RESUME

PRODUCTIONS

Coming Home

Director, Piyush Kumar

Same Boat Theater

6 Live and recorded performances on Zoom

February-April, 2021

The Flood

Director, Merrill Gruver

The Un-Scripted Theater Company

February- April, 2017

Wolves

Director, Rem Myers

Actors: Wiley Naman Strasser/Campbell Zeigler

July 7-August 22, 2015 Living Rooms, Theatres and Convalescent Homes in

Berkeley &

San Francisco, CA

Frances and Leon

The Un-Scripted Theater Company

Director, Stacey Mayer

September 7, 2014

Kori & Alo (A Play for Bunraku Figures)

Created with Luis Tentindo – Figures & Paul Heller – Text

Director, Luis Tentindo

Full Production Southern Illinois University, X-Fest, June, 2012

& at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, August, 2013

Would You Still Be You (A Shadow Play)

Created with Luis Tentindo – Shadow Puppets & Paul Heller – Text

Director, Luis Tentindo

Full Production December, 2011 The Construction Company, 10 East 18th Street

New York, NY

Hickory Miles

Novato Theater Company, Novato Theater Company Playhouse, Novato, CA

Director, Bruce Coughran

Full Production August 4-14, 2011

Kanrin Maru

2010 Mary Sano Dance Company, San Francisco, CA

Director, Mary Sano

Full Production December 5, 2010, Brava Theater, San Francisco.

Beijing, California

Asian American Theater Company, Thick House, San Francisco, CA

Director, Duy Nguyen

Full Production June 30-July 15, 2010

Burning in Air

The Next Stage, San Francisco

Director, Paul Heller

Full Production September 1-15, 1995.

Now Not Yet

The Phoenix Theatre, San Francisco

Director, Paul Heller

Full Production September 1-15, 1991.

Dog Face

1991 The Phoenix Theatre, San Francisco

Director, Paul Heller

Full Production September 1-15, 1991.

STAGED READINGS

Spit In Your Face (Written in collaboration with Alberto Lomnitz)

Director, Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez

New Threads Greenhouse Festival (Frank Mihelich, Artistic Director)

February 23, 2024

Make A Wish

Director, Drew Ward

New Threads Theatre Company (Frank Mihelich, Artistic Director) and The Redlands Theatre Festival 

July 11, 2023 

Wolves – Workshops & Readings

Director, Rem Myers

Actor: Wiley Naman Strasser/Campbell Zeigler

January & May, 2014 Living Rooms in Berkeley & San Francisco CA

Scavengers

Director, Hugo Carbajal

Central Works Writer’s Group, Berkeley, CA

April 12, 2014

Hickory Miles

Director, Paul Heller

2011 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA, 2010

Blame

Local 4 Series

Director, Desdemona Chiang, Producer, Barbara Oliver, 2010

Blame

Virago Theatre Company – Vision & Voices: New Play Reading Series, Alameda,

CA

Director, Rachel Lepell, 2010

Wolves

Central Works Writer’s Group, Berkeley, CA

Director, Marissa Wolf, 2010

Right Aide

Z Space, San Francisco

Director, Paul Heller, 2008

20/20

San Francisco State University

Director, Amy Kilgard, 2005

The Abundance

The Magic Theatre – Z Magic Mondays Series

Director, Emily Koch, 2004

Cups of Tea

Besler Building, Emeryville, CA

Director, Paul Heller, 1999

AWARDS

2016 – Zellerbach Grant to produce Wolves

2014 Creative Capacity Fund Award

2014 Wolves – Finalist, Cutting Ball’s Risk is This, April 2014

2013 ATLAS Playwright, Theatre Bay Area, San Francisco

2008 Blame Featured Playwright, Theatre Bay Area Playwrights Showcase

2005 Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco

1990 Downs Award for Fiction, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1984 Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, Oxford, MS

EDUCATION

M.F.A. Creative Writing. University of Arizona, 1990.

B.A. Liberal Arts, University of Pacific, Stockton, CA 1975

RESIDENCIES

2011, 2015, 2022 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA

Playwright in Central Works Playwrights Group, Berkeley, CA 2006-2013.

On-going training and development for selected playwrights the company

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