Exciting News: My TV Pilot/Series Dance Hall Girls was chosen as a Top 50 Finalist for the 2020 International Screenwriters' Association Fast Track Fellowship and placed as a Quarter-Finalist in the 2021 Southern California Screenplay Competition!  (It is listed here under My Screenplays.)

You can view my full background on my website, YourWritingMuse.com, but in short as a writer I have had:
• 16 plays produced (all for teens, children, and family-based audiences)
• 4 screenplays optioned (3 were romantic comedies, 1 was a "who-done-it" drama/thriller)
• 1 TV show optioned (a news/doc. half hour show)
• Animal Motions, a children's picture book and app published (book published by Indigo River Publishing, app published by Authorly)
• Sergeant Stubby in the Great War, a historical fiction novella published for 4th grade and up
• Have ghostwritten, edited, done research for, and helped market over 12 books with authors from Los Angeles to New York City (both fiction and non-fiction)
• Worked in Los Angeles as a writer-for-hire for many independent producers and at studios (including Martin Sheen's ESP Productions at Warner Brothers Studios)
• Was hired to write an animated feature film treatment (which included a lot of in-depth research)
• Have had articles published in Script magazine, InkTip.com's newsletter, and Scriptapalooza's newsletter
• Have been a judge in 2 screenwriting contests: CineStory's Screenwriting Competition in Chicago (for 2 years) and The Kingman Films International Screenwriting Competition in L.A. (for 1 year)
• Have been hired as a ghostwriter, script coach, editor, and researcher in all mediums

Other Work-Related Experience:
• I was the Artistic Director for The Sheil Park Players Theater in Chicago for 5 years (I produced and directed 22 original shows, all from writing workshops I ran which helped launch several playwrights' plays that went on to N.Y.C. and London theaters).