About
I’m a writer in San Francisco.
I’ve lived in eleven other towns, including Santa Fe, Amsterdam, Brooklyn, and Manhattan. I was born in Washington DC, in the same hospital that saved Ronald Reagan’s life when he was shot in 1981. Obviously, the two events were unrelated (and a few years apart), but I enjoy anchoring trivial details with the morbid and absurd.
My work has been published in The Stanford Social Innovation Review, Word Riot, Expatica, and I have received numerous reporting credits in the Village Voice.
Eight of my plays have been performed in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. I’m a member of The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, Theatre Bay Area, Theatre Communications Group, The Dramatists Guild, and PEN USA.
My performing arts background includes training from The Studio Theatre in Washington DC, The Ballet Academy of Northern Virginia, and Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.
I earned an MA and an MFA in Writing from New College of California and spent the summer of 2006 in Dublin completing the University of Iowa’s Irish Writing Program.
I changed my undergraduate major from Theater to Psychology at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico after I worked as a personal assistant to an unnamable actor. The experience helped me realize that even if one reaches the highest level of talent, fame, and wealth, as this actor had, it does not necessarily offer a sense of fulfillment. Thanks to my professors in the Social Science Department, I got involved in the community and local activism, even worked in Maximum Security at the state penitentiary. Finally, after three wonderful years in Santa Fe, I transferred to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, where I earned a BA in Forensic Psychology.
I have been very fortunate and could not have experienced such memorable times without the support of my family and friends.