Honors, Awards, Affiliations,

Professional Experience

Bio

 

Actress: (Highlights)


  1. TV - 11 years - Daytime and Prime Time - The Doctors, Search For Tomorrow, The Haunting of Rosalind, Blessed Are The What, on major networks - NBC, CBS, ABC.

  2. Theatre - Opposite Al Pacino in Y Is A Crooked Letter and Creation of Monica in Robert E. Lee’s Sounding Brass.

  3. Film - Pate - major role of the Maid (official Sundance selection, plus over 15 awards including the Grand Jury Award at Worldfest Film Festival.)


Stage Director:


  1. NYC - over 35 productions in over 20 venues - with writers such as Pinter, O’Neill, Salinger, Chayefsky, Chekhov, Strinberg, opera composer Mark Grant, plus the introduction of 16 new playwrights whose work includes Chamber Opera, Performance Art, one person plays, and multi casts.


Production Director:


  1. 26th, 27 & 28th Annual John Lennon Tribute, A Celebration of Music, Dance & Theatre, Lincoln   Center, & Ailey  Citigroup Theater, NYC

  2. Music Humor &  Wisdom, Woodstock Fringe Festival, Woodstock, NY

  3. 29th Annual John LennnoTributute, Symphony Space, NYC 


Best Director:


  1. Jean Dalrymple Award - NYC for Countenance and Heart Sounds.


Artistic Consultant:


  1. New Renaissance Chamber Artists, NYC


Artistic Director:


  1. Friends Theatre Company, NYC - eleven years.

  2. In addition to NYC work, conducted Workshops of FTC out of the City in  the Catskills,  Fire Island, and the Jersey Shore, some of which ended up in NYC productions.


Governor:


  1. Honored by Industry - elected - one of two - representing acting - National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Organization for Emmy Awards) - New York Chapter.

  2. Received Emmy Disc Award for special contributions.


Blue Ribbon Panelist:


  1. Judging Daytime Performer Emmys - seven years.


Local TV Awards:


  1. Judging Emmy Awards for Washington DC, Chicago, and NYC.


Member of Board of Directors:


  1. New York Stage Company, NYC

  2. International Primal Association (IPA) - organization of therapists, psychologists, etc.

  3. Theatre Within


Chaired:


  1. IPA Convention - 22 Presenters, 30 Workshops; Keynote - William R. Emerson, Ph.D..


Subject of a Ph.D..:


  1. European Graduate School, Leuk, Switzerland

  2. On the connections between sensory introspective work, the effectiveness of artistic expression and its product: The emergence of the shared human spirit.

  3. Working Title: Luxurious Surrender; Working With Barbara Pitcher.


Guest Director Speaker:


  1. Pratt Institute, Manhattan

  2. Dramatist Guild, NYC

  3. (Both on several occasions.)


Resident Director:


  1. American Theatre of Actors, NYC (Permanent Resident Director.)

  2. The Theatre Within, NYC (Resident Performer/Director.)


Member of Professional Unions:


  1. Screen Actors Guild

  2. Actors Equity Association

  3. American Federation of Television and Radio Artists