A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
--Billy Wilder

Since I preferred to play one role at a time, I kind of gave up on directing. But, before I did, I had some wonderful experiences.

In high school, I was very lucky to be one of a group of student directors working with Frank Livoy, who gave us every opportunity to develop initiative and take responsibility. Much later, I was honored to assist Liz Diamond at the Womens' Project and Mary Beth Easley at Circle Rep Lab. When I "graduated" from assistant, I worked at New Dramatists, Abingdon Theatre Company, the Lincoln Center institute, Women's Projects & Productions, The Lab Theatre Company, La Mama's La Galleria, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, the Village Gate, Immigrants' Theatre Project and Alice's Fourth Floor among other venues.

And when I found myself running, in one day, from one side of town to the other--and back again--for 8 different rehearsals and, let's be honest, very little money, I said, "That's it! I quit!" Okay, I didn't really quit. It took me two years to quit Girl Scouts, for pete's sake. I got all those plays and readings up and running, and then I began quietly backing away from directing.

So far, I haven't regretted it. But, who knows? Maybe now that I've had a rest, I may someday get all those hats a director needs to wear out of the closet and try them on again.