RECENT NEWS:

  • Something Wild and Unruly, a cabaret written and performed by Meg MacCary premiered at Pangea on December 19th 2023 with direction by Sharone Halevy, musical direction by Michael Hicks and dramaturgy by me.

  • Tina deVaron and I were Artists in Residence at Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat again in August/September 2023 working on our new musical Female Complaints.

  • Marlowe Holden and I travelled to Maine for a Cellar Songs Residency at Cellar on Centre in August 2023 to work on I Live Here Now and a short screenplay based on my novella Old Mine Cut.

  • My story about a flying $20 bill was published in the New York Times “Metropolitan Diary” on June 18th, 2023

  • I was an Artist-in-Residence at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska in August/September 2022.

  • The Final Veil, a movement opera inspired by the life of Franceska Mann, co-created by JL Marlor and Cassandra Rosebeetle (with dramaturgy and additional text by me) premiered at the cell theatre in New York in July 2022.

  • Tina deVaron and I developed our new musical Female Complaints at VoxLab at Dartmouth College with a presentation on July 10, 2022..

  • Tina deVaron and I were Artists in Residence at Soaring Gardens Artist Retreat in May 2022 working on our new musical Female Complaints..

  • Damascus. It’s in Syria received a developmental grant from NYFA’s City Artist Corps and had a reading on October 20th at 7pm at A.R.T/New York.

  • Tina deVaron and I were Artists in Residence at Catwalk Institute in May 2021 working on our new musical.

  • Check out this interview with me in an episode of the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency podcast ROPE WALKER.

  • I was an Artist in Residence at Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency in Corsicana, Texas in January 2021.

  • Second Wife, a new short play for Zoom, was directed by Meredith McDonough and performed by Meg MacCary and Adam Patterson at As The Fates Allow, a holiday short play festival on December 18th at 7pm.

  • Damascus. It’s in Syria, a new digital play for Instagram, launched on September 26th. Directed by Sharone Halevy, performed and filmed by Marlowe Holden, with sound design by Alek Deva and lighting design by Marika Kent.

  • I dramaturged a reading of Uncle Vanya adapted and directed by Andrew Watkins, performed on zoom August 15th.

  • I Know When To Go Out and When To Stay In, my episodic play for Zoom produced by The Balcony Arts and directed by Kathleen Capdesuñer, is now on YouTube and IGTV.

  • I was a panelist for Woman in Language: Women and Wisdom, the third installment of the Woman in Language series at Columbia’s Lenfest Center for the Arts.

  • Grey Lady had a developmental workshop directed by Dara Malina as part of the New Works Initiative program at Montclair State University, Department of Theatre and Dance with a reading on October 11, 2019

  • Razorhurst had its Australian premiere at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney in June/July 2019, directed by Benita de Wit.

  • My piece about bringing Razorhurst to Sydney was published in AUDREY Journal.

  • I was a finalist for SPACE on Ryder Farm’s 2019 Season.

  • I was an Artist in Residence at Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland in April 2019.

  • Outlaw, a new musical about Ned Kelly, written with Andy Peterson and directed by Benita de Wit, was presented at VoxFest at Dartmouth College on June 29th, 2018.

  • A reading of Trash directed by Benita de Wit was presented at Studio Tisch on June 17, 2018.

  • I was an artist in residence at the Catwalk Institute in May 2018.

  • Damascus. It's in Syria. directed by Sharone Halevy performed by Marlowe Holden was presented at Dixon Place on May 19th, 2018.

  • Razorhurst, a new musical about Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine written with Andy Peterson, was produced at Luna Stage in February/March 2018.

  • An excerpt from a new untitled play was performed by Starr Kirkland as part of the Athena Writes Year-End Staged Reading on December 7th.

  • The Year Before the Civil War is published in The Dionysian Issue 004.

  • I was an artist in residence at the Catwalk Institute in July 2017.

  • The Reluctant Lesbian is now published! You can purchase a copy from The Drama Book Shop or from me directly! You can also buy it from Amazon.

  • A reading of Trash directed by Benita de Wit was performed at VoxFest at Dartmouth College on July 8th, 2017.

  • Songs and excerpts from Outlaw were performed at the Dixon Place Lounge on June 27th, 2017

  • My Girls Write Now mentee and I read a piece we co-wrote at CHAPTERS at the New-York Historical Society on June 16th, 2017.

  • Grey Lady was a finalist in the 2017 Columbia@Roundabout Reading Series.

  • Outlaw, a new musical about Ned Kelly written with Andy Peterson and directed by Benita de Wit, was workshopped at Barn Arts Collective with a public performance on May 26th.

  • My 10-minute play that parallel life was performed as part of Athena Theatre's A New Memory at Symphony Space on May 15th, 2017.

  • A monologue written especially for Sydney Mei Ruf-Wong was performed at PussyFest on Saturday April 22nd.

  • The Next War was named a Semi-Finalist for the 2017 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

  • Grey Lady was named a Semi-Finalist for the 2017 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Award of Excellence in Playwriting.

  • I took part in the CODEX Hackathon at the MIT Media Lab February 10-12, 2017 and wrote about it here.

  • A reading of The Next War directed by Sarah Krohn was performed at New Georges' The Room on January 26th, 2017.

  • I read a poem about the Women's March at #11/9 at TheatreLab on January 24th, 2017.

  • A reading of Hither Ditch was performed in the Mary Rodgers Room at the Dramatists Guild on November 18th, 2016.

  • The Drama Book Shop hosted a reunion reading/book signing for The Tutor at on October 6th, 2016.

  • My two-part series about theatrical exchange between Shanghai and New York is on HowlRound.

  • The Tutor was performed in Mandarin at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre as part of the Share Youth Creative Theatre Festival August 18-21 2016.

  • I participated in the Creative Capital Summer Intensive in August with artists from around the world.

  • The Tutor is now published! You can purchase a copy from The Drama Book Shop or from me directly! You can also buy it from Amazon.

  • Grey Lady was named a Semi-Finalist for the 2016 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship.

  • Grey Lady was workshopped at VoxFest at Dartmouth College, directed by Lillian King and performed on June 7th at 8pm at the Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

  • The Special Election was workshopped by the Bats, the Flea Theater's Resident Acting Company, and directed by Marina McClure in June 2016.

  • I graduated from Columbia's School of the Arts with an MFA in Playwriting on May 18th, 2016!

  • Strange Bare Facts, a trilogy about war and medicine and gender, was performed at the Ford Foundation Studio at the Signature Theatre May 11-14, 2016 as part of the Columbia New Plays Festival. The trilogy comprises of Grey Lady directed by Melissa Crespo, Hither Ditch directed by Marc Atkinson, and The Next War directed by Sarah Krohn.

  • The Tutor was produced at the Campus Theatre at the Shanghai Theatre Academy March 11-14 2016.

  • The Special Election was performed at Dixon Place on December 12, 2015. Marina McClure directed.

  • Five episodes of Cherry on Top were performed at #serials@theflea at the Flea Theater, August & October 2015, directed by Marina McClure and Srda Vasiljevic.

  • I was a Tennessee Williams Scholar in the Playwriting workshop with Paula Vogel and Dan O'Brien at the Sewanee Writers Conference, July 2015.