[1][2] She wrote and acted in the play Stuck!, about "one woman's courageous struggle to get out of a locked basement bathroom at a coffee house and reclaim control of her stalled life", which debuted in New York in 2008.
[4] Franks founded SPARKy Productions in 1998, a group dedicated to highlighting social justice issues via creative performance, and acts as its artistic director.
[5] The film festival culminated in 2016 with Franks' production of The Hispanic Women's Project.
Ian Anderson, the principal songwriter for Jethro Tull, has said, "[she] in fact was responsible for lyrics in the first couple of verses ...
moved to Los Angeles and married screenwriter and novelist Jeffrey Price.