I am an interdisciplinary poet-performer-theatre artist-filmmaker. I have worked for over 35 years combining artistic collaboration with cultural diversity to bring new and thought-provoking works of literature and performance to metropolitan Washington, DC. In 1984, with Elizabeth Bruce and Jill Navarre, I co-founded The Sanctuary Theatre. Then in 2010, after earning my PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies, I founded The Performing Knowledge Project, which synthesizes my experiences in performance, education, poetry, and theatre. Most recently I performed "Song of Myself": The WHITMAN Project at the 2014 Capital Fringe Festival, the 2nd venture into poetry-in-performance. At the 2011 Capital Fringe Festival I performed Embodying Poe, which had 7 of Poe's most mystical creation.