmaking lens—to every collaboration. I believe in tapping into our creative process as artmakers to navigate complexity and surface potential pathways.
I am the Founding Artistic Director Emeritus of HERE, an award-winning progressive arts center in lower Manhattan where I cultivated artists and programs all events for two performance spaces over 30 years–including 18 OBIE-award winners –for an annual audience of 30,000. I also co-founded and co-curated PROTOTYPE, a groundbreaking city-wide annual opera and music theatre festival, producing 13 celebrated editions.
My work has been recognized with an OBIE Award for Lifetime Achievement, a Proclamation from the NY State Assembly for steadfast leadership at HERE, a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade for outstanding contribution, a Leader to Watch by Art Table, and a BAX10 Award for Arts Leadership.
As a dedicated cultural advocate and political organizer, I’ve led art actions, advised policymakers, served on arts boards and panels for the NEA, TCG, NYSCA, DCLA, and ART/NY. I currently serve on the NYC Theatre and Live Performance Industry Council as well as on Community Board #2 in NYC. I volunteer on legislative strategy for NYS Assemblymember Harvey Epstein. I served as Co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women. I regularly teach and lecture on directing, creative producing, and arts leadership at universities nationwide.
As a director and writer of hybrid work based in NYC, I have created 36 works for the stage. I work in a collaborative, process-driven way to fuse different disciplines into a cohesive whole. Selected premieres: BAM, HERE, Ohio Theatre, and Soho Rep. Selecting touring: 7 Stages, Berkshire Festival, Brown, MCA, New World, Painted Bride, Perishable, UMass, Moscow Art Theatre and Oslo. Selected workshops: Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theatre, and Target Margin. Recipient of two prestigious MAP Fund awards and reviews in all major NY media.
I am also a co-founder of the tiny mythic theatre company and a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts with honors.
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