2. Award winning skills as a writer, editor, performer and communicator

3. Creative approaches to project management and problem solving

4. Experience managing marketing and sales staffs

6. Turned PerformInk into a half million dollar business with 24 staff members and contributors

7. Conceived of PerformInk as a professional, bi-weekly newspaper that gave voice to the questions, concerns and accomplishments of the community it served

8. Managed staff to hit editorial, advertising and marketing goals and deadlines

9. Published seven editions of “The Book: An Actor’s Guide to Chicago”

10. Published two editions of “The Kids Book: A Guide to Child Acting in Chicago”

11. Published PI Online

12. Conceived or led conception of sections, content, layout and design for all publications

14. Winner of two Lisagor Awards for Excellence in Journalism

15. A radio personality who hosted a gay and lesbian radio show and has appeared on numerous arts related shows in the past 20 years

16. A writer who can take complex topics and ideas and make them accessible and understandable

17. Recipient of a Joseph Jefferson Award, Chicago’s theatre awards, for “nurturing and support of the Chicago theatre community and for providing an invaluable resource to actors, artists, writers, stage hands and devotees of Chicago theatre.”

19. Does occasional voice-over work

20. Studied improv at Second City and ImprovOlympic

21. Currently teaches guitar to private students and performs as regularly as possible

22. Taught Junior Great Books in a volunteer capacity for the last two years

23. Launched and facilitated the Chicago chapter of Mothers Circle—a program of the Jewish Outreach Institute (JOI), for intermarried, non-Jewish women raising Jewish children

24. Member of Theatre Building Chicago’s Musical Theatre Writers Workshop