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YSIA – Original play with music, Zoom reading Chicago Dramatists First Draft 2023

DERECHO – Zoom reading at Chicago Dramatists First Draft 2020. Featured in AACT 2021 pitch fest 

QUASI-POWER - Quarterfinalist in 2020 Screenplay competition

CARGO: A Semi Musical - Co-written with Dolores Díaz, concert reading at Chicago Dramatists Theatre 2022, partially funded by DCASE grant award  

MORALITY PLAY (score) – 3rd place in 2016 New Musicals Initiative(NMI) national awards in LA. Featured in MTEA catalog  

WAKING LAZARUS (book, lyrics and score) – Prologue Theatre April 2016 at Hairpin Arts Center, partially funded by DCASE grant award  

CHRONIC MALCONTENTS (book, lyrics and score) – Produced by Endpoint Theatre in 2013

TRAFFORD TANZI (score) – Commissioned by Prologue Theatre. Composed new score for 2014 production

FAIRWAYS: a musical (score) – Co-written with Mary Hutchings-Reed (book and lyrics). Produced by Steel Beam Theatre, St. Charles, IL 2006, 2010, 2017, Endpoint Theatre, Chicago in 2010. Recipient of IAC grant award

Messenger/Guard/Composer - Antigone, Athenaeum Center March/April 2025

Dante/Narrator – Lead role in Dante 360, Athenaeum Center November 2024

Ace - The Royal Antarctic Society, by Matt Smart, directed by John Gawlik, Jeff Award Winner, The Gift Theatre, Chicago - 2015

Mr. Patara - Gift Horse Grill, by Kristiana Rae Colon, directed by Leonicia Bongiorno, Chicago Dramatists, Chicago - 2015

Albert Einstein - Thee Trinity, by Rick Roberts, City Lit Theatre, directedChicago - 2014

Titus Andronicus -Titus Andronicus, DreamLogic Theatre, Chicago – 2011

Restored to Sanity Beatles Singalong - Musician and director for annual event since 2005 sponsored by Skyline Village and the Chicago Park District

DISPOSABLE VISIONARY: A survival guide for change agents, co-written with William Jerome, illustrated by Carin Powell, published by ABC-CLIO press.

Saturday Night Sunday Morning - Steppenwolf, Chicago IL 

Maco Lights, Tatjana in Colour - Prologue Theatre, Chicago IL 

Yellowman - Greentree Productions at Stage 773

Run for Your Wife - Brightside Theatre, Naperville IL

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Art, The Hobbit, Dinner with Friends, Rainmaker, The Henry Wallace Story, Lewis and Clark, Lion Witch and Wardrobe - Des Moines Playhouse, Des Moines IA 

Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables, Alexander and the Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, The Hobbit - Kate Goldman Theatre, Des Moines, IA 

Sound Designs also produced for theatres in DC, NY, CA, TX and AZ 

Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, Honk!, Secret Garden, Mikado, Schoolhouse Rock, Big the Musical, Annie, Pippi Longstocking, Mark Twain, Des Moines Playhouse, Des Moines IA 

Voice of the City, James and the Giant Peach, 12 Corners Church, Rochester, NY

M.A. Northwestern University in Interpretation/Performance Studies, studied with Frank Galati, Lila Heston, Wallace Bacon

B.A. Eastern Illinois University in English, graduate studies in Communications. Lead roles in productions of The Bacchae, John Brown’s Body, Up the System, Dracula Sabbat. Jack Rang and E.G. Gabbard directors. 

Musical Training in classical piano, pipe organ, French horn, violin. Choral member Martin Luther King Community Gospel Choir in Rochester N.Y. 

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