Résumé
Stage Director / Filmmaker / Published Author
Accomplishments & Projects
Theater
- Feb. 19, 2025: Directed “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen,” a one-act by Tennessee Williams, at the Kentwood Players’ Westchester Theatre, Los Angeles. The cast featured Sofia Vassilieva and Curtis Belz, both lifetime members of the Actors Studio.
- Dec. 9, 2024: Directed “Favorite Things” by Janice Kennedy for LAFPI (Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative), Los Angeles.
- Active member of the Group Repertory Theatre company as a director.
- Co-producer and Director of four staged play readings at Women in Theater, Los Angeles.
- Board Member, Odyssey Theater, Los Angeles. Worked with Artistic Director Ron Sossi.
Film & TV
- 2024-2025: Co-creator of a television miniseries about the history of radio and TV, their inventors and usurpers.
- The film and television rights to “The Stalker” were optioned twice.
- Sold distribution rights to “The Ultimate Warrior,” a Warner Bros. film starring Max Von Sydow.
- Production Executive on “City on Fire” starring Shelley Winters and Leslie Nielsen.
- Production Executive on “Jaguar Lives!” starring Donald Pleasance and Barbara Bach.
Literature
- Writing a memoir titled “Paper Skin” about my earlier lifelong struggle with gender identity, my transition from male to female—and its startling aftermath.
- Editor of “The Muleskinner Journal,” a respected online literary journal.
- Author of the classic psychological horror novels “The Wilds” and “The Stalker,” both in rerelease.
Education
- Studied with the late Rachel Rosenthal in her performance-art intensive. Rosenthal was the doyenne of improvisational performance art worldwide.
- B.A. Beloit College. Double major in Comparative Literature and International Relations. Studied theatre.
- Degree from the University of Paris-Sorbonne. Majored in French Civilization. Studied and worked in France for several years. Fluent in French.