Writer, filmmaker and solo performer with a background as a classically trained pianist, drummer, and clinical social worker with 20+ years of experience working with refugees, immigrants, and youth nationally and internationally. I write character-driven, heartfelt comedies that celebrate the absurdity of being human. Entrepreneurial nonprofit executive and health tech sales leader. Also, a fledgling sousaphone player.
Experience
2025 Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Actor: SYMPTOMS (Short Film) Companion Piece to The Final Countdown.
2023 Screenwriter: NIBLING: A MIDWESTERN ODYSSEY (Hour Comedy/Magical Realism Pilot). Stowe Story Labs Writers Room Selected Project
2022 Screenwriter: THE FINAL COUNTDOWN (Half-Hour Comedy Pilot). Stowe Story Labs - Stowe/Sidewalk Narrative Lab Selected Project. CineStory Foundation Television Retreat Quarterfinalist
2021 Screenwriter: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTERS (Hour Comedy Pilot), Co-written with Magie Crystal. Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, Screencraft Semifinalist
2021 Actor: Louise, Steep Town (S1, E5), Web Series Directed by Olivia Parrot
2018 Solo Theatre: BRAVO 25: YOUR A.I. THERAPIST WILL SEE YOU NOW, The Marsh, San Francisco
Directed by David Ford. Wrote and performed this Sci-Fi comedy starring an AI avatar and six humans. In addition to a 10 week run at The Marsh, self-produced the show at various festivals and venues in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles (2015 - 2018). The ENCORE Producers’ Award Winner (2017) - Hollywood Fringe Festival
2018 Solo Theatre: HOW TO LOVE A REPUBLICAN, Times Unseen Festival - The Marsh, San Francisco
Directed by David Ford. Wrote and performed this autobiographical piece about loving my two Trump-voting dads.
2018 Actor: Fran, OEDIPUS AT PALM SPRINGS, Theatre Rhinoceros, San Francisco
2016 Solo Theatre: AND NOW, NO FLIP FLOPS?! The LGBT Center, San Francisco
Directed by David Ford. Wrote, performed and produced this autobiographical comedy about lesbian divorce. Toured in festivals in NYC, Providence RI and California (2014 - 2016)
1997 Screenwriter: MEMORIES DO NOT BURN (Documentary), Directed by Paul Dokuchitz and Marianne McCune, Narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker. Family Award Winner, USA Film Festival
1995 Solo Theatre: DIALOGUES WITH MADWOMEN, Brady Street Theater, San Francisco.
Directed by Anne Marie Falge. Wrote, performed and produced this semi-autobiographical magical realism comedy about the madness of war.
Essay
2020 STRUGGLING TO LOVE MY TWO TRUMP-VOTING DADS, Medium
An in-depth examination of my inability to come to terms with political differences in my family, interspersed with comedic challenges caring for my partner’s five pound chihuahua.
HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP
2015 - Present National VP, Jumbo Account Sales, OMADA HEALTH
Lead sales with employers with 60K+ employees. During tenure at Omada, have closed more than 25M covered lives and developed partnerships with regional and national health plans and clinics. Co-led clinical research on health tech accessibility with low-income populations.
2000 - Present Licensed Clinical Social worker, California (License 22320) | Oregon (L3256)
2008 - 2015 Founding Executive Director, CLINIC BY THE BAY
Established innovative health clinic that leverages pro bono services, particularly retired health care professionals, to provide free primary, preventive and oral health care to the working uninsured. Led revenue growth from 227K to 1.3M in 5 years; funds development with individuals, corporations, small businesses and foundations
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Microbudget Producing - The Gotham Film & Media Institute, 2024
Mentorship with Melody Cooper, Stowe Story Labs, 2023
Stowe Story Labs - The Writers Room - 2023, Writers’ Retreat- 2022, Narrative Lab - 2022
TV Writing and Pitching Classes - Script Anatomy, UCB 2018-2022
Developing Solo Work with David Ford, 2014 – 2020
Voice Coaching with Mindy Lym, 2016
Acting with Robert Weinapple, 2015 | with Andrew Wood, 2005
Fellow – CHCF Healthcare Leadership Program, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 2013 - 2015
Master of Social Work, Smith College, Northampton, MA 1999
Bachelor of Arts in Music and Literature, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 1992
Composition and Classical Piano: Mannes College of Music, New York, NY 1991