Re-visioning the spider woman archetype in Kiss of the Spider Woman

Teaches at Concordia University in Nebraska where she has directed and produced theatre since 1986. She works with student playwrights in the development of new plays and has served as a dramaturge for productions of On the Verge, M. Butterfly, and The Tempest at the Nebraska Repertory Theatre Company. Her book The Staging and Transformation of Gender Archetypes in A Midsummer Night's Dream, M. Butterfly and Kiss of the Spiderwoman, with a preface by John Beebe, MD, was published by The Edwin Mellen Press in July 2003.