Family: My husband Don; and our two sons, Keith and his wife Danielle and their children Gabriella and Nicholas; and Ben and Michelle, who have one child and another expected in February.

How did you meet your husband? We were performing together. We did a Luigi Pirandello play, To Clothe the Naked, and the attraction was instant. Rehearsals became really tough, and the director told us to go out on a date just so we’d get over that. (Laughs.)

How long have you lived in Newtown? Thirty years, since 1996.

Work: I work at my desk in my office at home. I’ve been everything, from a caterer to a professor. My last job was a teacher of playwriting at Western Connecticut State University. I’ve also been an actor. I was on Broadway, with Fiddler on the Roof. I got to work with Jerome Robbins, Zero Mostel, and Herschel Bernardi. I did Wonderful Town with Lauren Bacall. My most recent gigs were the Off-Broadway production of Daddy Issues, and I have some videos through my website of things I’ve written and/or directed in recent years.

I write now. That’s my life right now. My play A Fox in The Hen House is going to be produced at TheatreWorks New Milford in February, and then it’s scheduled to play in Ivoryton in April with an Equity cast.

What do you enjoy doing in your free time? I write, more than I’ve ever written in my life. I also love sports. I will watch virtually every sport. Organized sports are like theater, they’re like plays. The structure is the same every time but the outcome is always different.

Are you an active member of any groups, organizations, and/or communities of faith? SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatist’s Guild of America, The Playwright/Directors Unit (PDU) at The Actor’s Studio in New York, The Connecticut Theater Women Network, and Theatre Artists Workshop.

Favorite author? I was weaned on Leon Uris, although I enjoy a variety of different kinds of books. I also went through all of R.L. Delderfield’s books. He wrote these massive romance novels. There’d be a trilogy of them and they’d follow a family saga, of multiple generations. I like generational things, and I like historical fiction.

What was the most recent book you have read? I binged on Colleen Hoover over the summer. Right now I’m reading The Wonder and Shame by Greg Orfalea.

Favorite TV show? I can binge Law & Order over and over again, and the smart comedies — Everybody Loves Raymond, Friends — although I’ve seen that one enough, I need to take a break — and Two and a Half Men, at least the first few seasons. I love intelligent comedies. I don’t mind watching them over and over again.

Favorite movie genre? I like movies, period. My comfort zone is period pieces though. I’m looking forward to the new Sense and Sensibility.

What was the most recent movie you saw in the theater? Other Mommy.

What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given? As pertains to my writing: listen, do not talk back, record a critique and then listen to it three days later, and take notes on who said what. In short, take what’s useful for you and disregard the rest.

Do you have a favorite travel destination? I would love to go back to Europe, virtually anywhere.

Do you have any pet peeves? Ignorance. Not stupidity, but ignorance. I have much more tolerance for people who are just stupid than for people who just refuse to learn.

Favorite thing to eat? Pasta.

What is your favorite thing about Newtown? It’s quiet. I’m a native of New York, born in Brooklyn, and it’s astonishing to me how much I love my backyard.