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Originally from Los Angeles, I studied theater and art history at New York University and physical theater at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris, France…to wind up a writer.
I’m working on my first book Christmas in Naples is a Sport—a raucous good time, a Christmas you never thought possible. But that’s not all. Read a hybrid essay taken from the book in Bending Genres.
Check out the articles and interviews I’ve done here. My work has been published in The Irish Examiner, The Rogue Mag, Reality Sandwich, and Business Insider.
I’m a traveler who believes in the power of storytelling. Change your story, change your life. We hold so many.
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My father and I disappeared to my cousins when I was thirteen years old. Fifteen years later, I returned…early, because my story didn’t go with Christmas…to find that Christmas had already begun. And in Naples, Christmas is a sport, not a Hallmark holiday. We dine.
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A hybrid essay from this universe was published in Bending Genres.
A scene in Contemplit Mag. Link to 1.5 issue here. Direct link to scene here.
I spent four days in Scottsdale, Arizona with the legendary actress before she passed away on August 21, 2018. She pioneered the field of improvisational comedy as an original member of The Second City. She inspired the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, won a Tony Award for Best Actress in The Apple Tree, was nominated for an Academy Award for Who is Harry Kellerman andWhy is He Saying Those Awful Things About Me, and starred in Robert Altman’s Nashville.
She elevated life to a work of art and that’s what these four days were.
Thank you to the man who introduced me to her and most of the people I spoke to: Alison Becker, Janet Coleman, Austin Pendleton, Craig Lucas, Paul Sand, Joy Carlin, William Daniels, Bonnie Daniels, Arthur Kopit, Alex Beck, Ed Asner, Bill Goulding, Frank Farrell, Jerry Schatzberg, Bernie Collins, Estelle Parsons, Jeffrey Sweet, Clifford David, David Weisberg, and Sean Logan.
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The year that President Putin invaded Ukraine (the first time), Russians from the former Soviet Union magically appeared in a restaurant called love when my immigration problems forced me to sublet my apartment in Paris, France. In my kitchen the warmest shade of yellow in the glow of a yellow lampshade, I was initiated on a kind of warrior’s path when my lithe and lethal roommate Sonya found out I studied clowning.
“This is very important,” she said.
“Why?”
“You will bring the message to the people in their language.”
I find a family—underground—as my dream of living in Paris comes to an end. See a side of Paris both chic and off-beat in a heartwarming, enchanted, and unexpected alliance made with love.
