Ms. Epstein’s other written works include the full length screenplay Shepherdstown and the short film scripts Poet at Work, If Not For You and How Did This Happen.
One act plays include the solo piece Spoon Imaginary (which she performed in for Armory Players in New York), Me, Ma, Leon — a radio play (directed and performed in for Home For Contemporary Theater and Art), Terror (directed and performed in for Solo Arts Group) and Puncture Pleas (directed for Home For Contemporary Theatre and Art and Armory Players). The short screenplay of Puncture Pleas was performed for the Columbia Graduate Film Program’s Staged Reading Series, sponsored by Nickelodeon.
Gee I’d Like To See You Looking Swell, a full length play written by Ms. Epstein, was produced at the Circle Repertory Lab and directed by Steven Rattazzi.
As an actor, she has appeared in plays at the Dance Theater Workshop (David Greenspan’s Dog In a Dancing School), the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (Maurya Wickstrom’s To Desire Peacefully Is To Fall Ill With Longing), Home for Contemporary Theater and Art (Paul Bernstein’s Other Distants), BACA Downtown, the New Theatre of Brooklyn (George Walker’s The Art of War), Circle Repertory Company (of which she was a company member – appearing in Paul Osborne’s Tomorrow’s Monday and Love’s Labour’s Lost) and Clifford Odet’s Paradise Lost at Center Stage in Baltimore, to name a few.
She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Hunter College and an M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University.