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Fall 2024: I am honored that my work is included  in the 40th Anniversary edition of the Lincoln Center Theater Review. My article, WITNESSING HISTORY, reviews the development of Lincoln Center Theater (LCT) and compares its growth to the history of attempts across the United States to establish a national theater. I wrote the article because at the beginning of my professional acting career I appeared in the last production of the American National Theater (ANT) at the Kennedy Center. I'm proud to have been part of ANT and to be on the staff of LCT as it celebrates its 40th season.

July 2024:  Three poems and a brief memoir essay of mine are included in the eighth edition of the Bronx Memoir Project, published by the Bronx Council on the Arts!  It's available for sale here .

September 2021: LOVE-ADJACENT (OR BALCONY PLAYS), which was seen on Zoom in the 2020 Red Bull Theatre Short New Play Festival, is published in Volume 5 of the RED BULL SHORTS series! Order on Amazon here .

Summer 2021: Flint Repertory Theatre commissioned me to create a micro-audio play, THE QUESTIONS, for the Flint Mural Project. My play was available on the Flint Rep site (FlintRep.org)  June 5-August 31.  A live reading took place on June 19, 2021 at noon. on Flint's North Side in front of the mural depicting Martin Luther King, Jr.  and others in one of the Selma marches.     
     Flint Repertory Theatre, or The Rep, as it is known, encompasses the former Flint Youth Theatre, which I participated in as a teacher and performer. ( I appeared in one play and was a member of the Ten O'Clock Players, which traveled to  Flint Community Schools doing shows for students.)

May 2021: IDA UP FRONT, a tribute to Ida B. Wells-Barnett, with my lyrics and music by celebrated composer Laura Kaminsky, was included in the New York Festival of Song's virtual concert Define: Woman. (Concert was available through May 31 on the NYFOS.org site in the NYFOS@home section of the site.) 

October 2020: JUST ABOUT LOVE, my adaptation of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well set in Mississippi during Freedom Summer in 1964, had a concert reading on Zoom (pandemic mode!) on Wednesday, October 7 at 7pm thanks to the Harlem Shakespeare Festival. 

July 2020: My play LOVE-ADJACENT (or BALCONY PLAYS) was one of six plays selected through an open and blind submission process to be read in the 10th Annual Red Bull Theater Short New Plays Festival, performed on Zoom in 2020. The festival featured ten-minute, classically-inspired works.