Beths lyric/book-writing has earned her a NAMT grant, the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award (the ONeill), the Klinsky Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre (2nd Stage), a Jonathan Larson Foundation grant, and a Dramatists Guild fellowship. The Mistress Cycle (composer Jenny Giering) has had two acclaimed productions in Chicago and won The Directors Choice Award at NYMF; the show was also presented at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Theatre Works Palo Alto, and Barrington Stage. Beths work has been featured at NAMT (Princess Caraboo), fostered at Goodspeed (Hashi with songwriter Jeff Blumenkrantz), developed at The Village Theatre and Dartmouth College (Oneida) and produced by TheatreWorks USA (Island of the Blue Dolphins). Beth is founder/CEO of Hope Sings, a for-benefit music organization whose latest effort is the theme song for UN Women, the new United Nations agency. www.hopesings.net. Beth is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College and of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop.