About
I am a feminist theater director, dramaturg and educator specializing in new plays about social issues that affect women's lives.
As a feminist theater practitioner, I am committed to creating theatrical work by and about women, to practicing creative casting that puts as many female performers onstage as possible, to mentoring young women theater artists, and to using my work to promote a world where women's lives aren't understood as special interest stories, but rather as essential human stories.
I currently teach at the University of San Francisco in the Performing Arts & Social Justice Program. My regular courses include Theater and Social History; Sexuality, Performance and Culture; Theater in Elementary Education; and I direct mainstage productions.
In the Bay Area, I have directed and taught for Golden Thread Productions, Strange Angels Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Just Theater, Shotgun Players, Crowded Fire, Tenderloin Opera Company, Streetside Stories, Lunatique Fantastique, California Shakespeare Theater, Magic Theatre, New Conservatory Theater, TheatreWorks, and San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.
I hold an M.F.A. in Theater Directing from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in Religion from Princeton University. I live in San Francisco with my husband and two children.