About

My Mission

Kids inspire me and so does musical theater. Using a measure of both, I write musicals that tell stories of unlikely, unsung heroes; a girl who fights her computer from a wheelchair, a boy who creates a green monster that can only sing. I aim to write stories that are honest, fast moving and believable--yet full of magic. And I don't write happy endings, just satisfying ones. I want to see young people and their families as both actors and audience for my work. I want to show them that musical theater is every bit as gripping and in many ways more alive than an action film.

Selected Productions

• Thirteenth Street Repertory Theater (NYC) "A Show of Hands"
• Upper Darby Summer Stage (PA) "A Little Princess" , "The Secret Garden"
• The Magic City Children's Opera Company (AL) "The Wind in the Willows"
• Hedgerow Theater (PA) "The Wind in the Willows"
• Central High School (PA) "A Show of Hands"
• Freelance Players (MA) "Frankenteen"
• The Young Peoples Theatre (TX) "The Wind in the Willows"
• Avalon Players (NJ) "The Wind in the Willows"
• Washington Yeshiva High School (DC) "The Secret Garden"
• The York Little Theater (PA) "The Wind in the Willows"

New York City Productions

• Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (Reading) "Amy Crockett: MVP"
• Thirteenth Street Repertory Theater "A Show of Hands"

Published Articles

• Teaching Theater Magazine "Journal of a Middle School Musical"
• The Dramatist "Sign on the Dotted Line"
• The Dramatist "Write It And They Will Come"
• Creative Dramatics Magazine "Shakespeare, She Wrote"
• The Dramatists Guild Quarterly "A Playwright for Youth Speaks"