Experience

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  SUNY New Paltz

  • Lecturer

    • 1995 - Present

    Playwright and Fiction Writer and PoetMentor to Writers on their new Dramatic, Fiction and Poetry Projects; Online help with new projects, 30 years experience that create results for writers.

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  Hudson Valley Poets

  • The Hudson Valley

  • Writer/ Editor/Mentor/Playwright/Educator

    • 1990 - Present
    • The Hudson Valley

    Writer of plays, fiction and poetry.FIRST PLACE WINNER of the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (for first short novel); Pancake Hollow Primer: A Hudson Valley StoryEditor: A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley (with Jan Zlotnik Schmidt), published by Codhill Press, distributed by SUNY Press.AWARDS:2014 First Prize: USA Best Book Award for Anthology (Fiction)2014 Winner: the "da Vinci Eye" Award for cover art, an Eric Hoffer Award2014 Finalist: The Beverly Hills Book Awards for Anthology2014 Finalist: Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Women's Issues2014 Finalist: International Book Awards: Chick Lit/Women's LiteraturePlaywriting Awards:2013 Finalist; Red Bull Theatre New Play Contest for Ophelia Cordelia2009 Best of the Festival Play Award: NYC Westside YMCA New Play Festival for Porch by Moonlight1984-85 Cited in the Burns Mantle Best Plays Series for Off-Broadway Play, Kennedy at ColonusRecipient of Playwriting Grants from The New York State Council on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Humanities.Recipient of numerous playwriting commissions from United States Regional Theatres (Virginia Stage Company; Studio Arena, Buffalo; GeVa Theatre et al)Fiction: The Wytheport Tales (micro fiction and prose poetry) Codhill PressPlays: (full length)Hamlet's LearVaudeville: A play with musicThe Wakeville StoriesThe Voyage of Mary C.Climbing Tiger MountainKennedy at ColonusLife in Wartime: Scrabble and Tablouli and Sarah's WarAn Editor at Codhill Press (Codhill.com) creating anthologies celebrating the best of Hudson Valley Writing in Prose, Poetry and Drama: (Riverine; WaterWrites; and A Slant of Light)

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  Indy Theatre Director

  • Director/ Playwright

    • 1968 - Present

    A Playwright and Director and co-translator of the works of Swedish writer August Strindberg. Also a Dramaturg and Mentor to playwrights and screenwriters, helping to realize their projects and get them into the marketplace.