My emotional GPS constantly confirms
that my creative life is a continual work in progress. It continues
to take me the longest way possible with directions that make Map
Quest look succinct. I’m not on the road less traveled. There is no
road, just a trail I make by hacking through with a machete.
Actually, most of my mileage has come
from driving around looking for parking spaces in New York City. I
parked most recently at the
Metropolitan Room with my original solo show, ENOUGH,
ALREADY! Prior to that, I lucked out, getting to park in the
same spot with IT’S ME!
 I was an original cast member
of the two-time MAC award winning show Bitch!Bitch!Bitch!
Here are the
1996 MAC Award
Best Comedy/Improv Group&
1997 MAC Award Best Comedy/Improv Group
announcements.
I parked twice at Don’t Tell
Mama in midtown with Under My Own Power, and
Reality
Fatality. My first solo show, A Serious Thinking Problem,
was squeezed into a tiny space downtown at Rose’s Turn.
I clocked in a few more miles when I
toured for two years as a performer with the USO.
My stand-up comedy
experience includes appearances at Caroline’s, NY Comedy Club and
Stand-Up New York. I also opened for Patti Austin at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music.
I
suspected early on that I suffered from “artism”. It manifested in
things like me playing variety show in the living room in the dark
or portraying a dress in a Mother’s Day play in the second grade. I
got into musical theatre as a young adult and it was a perfect fit.
I got to play such roles as “Rosemary” in How to Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying and “Miss Adelaide” in
Guys & Dolls. http://www.zilker.org
I was awarded two B Iden Payne Awards through the Austin Circle of
Theatres (Austin, TX); one for Outstanding Leading Actress in a
Musical and one for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical.
Participating in the musical theatre world was sort of like going to
high school. You have to get through high school before moving on to
college and grad school because even if you never aspire to higher
education, if you don’t graduate high school at some point, you
become much too old to be there. Stephen Sondheim said it best –
MOVE ON. I did.
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