She started blogging in 2002 as Lucky Spinster. At the height of its popularity, her blog received 1,000-3,000 unique hits a day, and her first produced full-length play, LULU FABULOUS, was based largely on her blog. Other plays include PEACE (nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), LUCRECE (commissioned by Washington Shakespeare Company), SAFEWORD (an O'Neill semi-finalist), SOFONISBA (supported by a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation), DIRTY HEART (written while on a MacDowell Fellowship), and MAY 39th/40th (workshopped at Electric Pear Productions). She's had four readings at the Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival, and her short plays have been produced in NY, LA, DC, Boston, and elsewhere. For more information on her plays, including excerpts, click here.
As a teaching artist in Washington, DC, she brought theatre and playwriting to over 1,000 students through Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Legacy Project, Maryland Shakespeare Festival, and the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts.
Callie is a member of Screen Actors Guild, is on the Advisory Board of DC Fringe, is a former Board Member of The Actors' Center (DC), and has served as Regional Representative (DC) for the Dramatists Guild of America, and as Literary Manager for Red Bull Theater. She founded the playwriting group Lizard Claw, and also founded DC Dollies & The Rocket Bitch Revue, which raised $4,000 for the DC Rape Crisis Center with a performance of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES.
Her current blog is “Derora Noo is not my real name.”
Her film/tv/stage work is on SAG's iActor