Acting Resume

Solo Shows:

It Looks Like a Banana But It’s Really a Dog

How HIV Made Me a Pain In the Ass

Sex, Cellulite and Large Farm Equipment: One Girl’s Guide to Living and Dying

The Dominatrix Next Door

Film: 

Narrated on film: Vaginal Microbisides: Beyond Condoms.

Showtime: Say You Love Me, 2002 Documentary about my work as a writer, poet and performer.

Theater

Flying money in the Wizard of OZ 

Performance Venues:

Theaters

Atmosphere, Chicago

John and Peter’s, PA

Karla’s Cafe, PA

Keswick Theater, PA

McDougal Street Theater, NY

Midtown International Theater Festival, NY

Montgomery Theater, PA

New Hope Art’s Festival, PA

Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe, NY

Pennsylvania Museum of Art

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Renburg Theater, CA

Society Hill Playhouse, PA

St. Petersburg Writers Festival, FL

Stage Left Theater, NY

The Jazz Gallery, NY

The New York International FRINGE Festival

The North Star Bar, PA

The Solebury Theatre, PA

The Duplex, NY

White Dog Café, PA

Where Eagles Dare Theater, NY

Comedy Clubs 

Broadway Comedy Club, NY

Caroline’s on Broadway, NY

Comedy Cellar, NY

Pocos Comedy Club, PA

Stand-Up New York, NY

The Comic Strip, NY

MEDIA 

AM Philadelphia

CBS Up To The Minute

CBS Radio

Channel 9 Update

Charles Perez Show

CNN Morning Show

Day and Date

Good Morning America

KMUD Radio Interview

KRCK Radio Interview

Late Date with Sari

Metro Live

Montel Williams Show

News Talk Television

NPR: All Things Considered,

NPR: Day to Day

NBC Night Time

Showtime

The Louse Collins Show

WPST AIDS Benefit 

Colleges Conferences Where I Have Performed:

Conferences 

AmeriCorps, RI

Archdiocese Of New Jersey

Broadway

Body Positive Conference, AR

Abbott Laboratories International, Canada

Action AIDS Benefit, PA

AIDS, Medicine and Miracles, CA, FL, CO

AIDS Manasota Conference

A Positive Life Dinner, TX

Bucks County Chamber of Commerce, PA.

Bucks County AIDS Network, PA

Bucks County Detention Center, PA

CARES, Make It Happen Benefit, MI

Children’s AIDS Network AIDS, NJ

Catawba Care Benefit, SC

Changing Landscapes Conference, SC

Community Healthcare Network, NY

CIFOPWA Gala benefit, IL

Day Of Service, RI

Day of Healing, DE

Department Of Health, NJ, PA, MI, WI, VT, OR, SC, ME, KY, NE, AR

HEROES Retreat, LA

HIV/ AIDS Conference, Santa Fe, NM

Hyacinth Foundation, NJ

Hetero Summit, CA

International Conference on

HIV/AIDS and Chinese Medicine, CA, NY

Holyoke Health Retreat, CT

Internal Revenue Service,

NJ International Water Keepers Gala, PA

Kalmia Benefit Gala, PA

Labs are Vital Campaign, Chicago

Martin Luther King Center, RI

M'Kor Shalom, NJ

National Skills Building Conference, DC, CA

New Hampshire Women’s Conference, NH

NJWAN Conference, NJ

New Jersey Collegiate Consortium For Health and Education, NJ

New Orleans Empowerment Conference, LA

Northwest Rural AIDS Alliance, PA

Omega Institute, N

Over 50 Forum, Boston, Miami

On Wings Of Hope Conference, NJ

Positive Living Women’s Conference, FL

Peer Leadership Conference, MI

Planned Parenthood, PA, NJ, FL, NY

POZ Expo, NY

Promethean Center, PA

Ray of Hope Conference, NY

Reaching For Peace, PA

SMART University, NY

St. Francis Medical Center, NJ

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, DC

St. Johns Presbyterian Church, NJ

Scientific Study of Sexuality Conference, PA

Social Work and HIV Conference, Chicago

TPAN Women’s Conference, Chicago

Trenton Family Guidance Center, NJ

Today Inc., PA.

Trinity Church, NJ

United States Conference on AIDS, CA, FL

United Ministers in Higher Education Conf. MI

Vermont Cares Conference, VT

Women on The Move Conference, NJ

Women: Images and Reality Conference, NJ

Women’s Annual Retreat, NC

Women and HIV; Day of Healing, OH

Women’s Healing Retreat, MI

Women and HIV World AIDS Day, PA

Women and Girls National Testing Day, AR

Women and HIV Conference, DC

Women and HIV Dinner, PA

Women and HIV Luncheon, MD

Women’s World Retreat, CA

Women Healing Luncheon, Phila Fight, PA

Winter Youth Assembly, NJ

World AIDS Day Dance, NJ

Young Women’s Christen Association, PA

Youth Leadership Summit, IL

Youth Services Inc., NJ

10th Itnl. Conference on HIV/AIDS, Japan

11th Intl Conference on HIV/AIDS, Canada

Colleges/Universities

Spring Hill College, AL

University of Alabama-Birmingham, AL

University of the Ozarks, AR

Arkansas State University, AR

University of Arkansas, AR

California State Poly University, CA

University of California-Irvine, CA

Southeast Connecticut State U, CT

University Of Delaware, DE

Wesley College, DE

Eckerd College, FL

Valdosta State College, GA

Savannah College of Art & Design, GA

Drake University, IA

Morningside University, IA

Buena Vista University, IA

University of Idaho, ID

Albertson College, ID

Illinois College, IL

Loyola University of Chicago, IL

University of St Francis, IL

Indiana State University, IN

Saint Mary’s College, IN

Rose-Hulman Inst. IN

Eastern Kentucky University, KY

Nichols State College, LA

American international College, MA

Clark University, MA

Bentley College, MA

Wheaton College, MA

Stonehill College, MA

Curry College, MA

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA

Wheelock College, MA

Salem State University, MA

Salisbury Sate University, MD

St Mary’s College, MD

Washington College, MD

Howard Community College, MD

Colby College, ME

Bowdoin College, ME

Bates College, ME

Husson College, ME

University of Maine, Fort Kent, ME

University of Maine, Farmington, ME

University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME

Michigan State University, MI

University of Michigan, MI

Northern Michigan University, MI

Ferris State College, MI

College Of St. Benedict, MN

Ridgewater College, MN

Southeast Community College, NE

Colby-Sawyer College, NH

College of East Carolina, NC

University of North Carolina, NC

New Mexico State University, NM

Rutgers University, NJ

Princeton University, NJ

Seton Hall University, NJ

Fordham University, NY

William Patterson College, NJ

Rider College, NJ

Hunter College, NY

New York University, NY

Fashion Inst. Of Technology, NY

Polytechnic University, NY

St Lawrence University, NY

Muskingum College, OH

Ohio State University, OH

Southern Oregon University, OR

Pacific College, OR

University of Portland, OR

Albright College PA

Cedar Crest College, PA

Lehigh University, PA

Lafayette University, PA

Penn State University, Hazelton, PA

Austin Peay University, TN

Southwest Texas State University, TX

Texas Tech University, TX

Cedar Valley College, TX

Westminster College, UT

Southern Utah University, UT

Longwood College, VA

Lyndon State College, VT

Edmunds Community College, WA

University Wisconsin, WI

Cardinal Stritch College, WI

University Of West Virginia, WV

Northwest College, WY

Education Background

B.A. in Music and Physical Education, Hunter College 1986-91

Ph.D. Hon. Humanities, Albright College 1996

Awards 

Dorthea Lange/Paul Taylor Award 1995

Poet Laureate, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1996

Beacon of Hope Award/Rutgers University 1993

Publications

Jesus Never Lived Here 1994

A Positive Life: Portraits of Women Living With HIV. 1997

The Chicago Tribune 1997

The Bones of Susan 1998

Bust 1999

Goddess: The New Feminine Guide to Wisdom. 1999

Live At Karlas! 2001

Hands Offering Bread 2003

In Which I Lost 1000 Pounds 2004

POZ Magazine (regular contributor for 14 years)

Regular Blog for www.thebody.com 2009



 

 

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