My life-long love of the French language has been concurrent, and often synergetic with my work as a writer.  After studying theatre in the Drama Department at NYU in the early 1980s and completing my degree at the University of Maryland (with a minor in French), I went on to direct plays in several small theatres in and around the Washington, D.C., area.

A subsequent trimester at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris fed my determination to become bilingual. During my eight-years with the World Bank in Washington, D.C., I achieved that goal, and then returned to New York in 2003 to translate and write full-time.

Recent translation projects have included René Manzor’s Dédales for producer Victoria Wisdom, and Le Cercle Noir for Cinéquity Films, currently in production.

My short play Swamp Existentialists from Hyattsville, featuring two French-speaking dinosaurs, won top honors at the 1992 Washington Theatre Festival, and enjoyed a successful commercial run.  I have also written close to a dozen full-length TV scripts, screenplays, and stage plays. More recently, I was a finalist at the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriters Lab, and my original TV sitcom Out IN da WOOD was considered by a major cable network and comedienne Margaret Cho.  I am also writing a documentary about American actor training entitled ’68/’75:  How Juilliard and Yale Changed Actors and Acting.










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