Playwright
Irene was twice chosen to participate in the Pipeline New Works Initiative (sponsored by Cadence Theatre) and was mentored by the multi-decorated playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire. She has received grants, awards and commissions from The Virginia Commission for the Arts, Swift Creek Mill Playhouse, The Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, Martha Newell Award for Best First Play, and Theresa Pollack Award.
Other honors include Semifinalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Quarterfinalist, O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference, William Inge Theatre Festival, and “audience favorite” at the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights.
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Upcoming New Musical!
Haunted by a violent home invasion, Camille purchases a gun to protect herself and her declining mother. Her new found sense of power, ever-increasing fear, and a little too much attention from an amorous gun salesman leads Camile into an explosive showdown with life altering results.
The Little Lion
Full length drama
Adapted from the novel by Nancy Wright Beasley. In World War II, a young Lithuanian motorcycle enthusiast finds a way to use courage and mechanical talents to help his family escape from a Nazi ghetto.
Produced by Swift Creek Mill Playhouse, Colonial Heights, VA and Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA
Full Plate Collection
Full length comedy
Winner of the Martha Newell Playwrights Award.
A celebration of outdated fictional female icons who evolve to stay relevant in today's cultural environment. Barbie, Betty Boop, Betty Crocker, Rosie the Riveter and Aunt Jemima come to life in the form of a collection of plates hawked on a TV shopping network.
Produced by Theatre Gym, Richmond, VA and North Street Playhouse, Onancock, VA.
Full Plate Collection Program
Miss Palmer's School of Penmanship and Civil Behavior
Full length comedy
Miss Palmer instructs "civility offenders" on the rehabilitative benefits of cursive handwriting, and advocates vigorously for its resurrection.
Readings at The Lark, NY, Studio Theatre, NYC, and The Lab, Richmond, VA
Rules of the Lake
Solo Performance Drama
Winner of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for Drama
A bittersweet memoir about growing up on a lake in pre-Disney Florida.
Produced by Theatre Gym, Richmond, VA and The Cultural Arts Center, DeLand, FL
Rules of the Lake
Chimborazo Hill
Winner of Audience Favorite at the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights.
The year is 2008. Long-time liberal activist Carol Rankin is days away from being recognized with a prestigious Humanitarian of the Year Award when long-suppressed truths about a murder on Richmond’s Chimborazo Hill threaten everything she holds dear, including her career, reputation and family. Questions of complicity, hypocrisy and vigilante justice swirl as Carol’s once solid code of ethics is put to the test.
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