This is a big year for me!  

Can I just say that? I'm really excited about it.

First, I’m delighted to be the 2024 Creative Fellow at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts, where I will be collaborating with other artists, professional and non-professional, all year long.

Second, the book I’ve co-written with Arlene Malinowski entitled SOLO: Writing, Performing, and Producing Your One-Person Play, is currently being peer reviewed through our publisher, Northwestern University Press. We plan to spend all summer rewriting and incorporating our editor’s suggestions.

What else am I up to? As a teaching artist, I continue to create performance pieces and stories with collaborators ages 5 to 95. I’ve designed programs for children on everything from bullying prevention to etiquette to drama camps. At the Goodman Theatre, I teach storytelling and performance to adults as part of the GeNarrations program, and I'm an adjunct professor at The Theatre School at DePaul University.

As a writer, I work with 2nd Story, a collective of story-makers and story-lovers working together to build community through the power of storytelling. I have three original solo shows, Good Enough, The Half Life of Magic and Love Thy Neighbor…till it hurts, and I’m currently working on another.

I'm also an actor. I've worked in Chicago for 30 years, at theaters such as Victory Gardens, Northlight, Chicago Dramatists, Shattered Globe, Drury Lane, and 16th Street Theatre.

And I continue my work with Morten Group, a national consulting firm based in Chicago. I’m honored to be part of their curriculum development and facilitation team, working to build communities that embody racial equity, inclusion, and access.