I have been seriously writing and producing plays since 1982, but my not so serious stage work goes back some years earlier.  In 1982, when I finished my first script I became involved with a wonderful group, The Bloomington Playwrights Project which was one of the first of the many such organizations around the country.  The Project  is currently celebrating 25 years of supporting and producing new playwrights from around the country and the world.  My plays have been performed in New York City, Bloomington, Indiana, Athens, Georgia, Brewton, Alabama, and Montpelier, Vermont.

I have worked as a director and educator as well as a playwright.  I have been teaching  theater in college since 1987.  I have also worked in children’s theatre and as a professional actor in summer repertory theatre, most recently with the Highlands Playhouse in Highlands, North Carolina.  I am currently working with an exciting new group called the Vermont Playwrights Circle and am involved with Moxie Productions, another Vermont group developing new works for the stage.  For the past few years, I have served as dramaturge, consultant, and workshop leader with Lost Nation Theater in Montpelier, Vermont. 

I currently teach English literature and composition, speech and technical theatre at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.  I received my M.A. in creative writing from Indiana University and an M.F.A. in playwriting and a Ph.D. in drama from the University of Georgia.  I was awarded a Masters Fellowship in the Individual Artist Fellowships Program sponsored by the Indiana Arts Commission and am a recipient of the Ralph L. Collins Fellowship from the Indiana University Writers Conference. 

I also  have four beautiful daughters scattered around the country and live in Northfield Vermont with my husband, F. Brett Cox,  Brett is a college professor, critic, and fiction writer. He and I are each other’s biggest fans.