Presently Engaged In Teaching my unique writing class, Acting For Writers: Tunneling towards deeper characters and richer dialogue.  This is not a class for actors: it’s a class for writers, which uses acting techniques to uncover complexities in even your most tangential characters.

Experience, Past and Present:

Teacher

Organized and produced writing classes taught by Jincy Willett, Lisa Fugard, and Jamie Callan. Recognizing the struggle that so many writers had with dialogue and character development, I have created and taught Acting for Writers, utilizing my combined background in theatre and literature to develop exercises designed to get access to deeper veins of creativity.

Producer

Live!Lit, Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 2000-2004
Created, Produced and Directed Sunday Brunch Reading Series, Cabaret-Style. As a Board Member of Theatre Artists of Westport, I drew on a large pool of professional actors to present themed, dramatic readings of short fiction. I moderated the events, at times performed, and wrote program notes on the authors.

Produced and directed various events in NYC, including:

Classic Stage Company Benefit: Farewell Roast for Carey Perloff (secured the venue, recruited and coordinated the talent, directed the evening)

Classic Stage Company Benefit: Three Near Mythes (my triad of myth-inspired one-acts) starring E. Katherine Kerr

Backer’s Production of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot (Westside Theatre)

Board Member

Classic Stage Company, NYC 1989-1995
Served on the Board of one of New York City’s premier Off-Broadway Theatres, whose mission was to make the Canon of Classic Plays accessible to modern audiences. Was on the search committee to find a new Artistic Director to replace Carey Perloff (who moved to ACT in San Francisco).

Founding Board Member,  Signature Theatre

Writer, fiction 1970-present

Have completed a collection of short stories, a novel, a screenplay, and several plays.

Staff Writer for several nationally broadcast daytime dramas, including The Doctors and Loving.

Travel writer, East Side Extra

Hay Huggins: Writer/director/actor, industrial videos

Member of Writer’s Guild of America.

Actress 1975-present

Appeared in Lead Roles Off-Broadway, Regionally, and in Europe and the UK. Performed featured roles on the Soap Operas One Life to Live and Another World.

Member of AEA, AFTRA

Education

BFA, Boston Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA. Drama Major
MFA, Illinois State University, Normal, Ill. Drama Major, URTA Fellowship
British American Drama Academy/Yale School of Drama – Oxford Summer Program, Shakespeare Studies

Acting/dance classes in NYC with Michael Howard, Uta Hagen, Wynn Handman, Martha Graham, Luigi

Writing seminars/workshops at NYU, Provincetown Arts Center

Skills

Creative, resourceful, comfortable with people, one on one, in groups, or onstage. Passionate about literature. Skilled at producing, directing, performing, and writing.