Barbara has a multidisciplinary background in business, law, and software working in law firms, Fortune 500 companies and startups as well as creative accomplishments in theatre, dance and publishing.

Barbara has performed, choreographed, and taught in New York City and the SF Bay Area for over 25 years in musical theater, dance, opera, film, and TV. Most recently she danced in Jacqulyn Buglisi's "Table of Silence Project 9/11" at Lincoln Center's Josie Robertson Plaza. In the SF Bay Area she has worked with Indra's Net Theater, SF Playhouse, Mountain Play, 42nd St. Moon, Woodminster Summer Musicals, American Musical Theater of San Jose, Palo Alto Players, Santa Rosa Players, North Bay Lyric Opera, and Wine Country Theater.  Productions include The Fantasticks, Cabaret, Evita, West Side Story, Man of La Mancha, Most Happy Fella, Follies, My One and Only, Brigadoon, South Pacific, On the Town, Jerry’s Girls, Carmen, and Anything Goes.  She most recently choreographed two world premieres - A Time for Hawking and A Delicate Particle Logic -- for Indra's Net Theater in Berkeley.

 

Barbara was selected by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society for their 2017-18 and 2016-17 Observership programs where she was recently selected as a finalist for Susan Stroman's Beast in the Jungle Observership.

 

She was nominated ‘Best Choreographer’ by the Bay Area Critics Circle for South Pacific, Cabaret and Anything Goes and received an award for ‘Best Female Dancer’ for "Follies" from the American Musical Theatre of San Jose.  She is a SAG/AFTRA member.

Prior to discovering musical theatre Barbara performed with numerous dance groups both in Connecticut and in the SF Bay Area and was a featured dancer in an experimental theatre piece entitled ‘Love Regatta’ produced and written by the late actress June Havoc.

She received her dance training in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco in ballet, tap, modern, and jazz with Joffrey Ballet, David Howard, Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Bella Lewitsky, Joe Tremaine, Luigi, Chuck Kelly, and Stanley Kahn, among others.

Barbara has created a series of Musical Theatre Dance Workshops for adults and teens, and for over 10 years has conducted her workshops around the SF Bay Area most recently at Alonso King's LINES Ballet Dance Center in San Francisco.

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Her business expertise includes developing software products for the legal and HR markets with experience in product development, customer training, product marketing and sales support.  Barbara currently works as a freelance programmer for LAWGIC LLC a software company that creates estate planning and family law software for lawyers.

She holds an MBA in Marketing from Golden Gate University and is the author of three editions of a paralegal career book "Paralegal An Insider's Guide" published by Peterson's Guides (Thomson) which has sold over 60,000 copies nationwide.