Welcome! Good to have you here.

ANNOUNCEMENT!

I'm very excited and proud to be published in the September 5, 2007 issue of The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known titled Art and the Purpose of Our Lives. Read the whole issue, which includes my article, "Something's Missing -- Why?": click here!

I was born in New Orleans but grew up in Brea, California. A graduate of CUNY with a degree in Education and Theatre, I began singing and acting professionally in 1973; appeared on the Julie Andrews Show; as a backup singer for Robert Goulet in Las Vegas; in a cabaret act; and toured South America with the recording group "Love and Kisses." I've performed in television specials, national TV commercials, voiceovers, regional theatre, and played “Melanie Sawyer” on the soap opera All My Children, where I had the pleasure of working with Gwen Verdon.

Since 1989 I've worked with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company, playing roles in dramatic presentations of lectures by Eli Siegel, such as Ophelia in "Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Revisited"; Lady Cunegonde in “Evil Seen Beautifully; or, Voltaire’s Candide” and Viola in "Absurdity in a Dukedom; or, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night."

I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild, the Society for Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, the International Women's Writing Guild, and the Professional Legal Trainers Group.

A director of Saturday Night Dramatic Presentations at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, I'm studying to teach Aesthetic Realism in classes taught by Class Chairman Ellen Reiss; I'm an avid reader and a software trainer, and live on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with my husband, singer and rock critic Kevin Fennell and our daughter, Sara.

As an actress, singer, writer, software trainer, wife, mother, daughter--I'm happy to share through this website some of what I'm grateful to be studying!

Here you'll find information about what I've learned from Aesthetic Realism, the philosophical education founded in 1941 by the American poet and educator Eli Siegel.

Have you ever felt any of these things?

• "Sometimes I'm happy, then the thrill fades and I feel empty again."
  What Stops a Woman From Being Truly Happy?

• "I'm a failure at love."
  The Five Biggest Mistakes Women Make About Love

• "I feel gypped and miserable a lot of the time, and, though I know I shouldn't, tend to blame others for it."
  Why Are Women Discontent?

• "I want everyone to like me; meanwhile, I'm a big faker a lot of the time. I can look really good but I don't feel very good."
  How Can Surface and Depth Make Sense in a Woman's Life?

• "I don’t believe what I’ve achieved is really worth anything."
  What's Real Success?

And -- Microsoft Windows and Word tips

Find out more about Aesthetic Realism.

Read my blog, "A Novel Approach" about what I'm learning from Aesthetic Realism particularly in relation to books I'm reading, and have read.

Go to the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company's website.

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