She has played in It's a Bird..It's a Plane...It's Superman (Lois Lane), My Fair Lady (Mrs. Pierce) and Hot l Baltimore (Mrs. Oxenham). She’s a founding member of the Brookline Community Theater. She is a retired teacher.

 She is a sculptor, graphic designer & an entrepreneur. She created ArtMatters, an art awareness program designed to bring the museum to seniors and students. She is eternally grateful to her “fore-mothers” and is well aware that they “did it for her”.

She has been singing publicly for many years. Most recently, she sang with the Windsor Community Chorale and St. Alban’s Episcopal Church Choir.

She has played in An American Daughter (Judith Kaufman), Sisters Rosensweig (Pfeni) and Lend Me a Tenor (Sophia) with Spotlight Players. She’s a costume designer for a children's troupe and has a BA in Theater (UMass).

She volunteers at Wiogora, a wizardry camp, as a phoenix and Professor Colmar Éclair, a 473-year-old witch. She has a BA English/World Literature (UCLA) and MA Journalism (Danube University, Austria). She is a multimedia/assemblage artist. 

She loves jazz music, theater, and movies.  She is a licensed clinical social worker, and she is delighted to be in this production.

She is a spiritual director, teacher, author and motivational speaker. Riga  co-facilitates our WDIFY Empowerment Workshops. The author of Tools for the Exceptional Parent of a Chronically-Ill Child, Riga talks to groups of parents and caregivers about the process of finding empowerment through adversity.

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She has played in To Kill a Mockingbird (the narrator), On the Verge (Mary), The Music Man (Mayor’s wife), Stonewall Jackson’s House (Gaby), and A Christmas Carol. She has played women from early American history. De performs original ghost stories at The Witch House in Salem.

She has performed in several middle school musical/plays (Cinderella and Villan School). She is currently taking voice lessons at Rick’s Music World in Raynham MA.

She is a board certified Pediatric Cardiologist with Mass General Hospital for Children.

She sings with the Chalice Choir of First Unitarian Universalist Society of Middleboro and the Mayflower Camerata.

She is a visual artist, writer, activist, and poet. She has done background acting in movies, as well as voice-over work. Her poetry performances can be found online through Dedham TV.

She enjoys singing and when she discovered this production she just had to audition. She would like to thank the theatre family for welcoming her.

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She has appeared as Caiaphas in Jesus Christ Superstar, the Peterborough Players (in plays such as Once in a Lifetime and Harvey) and the Stratford Stage in Ontario, Canada (in plays such as Twelfth Night, Comedy of Errors and Romeo and Juliet).

She has been featured in the Boston Blues Society’s Ladies of the Blues Events. She has performed at the Homegrown Coffeehouse, the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival, Serendipity, Beatniks, and was seen in Smokey Joe’s Cafe. 

She has performed in Baltimore in H.M.S. Pinafore with Young Victorian Theatre Company and Bye Bye Birdie with Liberty Showcase. In MA, she performs with the Spotlight Players and studies voice at the Franklin School for the Performing Arts.  

She has performed in Play It Again, Sam (Linda), An American Daughter (Lyssa), Sisters Rosensweig (Sarah), Little Women (Aunt March), Alice and Wonderland (Queen of Hearts). She’s a historical guide on Boston’s Freedom Trail, and a retired superindendent

.She has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing.

She is a founding member of UMOJA which performs at International Women's Day, AIDS Awareness Day, MLK birthday and Black History Month programs. She has acted in various shows, and was a private school teacher and principal.

She played in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania),  Henry V (Catherine), and Aria da Capo (Columbine) in college. She has performed with the Trinity Square Repertory Company and The Barrington Players.