2007-2008:   In July, I started as the Director of Theatre at Niagara University.  [www.niagara.edu/theatre] The job includes the responsibilties of a producing artistic director and managing director, overseeing everything that has to do with production.  I am also the Editor in Chief of the bi-annual Friends of Niagara University Theater Newsletter.  In the fall semester, I taught Acting I as well as independent studies in playwriting.  In January and June, I was on the faculty for the country's largest low residency graduate program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University (Wilkes-Barre, PA).  In February, my short play Stairway to Heaven was produced in Tacoma, WA by the Northwest Playwright's Association at the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts.  For the spring semester at Niagara University, I taught Acting II, Playwriting, and I directed Calderon's Life's a Dream. 

2006-2007: In September, my play Cow-Tipping and Other Signs of Stress was produced at Sirius Idaho Theatre at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre in Moscow, Idaho. For the fall semester, I taught at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA.  I taught Approach to Theatre, Approach to Acting, and Theatre History Part I; plus, I directed Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.  In October, I was invited by literary agent Marta Praeger to be represented by the Robert A. Freedman Dramatic Agency.  In January, for region two's festival of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, I directed a staged reading of NYU's Betsy Ross Lies! by Ed Valentine and responded to student stage managers.  Also in January, I joined the faculty of the MA Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA and team taught Oral Interpretation I & II and Playwrights Readers Theatre.  In February, I responded to four productions at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region Six, in Tulsa, OK.  Also in February, the Northeast Theatre in Scranton, PA included my play Riddle of the Sphinx in their Plays for a New Century Reading Series, directed by Tania Myren.  In April, I directed a staged reading of Emily Schwend's Call Back at NYU's Dramatic Writing Program, and in May, I walked in the AIDS Walk New York and, through the generosity of friends, I raised $2506.00.

2005-2006: In July, I attended the Sundance Theatre Lab in Utah as a playwriting grantee.  My one-act play Underdeveloped Photographer was presented as a staged reading with the amazing cast of Emily Bergl, Ian Brennan, Wayne Knight & Nicholas Mennell.  In August, my play Bliss was given a staged reading at the New Play House in Frederick, Maryland.  In September, I attended the first annual New York IT Awards (celebrating Off-Off-Broadway) where my play Roast Beef and the Rare Kiss was nominated for Outstanding Original Short Script.  At the 3rd Annual Lavender Footlights Festival in Miami, my short play Robert Mapplethorpe's Flowers was included.  For the school year, I taught full time at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (playwriting, acting, into to theatre, and stage management).  In addition to the classes, I directed my plays Tom and Huck--the Love Story in the fall and Riddle of the Sphinx in the spring.  In February, my play Edenville was presented by Off-Off-Broadway's Emerging Artists Theatre Company.  In March, the same company presented my play My Sister the Cow in their festival of new one-act plays.  My play Stairway to Heaven was published by Dramatic Publishing in their anthology 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten Minute Plays.  The same play was also published by Back Stage Books in the anthology Kennedy Center Presents:  Award-winning Plays from the American College Theater Festival.  My play Roast Beef and the Rare Kiss was translated into Dutch, Frisian and Flemish and published by Anco Entertainment.  Lastly, I was awarded the 2006 Regional Respondent Award from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, region two.