About CloseToHome Productions

Past projects include a three part online panel about Feminist Theatre: Past and Present and in the past seven years has produced film/readings that focus on the issues women face in our society today; The Women’s Wisdom Project, Other Powers: Trauma Survivors Reclaim Joy, Women Artists Have Their Say, and in 2023,  Stand Up Women: Older Women Social Activists In Tompkins County.

Also in 2023 she was one of the organizers, along with End Abortion Stigma, of the first Ithaca Reproductive Justice Film Festival.

She produces web videos for small businesses, artists and non-profits. She has been creating and producing virtual house tours for Carol Bushberg Real Estate for 10 years. Her web videos are featured on this web site and on Vimeo.

A graduate of NYU with a MA in Educational Theatre, she has worked, for more than 40 years, as a director, performer, playwright, storyteller, puppet maker, teacher, arts administrator and producer of theatre in colleges, public schools, community centers and alternative performing spaces in New York City and Ithaca NY. She is one of the founding members of It’s All Right To Be Woman Theatre,  and retired, after 23 years, as the director of  Senior Citizen Theatre Troupe of Lifelong in Ithaca, NY. In the 1970’s and 80’s she owned and managed two retail businesses: Djuna Books, a feminist bookstore in New York City and Lucia a women’s clothing store in Ithaca, NY.

She is a recipient of many local and national grants for her writing, directing and film work. Most recently she received an award as Friend of the Arts in Tompkins County. As a volunteer, in Ithaca, NY, she served on the Tompkins County Strategic Tourism Planning Board (chair 2015) and  the Board of Cinemapolis  ( chair, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023) Ithaca’s only independent member supported cinema.  She also volunteers for other arts and human services organizations in Ithaca NY. She is a member of Eliminating Abortion Stigma (EAS). The group lobbies, writes letters to the editor, made a video We Are the Women You Know and has participated in many rallies, including the most recent Stop The Ban Rally in Ithaca NY. Two articles from that rally: Ithaca Voice and the Ithaca Journal. In the past she served as president of the boards of the Kitchen Theatre and the Greater Ithaca Activities Center; and helped to form her neighborhood association, South of the Creek Neighbors. In 2017 she was one of the organizers of the Women’s March in Ithaca, NY.