Member of the Dramatists Guild.

Honors and Awards:

2002 - National League of American Pen Women, Certificate for outstanding achievement in letters, May 2002

2001 - Quarter-finalist, The Big Australian Screenwriting Competition for GO HOME, DAVE!

2001 - Semi-finalist, Academy Foundation Nicholl's Fellowships for screenwriting for GO HOME, DAVE!

2000 - Second Round, Austin Film Festival Screenplay
Competition for CONDUIT

2000 - Finalist, Smith Entertainment/Scr(i)pt Magazine's
Screenwriting competition for CONDUIT

1999 - Quarter-finalist, Academy Foundation's Nicholl's
Fellowship for Screenwriting for THE ORACLE OF 
JERALD'S BAY

1999 - Quarter-finalist, FADE IN: Magazine's Screenwriting
Competition for THE ORACLE OF JERALD'S BAY

1998 - Awarded State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship
in screenwriting for SALVADOR DALI SKIES

1998 - Winner of the McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting
Competition, Midland Communty Theater, Midland, TX
for HEAVING BOSOMS, HAIRY CHESTS

1998 - Finalist, FutureFest National Competition of New 
Plays, Dayton Playhouse, Dayton, OH for HUNGRY TO 
BE TOUCHED

1997 - Semi-finalist, McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting 
Competition, Midland, TX for GO HOME, DAVE!

1997 - Semi-finalist, Memphis Theatre New Play Competition, 
Memphis, TN for GO HOME, DAVE! 

1996 - Quarter-finalist, The Writer's Network Screenplay
competition for PRACTICAL LOVE and MY BROTHER'S
KEEPER

1996 - Finalist, The Phoenix Theatre's Festival of
Emerging American Theatre, Indianapolis, IN for
THE NIGHT IS SO LONG

1995 - One of 10 finalists in the National Repertory
Theatre Foundation's National Play Award for POWER
IN THE BLOOD

1993 - Winner of Dayton Playhouse "FutureFest" a national
competition for new plays, Dayton, Ohio for POWER
IN THE BLOOD

1993 - "Best Locally Written Play" by the New Times 1993
Best of Miami, Miami, FL for POWER IN THE BLOOD

1992 - Awarded State of Florida Individual Artist's Grant
for playwriting for POWER IN THE BLOOD

1991 - Honorable Mention, Florida Individual Artist's
Grant for playwriting for A SHORT TIME OF NEAR
PERFECTION

Plays - Productions and Staged Readings:

2001 - THE SUPERINTENDENT, Off-Broadway production scheduled
for Spring 2001, play commissioned by private
individual as memorial to a New York State educator,
comedy. July - August at Urban Stages Theatre, full-production

2002 - LEAD ME TO HEARTBREAK. Acrosstown Repertory Theatre, January 25 and 26, Gainesville, FL full production.

2000 - THE SUPERINTENDENT, staged reading, Acrosstown Repertory
Theater, Gainesville, FL, November 2000

2000 - DANCING WITH THE BAD MAN, Riant Theatre
New York, NY, September 2000

2000 - THE SUPERINTENDENT, staged reading, March 13, 2000,
Urban Stages, New York, NY

1999 - HEAVING BOSOMS, HAIRY CHESTS, Midland Community
Theater, Midland, TX, May 7th - May 22nd, 1999

1998 - HEAVING BOSOMS, HAIRY CHESTS, Midland Community 
Theater, Midland, TX, August 1998

1998 - HUNGRY TO BE TOUCHED, Dayton Playhouse, Dayton, OH,
July 1998

1998 - POWER IN THE BLOOD, staged reading, Urban Stages,
New York, NY, March 16, 1998

1997 - POWER IN THE BLOOD, staged reading, Florida Studio Theatre,
Sarasota, FL, October 19, 1997

1997 - A SHORT TIME OF NEAR PERFECTION, staged reading, Urban Stages Mondays at the Merc, New York, NY, March 3, 1997

1997 - DANCING WITH THE BAD MAN, Theatre Studio, New
York, NY, March 2, 1997

1996 - I'M SORRY, Creative Productions, Inc.,
Aberdeen, NJ, November 1996

1996 - MARLAN IN THE PARK, The Loft Production Co., Tampa
Bay Performing Arts Center, Tampa, FL, July -
August 1996

1996 - THE DRUMMER, Studio Z Monologue Show, Chicago, IL,
January 1996

1995 - TREASURES, Genesee Theater, Danville, NY, October
1995

1995 - SHOOTING DOVES, Act 1 Theatre, Brisbane,
Australia, July 1995

1994 - A SHORT TIME OF NEAR PERFECTION, Miami Actors
Studio, Miami, FL, January 1994

1993 - POWER IN THE BLOOD, staged reading, Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota, FL, August 1993

1993 - POWER IN THE BLOOD, staged reading, Dayton Playhouse, Dayton, OH,
July 1993

1993 - POWER IN THE BLOOD, staged reading, Miami Actors Studio, Miami, FL, January - March, 1993

1991 - I'M SORRY, SoHo Repertory Theater, National Theatre Workshop for the Handicapped Festival of Short Works, New York, NY, December 1991

1991 - A SHORT TIME OF NEAR PERFECTION, Acrosstown Repertory Theatre, Gainesville, FL, January 1991

1990 - PARTING COMPANY, Acrosstown Repertory Theatre,
Gainesville, FL, October 1990

1990 - I'M ANDY, PETE AND MAX, BABY, Acrosstown Repertory
Theatre, Gainesville, FL, July - August 1990
 

Publications:

August 1994 - DOGLAND, short story, THE SUN magazine

1994 - 2000 - numerous magazine features and cover stories on a variety of topics as a freelance writer
 

Teaching:

1994 - 2000 - Workshops in Freelance Magazine Writing, Periodicals Contracts for Freelance Writers, Beginning and Advanced Screenwriting and Playwriting