I am a professional actor, director and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I have appeared at Berkeley Rep in Mother Road, at American Conservatory Theater as the Wicked Witch in Sam Pinkleton's acclaimed  take on The Wizard of Oz, and at San Francisco Playhouse as Miss Scarlet in the smash Clue. I received the Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding Actor for the title role in We Players' Mother Lear, which I also co-wrote and co-directed, earning nominations for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Director. 

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Scores of past appearances include the West Coast premiere of Native Son at Marin Theatre Company; Happy Days (Oh, les Beaux Jours) in the U.S. and France (in both English and French); The Wanderings of Odysseus at the Cacoyannis Theater in Athens, Greece; an eight-country multi-continent tour as the title character in Clytemnestra: Tangled Justice; Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet with We Players; a multi-nominated performance in the title role of Phèdre at Cutting Ball Theater; Boys Go to Jupiter at Z Space; Jerusalem at San Francisco Playhouse; and Dear Harvey at New Conservatory Theatre. 

Over twelve seasons and twenty-nine productions with Stanford Repertory Theater, I co-directed and acted in Moby Dick Rehearsed (for which I won Theatre Bay Area Awards for Outstanding Production, Directing and Acting), appeared in Hay Fever (nominated for Outstanding Production by the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle), Oedipus (hailed by the San Francisco Examiner critic as "the finest piece of classical drama I have ever seen") and many others.

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I studied theater at Yale University, where I worked with directors Tina Landau, Rick Lombardo, David Esbjornson, and Christopher Ashley, among others.  After Yale, I continued my work on stage and screen in Los Angeles. During a hiatus from acting I earned a law degree, representing children in child abuse cases from the trial level to the California Supreme Court.  

 

Since returning to the stage in 2006, I have played nationally (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Antonio, Jackson, Salt Lake City, and others) and internationally (Paris, Athens, Berlin, Amsterdam, Cardiff, Corfu, Sydney, Wellington, Auckland, and others). I starred in The Track, which was a film festival selection in Boston, Miami, Sun Valley, Sonoma and Las Vegas, and have appeared in the films Cold Call and widowbird. 

 

I taught a CSP Drama course at Stanford University for four years, in addition to twenty-five workshops on acting at six universities in the U.S. and twelve abroad. I developed and periodically teach a course entitled The View From the Stage: Theater History through the Actor's Lens. When I am not acting, I am an international coach in high performance communications, a mother of four, a lifelong equestrienne, and a part-time resident of Paris, France.