Acting, Directing, and Original Work

Directing Experience (selected)

Antígona Furiosa (Griselda Gambaro)— The Active Group at the Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center 2000.

Container For A Life — Hotel Utah, San Francisco 1988: Original text combined with text on bees from How to Imagine by Gianfranco Baruchello: cabaret performance with film and dance exploring memory, sensation and desire.

Sheltered Lives — The Lab, San Francisco 1987: Original text: song cycle for three dancers on the relation of architectural imagery and the female body; installation incorporating paper and fabric sculpture; vocal score and electronic music by Thomas Miley.

Still Life — Centerspace, San Francisco 1986: Adaptation of Chekhov spoken and sung by four dancers; includes material from “The Grasshopper,” Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, and The Cherry Orchard.

Earthwork and Curves — New Performance Gallery, San Francisco 1983: Original text and excerpts from John McPhee (In Suspect Terrain) and Samuel Beckett (Watt): exploring geological processes, places; collaboration with dancer Laura Lipman Clark.

Private Transportation — Brand X Studio, San Francisco 1982: Adaptation of Stanley Crawford’s surrealistic novel Travel Notes: exposition of travel fantasies and nightmares.

Monologue of the Lady Voyager — Choreographers’ Workshop, San Francisco 1981: Original work based on Carlos Fuentes’ Terra Nostra and life of Juana la Loca: travelogue on loss and loneliness.

Blueprint for a Season on the Riviera — Choreographers’ Workshop, San Francisco 1981: Text drawn from Diary of Polina Suslova and Biography of Malcolm X: vacation and revolution.

Deliberation and Decorum — Bay Area Performance Alliance 1980: Adaptation of “The Waltz” by Dorothy Parker.

The Fefu Project — Kearney Street Project, Portland, Oregon 1979: Adaptation of Maria Irene Fornes’ Fefu and Her Friends.

Saudades — Moving Space, Portland 1979: Adaptation of Gunther Eich’s radio play The Rolling Sea at Setubal: creation and destruction of a world based on nostalgia; collaboration with Jean Graham.

The Lesson (Eugene Ionesco) — Lewis and Clark College 1979, guest director.

The Ride Across Lake Constance (Peter Handke) — Oregon Free Studio Theater 1977.

Acting/Theatre (selected roles)

Monsters and Marvels (Marta) — Heliotrope Theatre Company, New York

Shema (Magda) — MS 51 Guest Artist, Brooklyn

Amnesia (Margaret) — La Mama, New York

Toyer (Maude) — Arena Players Rep, Long Island

Pas de Deux (Nadezhda von Meck) — Hofstra USA, Long Island

Hamlet (Gertrude) — Arena Players Rep, Long Island

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Martha) — Ivy Lane Repertory, Long Island

The Foreigner (Catherine) — Ivy Lane Repertory, Long Island

Top Girls (Isabella Bird) — Partly Free Theater, Athens, Georgia

Ag Nature (Usury) — Ma Fish Co, Berkeley and Chicago

The Seagull (Arkadina) — Portland Conservatory Theater, Oregon

Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Joan) — PCT/Eric Overmyer, Dir.

Tom Paine (Major Domo, Simone) —NEH Touring Company, Oregon

Acting/Film

The Wake (Sheila) — UCLA/Nino Rodriguez, Dir.

Antebellum Bedlam (War Icon, Geisha) —  Margaret Fisher, Dir.

Illegal Alien (Limburger) — Jeff Baker, Dir.