She spent several years in New York and then attended the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco, receiving an M.F.A.
That play, Still Warm, is loosely based on the TV newswoman Jessica Savitch, and "became a precocious playwriting debut when it was produced at the Climate Theatre in 1991.
Directed by Howard Shalwitz, the cast featured Veanne Cox, Jeffrey Donovan, and Heather Goldenhersh.
"[8] Her play The Psychic Life of Savages won the New York Arts Club's $10,000 Joseph Kesselring Award.
Directed by Doug Hughes, the cast included Tim Blake Nelson as Wiliam Shakspere [sic], Mark Harelik as Edward De Vere, Mary Louise Wilson as Queen Elizabeth and Kate Jennings Grant as Anne Hathaway.
Called a "wonderfully wild and witty play" by Richard Wattenberg, it focuses on a master architect, Gregor Zubrowski, whose "single-minded pursuit of professional glory has stripped him of his humanity.
"[18] She wrote Hell to Pay, one of twenty works commissioned by the Berkeley Rep as part of The Food Project.
[21] She was one of five playwrights in the Arena Stage, Washington DC, new program "American Voices New Play Institute", starting in 2010 for three years.