EDUCATION

Graduate Work

• Rutgers University, School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies, MLS, 1997
• University of California, San Diego, MFA Playwrighting, 1995

Undergraduate

• Duke University, BA Psychology, 1990

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Library and Information Science

• Performing and Fine Arts Reference Liaison Librarian, Reference Department, Fenwick Library, George Mason University, 2000--
• Library Instruction Coordinator, JD Williams Library, Reference Department, University of Mississippi, 1997-2000
• Temporary Full-Time Librarian, Mabel S. Douglass Library, Rutgers University, December 1996-February 1997
• Paid Library Intern, Lincoln Center Institute, Summer 1996

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, Theatre Department, 1993-1995

PUBLICATIONS

• Personal Pages as Professional Duties. RSR, v.28 no.1, 2000.
• Review of Oxygen Man by Steve Yarborough. Mississippi Libraries v.64 n.1 Spring 2000
• Review of Ghosts of Medger Evers by Willie Morris. Mississippi Libraries v.62 n.2 Summer 1998.
• A Hundred Girls in Her Hair Big Sun Publications, 1995
• Downward Spiral Big Sun Publication, 1992

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Exploring the Digital Diaspora: Resources presented at the Black Theatre Network Conference in St. Louis, July 1, 2000.
• What is the Matrix? Creating a Virtual Presence for the Library Instruction Program. Presented at Powerful Learning, Powerful Partnerships:
  Educating the University Community in a Dynamic Information Environment. University of Iowa, November 11-12, 1999. To be published January 2001.

WEBSITES CREATED

• The Muse - a print and online newsletter created to keep the Fine and Performing Arts faculty, staff, and students abreast of library acquisitions and services - mason.gmu.edu/~aweaver1/newsletter.html
• J.D. Williams Library Instruction Homepage -
  www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/lip/home.html
• The Program: - a print and online newsletter created to keep Theatre faculty and students abreast of library acquisitions and services - www.olemiss.edu/~cybers/theatre/program.html
• Women of Color, Women of Words: African American Female Playwrights -
  www.scils.rutgers.edu/~cybers/home.html

PLAYS PRODUCED

MFA Productions

• A Hundred Girls in Her Hair Thesis Production, University of California, San Diego, 1995
• Angry Chair Dreaming Staged Reading, University of California, San Diego, 1993
• Downward Spiral Staged Reading, University of California, San Diego, 1992

Other Productions

• Mask of the Oyama Produced as part of the Duke University Theatre Department's World Premiere Playwrights Festival, 1992
• One, Two, I Manipulate You Produced as part of the Duke University Theatre Department's World Premiere Playwrights Festival, 1990

SELECTED LIST OF PLAYS WRITTEN

Anna Begins

@1997

Anna watches her daughter's airplane fall from the sky over the course of three days. Cast: 3 women, 1 man, stagecrew as extras

Long Staring Eyes

@1997

Deirdre plummets through time and alternate states of being in her search to find herself and her true parents. Cast: 3 women, 2 men, 1 character of indeterminate sex

Singing Stones

@1996

An artist transforms a statue into a living, breathing woman, and frees himself from the shadow of his dead uncle. Cast: 3 women, 3 men

A Hundred Girls in Her Hair

@1995

A woman who has been impregnated by the spirit of her deceased husband is visited by her three dead great aunts on the eve of her child's birth. Cast: 6 women, 2 men