Theatre Without Borders (with NoPassport & The Arctic Cycle) instigated the CLIMATE CHANGE THEATRE ACTION, a collaborating event in over 100 countries supporting the intersection between theatre and the environment. Other TWB collaborations include: Between Home & Exile: New Palestinian Drama (Golden Thread ReOrient Forum, 2015); The Acting Together on the World Stage Project (Peacebuilding & the Arts Program, Brandeis University); Cultural Mobility Conference & Launch of the Cultural Mobility Funding Guide for the U.S.A. (Segal Center CUNY & On The Move, 2015); Eti! East Africa Speaks! (Segal Center 2008); After the Fall: Reality and the New Romanian Theatre (Segal Center 2006).

Employment highlights include: from 2004-2019, serving as the Senior Program Associate/International for the Sundance Institute Theatre Program responsible for co-design and co-implementation of Sundance Institute East Africa (a 12-year initiative of exchange and exposure between U.S. and East African theatre artists) and advising the Sundance Institute Middle East North Africa initiative. Fulbright Ambassador, 2010-2012 and Fulbright Specialist grantee 2018 Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; 2007 Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda; 2005 the National University of Theatre & Cinematography, Bucharest, Romania; 2003 Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

Other international exchange work includes co-initiator of and participant in the “Acting Together Project with the Peacebuilding and the Arts Program at Brandeis University, beginning in October 2007; Project co-designer and co-director of Eti! East Africa Speaks!, Dartmouth College, 651 ARTS, and the Martin E Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY, July 2008; Workshop Leader; East African Theatre Initiative – Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, TCG/ÍTI Doris Duke Charitable Foundation New Generations Grant; Co-Creator and Dramaturg for BENEDICTUS: An Iran-Israel-US Collaboration, Golden Thread Productions October 2007; Interdisciplinary Genocide Studies Center – Cal Arts, Rwanda, August 2007; Project Director “After the Fall: Reality and The New Romanian Theatre”, Immigrants’ Theatre Project, July 2006; Co-organizer “Arts in the One World-Considering Genocide”, Cal Arts, January 2006;  Workshop Leader “Training Trainers”, Bistritza, Romania, Sept 2005; Participant “African Playwrights Conference”, University of Iowa, Sept 2004; Workshop Leader “How to Write Something

New”, Bistritza/Colibitza, Romania, Aug 2004. Leader “Three Continents Workshop” Center for International Theatre Development/Towson University/Warsaw Theatre Academy Workshop in USA & Poland, May/June 2002. Leader “East African Theatre Workshop” (Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda) Center for International Theatre Development/Ford Foundation East African Office, Nairobi, Kenya and at the Bagamoyo Arts Festival, Tanzania, Sept 2001. 

Awards and honors include being named the American Honoree at the 15th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theatre in 2003 and receiving the Alan Schneider Award in 1992 for directorial excellence. Accomplishments and writings are featured in The New York Times, AMERICAN THEATRE Magazine, “Theatre in Crisis?: Performance Manifestos for a New Century”, The South Atlantic Quarterly, and “Writing the World: On Globalization”; "International Women Stage Directors"; "American Women Stage Directors of the Twentieth Century"; "roMANIA after 2000"; "Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict/Volume 1: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence."  

Film work includes: Recipient of DGA/SSDC George Schaefer Observership, assigned to “NYPD Blue” and “Chicago Hope”; Assistant to Director Joan Micklin-Silver on IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES for SHOWTIME; Associate Producer and Story Writer for RAVEN, an independent feature shot in Juneau, Alaska; Director, radio adaptation of UNQUESTIONED INTEGRITY: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Hearings for KCRW and L.A. Theaterworks; Graduate of the 7th Cycle AFI Directing Workshop for Women; Director of teleplays “How Else Am I Supposed to Know I’m Still Alive” and “Lifetimes” (Winner of 1st Prize in the Pacific Northwest Film Festival).

A graduate of Stanford University, she taught as an Associate & Assistant Professor on the faculty at UCLA and as an Artist/Teacher at Bennington College. She served on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group/TCG in NYC and the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers in NYC. She is presently a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women and the Think Tank for the Lab for Global Performance & Politics at Georgetown University.