STAGED READING of LITTLE HEART
 

I'm happy to report that the first staged reading of Little Heart takes place on Friday March 13, at 7:30 pm in the magnificent Warner Grand Theatre in San Pedro, CA ( forty minutes south of LA.) Renowned actress and director Judith Ivey directs, and many gifted actors are scheduled to appear, including award-winning Broadway actress Christine Estabrook as Corita. Also scheduled are Michael Gross, Dawn Didawick , Beth Broderick and other marvelous performers. Sponsored by the Grand Vision Foundation, the evening is a fundraiser for San Pedro's fINdings art Gallery, which celebrates Corita's innovative teaching techniques as well as her artwork. For information about tickets to the show or the gala reception featuring both Judith Ivey and me, please call Annette Cicketic at 310-489-1362 or The Grand Annex at 310-833-4833. Click here to see the flyer. For directions to the Warner Grand, click here.

RECENT HONORS

On June 7, I will be receiving the Alice Curtis Desmond Award for children's writing. (Other winners include Jules Pfeiffer, Daniel Pinkwater and New York Times writer Andrew Revkin). Also, I have been named to three editions of Who's Who -- Who's Who in American Women, Who's Who in the United States and Who's Who in the World.

LISTEN NOW!
You can now listen to me performing selections of my work. Click on Listen Now in the Highlights column at left. I read from Women On Fire, Fat Girl, and several poems. I take great joy in the sound and musicality of words, and am excited that now you will be able to experience it as it is meant to be heard.

WOMEN ON FIRE
I just got word that my play Women On Fire has gone into another printing. You can order it at Samuel French.

I’M IN LOVE
With words, and always have been. I love their looks, their sounds, their meanings and their impact. In large part, my life as creator is an exploration of ways to share this pleasure through my own voice and body in poetry, prose, calligraphy, theatrical pieces and writing for children.

Words are precious. They convey much of our human experience, and, more poignantly, our attempts to share it with one another. This ongoing effort to express, to describe, to envision, to explain, to reason, to instruct, to entertain, to create entire worlds is something that moves me deeply. For that reason I am interested in anything which helps clarify or amplify meaning.

At this website you can explore some of the places my journey has taken me.

As Zatz, one of my characters says, “A day without words is like……”