When the Pittsburgh-based, non-profit The Veterans Breakfast Club (VBC) invited me to screen my documentary Lioness, in June of 2023, to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, I was thrilled.…
Last December, a dear friend gifted me a copy of Moshin Hamid’s exquisite Exit West, a dystopian tale of two refugees who escape the chaos of their unnamed homeland and journey through a series of…
When, in June 2018, Judge Dana Sabraw of California put a legal chokehold on the Trump administration’s unconscionable child-separation policy, one could sense a collective sigh of relief emanating from our nation’s soul. No matter…
No woman wants to be a “woman artist.” If you are a woman and an artist, you want to be judged on your work. Period. As Georgia O’Keefe said, “The men liked to put me…
Sulayman Al Bassam’s Petrol Station, which will have its world premier at the Kennedy Center this Friday (followed by performances Saturday and Sunday only), is an extraordinary new play that arrives at our nation’s capitol…
In the days immediately following November’s shock election, pundits across the media landscape, responding to a rising chorus of “Not My President,” admonished Americans to give Trump a chance. We need Trump to succeed, they…
Three Trembling Cities, a new ten-part web series on New York City immigrants, is now available on Amazon.com, Rikaroo.com, Brooklynondemand.com, Stareable.com and Vimeo. Click to read the previous story. One of the most rewarding aspects of producing Three Trembling Cities…
On the eve of the American Revolution’s final battle at Yorktown, as portrayed in the musical Hamilton, Lafayette and Hamilton cross paths and, in a brief exchange, these two freedom fighters share a private moment…
