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Training

The New School for Drama MFA Candidate in playwriting, 2006- 2007

Instructors: Laura Maria Censabella, Christopher Shinn, Michael  Weller, and Pippin Parker 

Indiana University BA in theatre, focus in Playwriting, Graduated May 2006

Instructor: Dennis Reardon

Plays

New York, New York 10-Minute 

     Premiered at the Estrogenius Festival October 2008

     Published 2009 by Manhattan Theatre Source 2009

(w)hole One-Act

     Staged at the Samuel French Off-Off  Broadway  Festival (2008)

The Mercy Swing Full-Length

      Part of The New York International Fringe Festival,  (2007)

      Nominated for a 2010 Cherry Lane Mentorship.

How-To-Play- Football-And-Be-A-Man 10-Minute (2007)

Jewels: An Upper East Side Adaptation of Miss Julie One-Act (2007)

The Four Questions: An Assimilation Story One-Act (2007)

Playing God Short Play

     Premiered at The Bloomington Playwrights Project (2005)

Home 10-Minute (2005)

Far From Perfect  One-Act (2004)

Best Friends Monologue

     Premiered  at The Bloomington Playwrights Project (2004)

Voices One-Act (2003)

Screenplays 

Nella Famiglia (In English)  Full-Length Screenplay (2006)

Additional Experience

Jon San Miguel Productions (2001), Writer/Facilitator, “Dying to get There, The Real Cost of Teen Driving” Award Winning Educational Video 

Languages Spoken: Italian, Hebrew, Spanish and Luganda