I'm very excited and proud to be published in the July 23, 2008
and September 5, 2007 issues of The Right of Aesthetic
Realism to Be Known! You can read my articles:
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, fellow software trainer, 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
educationfounded in 1941
by the American poet and educator Eli Siegel.
