I am an author, teacher, director, and playwright. I wrote and directed the children’s musical "Funlandia" at the 13th Street Theater in NYC, which was a very popular matinee that ran for 2 years. John Wiley and Sons published my book "Learning to Reason." I have written and directed several award-winning educational videos with Jack Ramey, poet, author, performer, and former chair of the English Department at Indiana University SE, where he taught creative writing and literature. Our documentary "Ecstasy & Death: Keats and Shelley in Rome" was screened at the Utopia Film Festival and was an Award Winner at the Rome International Movie Awards. I directed and co-wrote Jack’s highly acclaimed one-man show on Dylan Thomas, which ran in New York at the 13th Street Theater, at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, and toured the country. Our documentary, William Blake: Inspiration and Vision, won an Aegis award for best educational video. I was an art director and Jack had the lead role in the film "The Age of Insects," which was screened and archived at MoMA as part of their exhibit "Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983."

I am presently reviewing a contract from the Manhattan Book Group to publish the children's picture book "Stevie & Vincent: A Passion for Color", which I co-authored. It is the first book in a series of magical journeys where Stevie learns about the fascinating world around her.

Synopsis: When Stevie, who has been painting since she was 5 years old, gets frustrated because she can’t get the colors right for an apple tree, her grandmom takes her to the Cleveland Art Museum to see a Van Gogh exhibition. Stevie is so engrossed by the texture in Van Gogh's Large Plane Trees that her grandmom takes her to New York to see more of his work.

At the Museum of Modern Art, Stevie sways to the rhythm in Van Gogh’s Olive Trees and is transfixed by the swirling yellow stars in Starry Night. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stevie loves Van Gogh’s waving wheat field and his women picking olives, which remind her of trying to paint her grandmom picking apples.

At the Guggenheim, Stevie slips down a hallway and becomes transfixed by a mysterious lady in Van Gogh’s painting of an underpass. She feels herself being drawn into the painting. On the other side of the underpass, she sees Vincent painting the women at the olive trees. Vincent shows Stevie how to develop her passion for color and gets Stevie to help him paint the swirling stars in Starry Night. Stevie learns that museums are a great place to travel through time.