Author: The Writer

Many thanks to the Lumos Players in Cincinnati for including me in their Playwright Reading Series this season.

Thank you to script reading team of Ashley Herbert, McKenzie Kugler, and Amy Haake-Rowland for believing in the play and choosing it.

Thanks to the actor-readers Laurie Barber, Tricia Cooper, Kat Falk, McKenzie Kugler, Alex Soldano, and Shannon Williams.

I’m delighted to share that three of my plays will have readings/discussions over a six week period in May and June of 2025.

“A Rare Medium” featuring one of Kate Warne’s cases as the first female Pinkerton, will be read on May 14 by the Lumos Players in Ohio. Kate and her team go undercover in the occult to thwart a pair of adulterous poisoners.

JUST A DROP featuring Giulia Tofana, herbalist and poisoner, will be discussed as part of The Athena Project’s Read ‘n Rant series in Colorado on May 19. Old and new enemies threaten Giulia and her dedicated circle of herbalists in 17th century Rome.

“The Voices” which is a contemporary 10-minute play, will have a table read at the LAVA Center in Greenfield, MA on June 29. A writer’s inner critcis externalize & give her a hard time as she tries to finish a contracted novel.

I’m absolutely delighted for these development opportunities, and grateful to the theatres supporting them.

I’m delighted that one of my plays about Kate Warne, the first female Pinkerton, has been accepted as part of a staged reading series by the Lumos Players in Landon, Ohio.

“A Rare Medium” follows Kate and her team on a long undercover operation as psychics to thwart an adulterous poisoner couple — with some interesting twists. Inspired by one of Kate’s real cases.

Details and ZOOM link to the performance to follow. It will be read in May of 2025.

“The Effie Effect” recorded on November 12, out on the west coast. Now we’re headed to post-production.

Heartfelt thanks to actors Sean Faye, Rebecca Larsen, Pat Towne, and Leigh Wulff for the joy, dedication and talent they brought to the work.

Also deep thanks to director Jaime Robledo, producer Rebecca Lynne of Dean Productions, sound designer Dean Jackson and composer Ryan Johnson.

What a great team! Grateful to be part of it.

I’ll post the release date once we have it.

My comic noir mystery “The Effie Effect” is in rehearsal with Dean Productions.

The cast & director are in LA, so I’m ZOOMing in for rehearsals and production meetings.

So delighted to work with this talented group!

Thank you so much to the Barr Hill Players and the delightful cast for the SERENE & DETERMINED reading at La Mama Galleria on July 17. It was an honor and a privilege to work with them. The joy and commitment they took in the work was wonderful.

I’m delighted to announce that my comic noir mystery play “The Effie Effect” is contracted to Dean Productions Theatre in LA for audio production in their “Premiere the Play” 2025 series.

The piece will record this autumn and release next summer.

The play had a staged reading as part of “Play With Your Food” Festival on Cape Cod a few years ago; I rewrote it last year and submitted the new draft to this theatre, and it was the right match.

I’m very excited to work with them over the coming months.

I’m delighted that my plaly SERENE & DETERMINED, about the painter Lavinia Fontana, will have a staged reading by the Barr HIll Players at La Mama Galleria in NYC in July.

This play was originally created as part of the 365 Women a Year Playwrighting Project, and has been through several drafts since.

I’m delighted it will come to life, and very thankful to the Barr Hill Players.

Deepest thanks to the Fenimore Art Museum, The Glimmer Globe Theatre, production manager Mike Tamburrino, director Mary Davis Fralick, and the cast: Angela Cobb, Thomas Fralick, Judy Greenburg, Sheila Lenk Ayres, Sharon Rankins-Burd, Tom Russo, Michael Trainor, and Amy Wyant.

Thank you for the time, dedication, and collaboration to bring the words on the page to life!

I’m delighted that my full-length drama about grief and its consequences, FALL FOREVER, will be given a staged reading by the Glimmer Globe Theatre on April 7, 2024 at the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY.

This play was born in a workshop hosted by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and written during the Dramatists Guild End of Play Program in 2023, and then given a virtual reading. It was then rewritten before being sent out on submission.