Check out my NEW PROJECT on the Works in Progress page!
work in progress
work in progress
Lucky Me!
Lucky Me!
I've been hired to turn a popular Amazon book,
THE ROAD TO LATTIMER
into a movie!
In the late 1800s, a family of poverty-stricken Eastern Europeans travel 5,000 miles in search of a more prosperous life in America, only to find a new struggle in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, culminating in the Lattimer massacre.
thank you!
2017 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival
thank you!
2017 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival
I am so grateful to have won Best Screenplay for MY OLD MAN. Writing this story was a labor of love. It is a character-driven drama about a 40-year-old widow on the verge of suicide who picks up a 99-year-old man hitchhiking. As their relationship unfolds, he helps her to live and she helps him to die, and along the way, wounds are healed and fences are mended. l believe this is a universal story, and my fingers are crossed that this story will make it to production.
Lost Women of American History
Lost Women of American History
After working as an actor and theatre director, I founded a small professional theatre in Sedona, Arizona, the Actors Repertory Theatre of Sedona.
One weekend while exploring the state, I walked right into the middle of NELLIE CASHMAN DAYS in Tombstone, Arizona. After doing some research I was astounded that I had never heard of this remarkable woman, an Irish immigrant and gold miner who helped to settle the Wild, Wild West.
I wrote my first bio-pic about Cashman, and the rest is history - literally. This slideshow is just a peek at the trailblazers who inhabit the world of the
LOST WOMEN OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
You'll never guess what I'm doing now
You'll never guess what I'm doing now
The summer of 2019 I got a job teaching Screenwriting at a university in Virginia. I packed up my belongings and my two cats and moved the 2500 miles cross country (which could have been an episode of I Love Lucy, but I digress). I taught for one semester before my world, and everyone else's, changed dramatically. So there I was in Richmond, Virginia, wondering what would happen next.
I'm like a lot of other people - when the Corona Virus came along, I didn't think it would last long. I felt lucky that I had enough savings to keep me going for few months, so I hunkered down, ate a lot of cake (my personal comfort food), watched TV, and waited until I could go back to acting, directing, and writing, and teaching. When it became clear the quarantine wasn't going to end for a while, I started to panic. I was recently divorced, now with no savings left, and no family I could call on for help. In other words, I had nothing to fall back on.
But that was a lie. I had myself to fall back on. I had a lot of creativity, time, energy, and a sewing machine. Inspired by Project Runway, I started making hats (something else I love to design). Unfortunately, hats - at least the kind I was making - require a fitting. So now what? Then a friend (thank you, Doug!) reminded me that 20 years ago I made Christmas stockings to give to my friends as holiday gifts. In fact, he sent me a picture to illustrate how well they held up. I was surprised - and a little honored - that his family had passed those down from generation to generation. So I started making Christmas decor.
Soon I added something that I have made all my life - desserts! Check out the website and go to the page for The Sweet Shoppe. Maybe you'll find something there you'd like.
But whatever you do, stay well!!