Career

As of 2007, she is the author of eight plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Innocence is a Sin, Killers & Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World, Monstrosity, and Scarcity. She was the recipient of the 2000/2001 Manhattan Theatre Club

Manhattan Theatre Club

Manhattan Theatre Club is a theater company located in New York City. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown since its founding in 1970 from an Off-Off Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most acclaimed...

 playwriting fellowship. Her play, Bottom of the World, was produced by WET

Wet

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 in the winter of 2005 and was previously workshopped at The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Center this past summer. Bottom of the World was part of The Tribeca Theater festival this past fall and received a workshop at The Public Theater. She attended New River Dramatists in North Carolina

North Carolina

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. Her play, Where We’re Born, was produced at Rattlestick Theater in the fall of 2003. Killers and Other Family was produced at Rattlestick Theater in 2001. Also in 2001, she was commissioned by The Keene Theater Company to write a short piece called The Kool-Aid Smile, which was presented in “Keene America.” She was a guest artist at The Perseverance Theatre twice, where she helped to adapt both Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, was written by American author Herman Melville and first published in 1851. It is considered by some to be a Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod,...

and Desire Under the Elms

Desire Under the Elms

Desire Under the Elms is a play by Eugene O'Neill, published in 1924, and is now considered an American classic. Along with Mourning Becomes Electra, it represents one of O'Neill's attempts to place plot elements and themes of Greek tragedy in a rural New England setting. It is essentially a...

. Her ten-minute play, Dinner, is published in a collection called Not So Sweet, 16 Plays From Soho Rep’s Ten-Minute Play Festival. She is a member of MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, Primary Stages’ writing group, and 13P.

In fall of 2007, her play Scarcity was produced by New York's Atlantic Theatre Company in its Linda Gross Theater. The play starred Kristen Johnston

Kristen Johnston

Kristen Johnston is an American stage, film, and television actress. She may be most famous for her role as Sally Solomon in the television series 3rd Rock from the Sun...

, Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Eisenberg

Jesse Adam Eisenberg is an American actor. He made his screen debut with the comedy-drama television series Get Real from 1999 to 2000...

 and Michael T. Weiss

Michael T. Weiss

Michael Terry Weiss is an American actor best known for playing the title role in The Pretender.-Early life:Weiss was born in Chicago, Illinois. His father was a steel-industry executive and his mother was a homemaker. He has a sister, Jamie Sue Weiss, who became a make-up artist for television...

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