SELECT WORK
New York
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS, NEW YORK
Night Float and The Catherine Wheel by Craig Lucas
(world premiere)
AVERY FISHER HALL, LINCOLN CENTER, LITTLE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY
Babes in Toyland
ROSE STUDIO, LINCOLN CENTER
Golden Gate (world premiere of an opera)
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS THEATRE, U.S. TOUR
Papa, starring Len Cariou (New York premiere)
LUCILLE LORTEL, FORD’S THEATRE, PHILADELPHIA DRAMA GUILD
Mountain (world premiere)
TRIPLEX THEATRE (N.Y.), U.S. TOUR
Paul Robeson by Ossie Davis (book) and Jason Robert Brown (music)
WESTSIDE ARTS THEATRE
Daughters (New York premiere)
PLAYWRIGHT’S HORIZONS
Cold Sweat by Neal Bell
HUDSON GUILD THEATRE
HAMLET
Television and Film
Oz, Episode 5 for HBO, 2003
The Sarah Jones Show, a pilot for Bravo
Ordinary Sinner, a feature film starring Elizabeth Banks and Jessie Tyler Ferguson, director and producer. Winner, Slamdunk Film Festival, Audience Choice Award, Greenwich Film Festival. Premiered on television on Logo
It’s Always Somethin’, a musical film for RIPFEST
One Life to Live, Segment Director, ABC Television
Affiliated with SDC, DGA, DG, and WGA
Educational (selected credits)
AMERICAN ACADEMY FOR THE DRAMATIC ARTS, N.Y.C. AND L.A.
The Seagull, Spring’s Awakening, Curious Savage
FRENCHWOODS FESTIVAL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
Camelot
LAGUARDIA THEATRE
The Cherry Orchard, Cabaret, Our Country’s Good, The Antigone Project, The Me Nobody Knows, Vanities
Bio
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Writing and Dramaturgy
Playwright: When Stars Align with Carole Eglish-Kosoff, Waiting Room with Vanda Monaco, With the Sound Off, Enemy of the Good (semifinalist at the O’Neill Theatre Center),
Novels: eM, Mining the Dead, Gog and Me (in development)
Original Dramaturg: The Visitor, an original musical by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, including other musicals, teleplays, and screenplays
Los Angeles and Regional
CENTER STAGE, FEDERAL WAY
Cardinal Sins (world premiere)
MATRIX THEATRE, LA
When Jazz Had the Blues (world premiere)
ODYSSEY THEATRE
When Stars Align (world premiere)
INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE
Trying and End of the Rainbow
TAMKIN THEATRE, UCLA
The Waiting Room (world premiere) and The Catherine Wheel
LUNA STAGE, NEW JERSEY
Dangers of Electric Lighting (world premiere)
MARK TAPER FORUM, GEVA THEATRE
Planet Fires by Thomas Babe (world premiere)
U.S. TOUR, BUFFALO STUDIO ARENA
In the Sweet Bye and Bye, starring James Whitmore (world
premiere)
KENNEDY CENTER
Jim Thorpe by Saul Levitt (world premiere)
PHILADELPHIA DRAMA GUILD
Rocky and Diego starring Robert Sean Leonard (world premiere)
MUSICAL THEATRE WEST, SEATTLE CENTER THEATRE,
Eleanor (world premiere of a musical)
DALLAS THEATRE CENTER
Abundance by Beth Henley
THEATREWORKS USA (TOUR)
Many musicals for young audiences including Young Tom Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, First Lady, Tom Sawyer, and the long running Lion,
Witch, and the Wardrobe. Composers include Jason Robert
Brown, Joe Raposo, Gary William Friedman, John Forster, and Tom Tierney.
Education
M.F.A. in Directing from University of Southern California
B.A. from Stanford University
Additional training for film and television at UCLA and the Sony Institute