Freelance writing samples from the San Francisco Chronicle

Feature on Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda (December 2018)

Sunday Datebook cover package on Waitress (September 2018)

Feature on the movie Lincoln, interviews with Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day Lewis (November 2012)

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Features on comedians who come mining for laughs in the Bay Area.

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Feature on Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe, co-stars in Robert Wilson's The Old Woman (November 2014)

Feature on author Stephen King and his theatrical venture Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (October 2014)

Trio of features (and Sunday Datebook cover story) celebrating the 40th anniversary of Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon (May 2014)

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Q&A with Tony Award-winner Mandy Patinkin about his concert with Patti LuPone (April 2014)

Feature on the legendary theater director and innovator Peter Brook (April 2014)

Feature on the art exhibit Magic, Color, Flair: The World of Mary Blair at the Walt Disney Family Museum (March 2014)

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Review of Liza Minnelli's concert Simply Liza at Davies Symphony Hall (March 2014)

Features on the movie Saving Mr. Banks (November and December 2013)

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Feature on the movie Frozen, interview with Kristen Bell (November 2013)

Feature on San Francisco Opera's world premiere of Mary Magdalene (June 2013)

A-1 front page centerpiece feature on the 100th anniversary of the Mountain Play in Marin County (May 2013)

Feature on the Disney-Pixar movie Monsters University (May 2013)

Interview with Broadway diva Patti LuPone and a review of her cabaret show Far Away Places (March 2013)

Feature on the Disney/Pixar movie Brave. (May 2012)