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• The Maverick Players in Midland, TX staged Gladys in Wonderland from November 7 through November 23, 2008. This was a repeat engagement for Gladys and the Players. It was produced there in 2002 and now, as then, the company presented the comedy before sold-out audiences.
  
  
• This autumn In the Tank received a string of productions, in schools all across the nation, from the Chesapeake Bay to the Rockies.
  
  
• On November 14, 2008, In the Tank received two performances, one at Nederland Middle/Senior High School, 597 County Rd 130, Nederland,CO. and on November 13, 2008 and November 14, 2008 at Saint Bede Academy, 24 W US Highway 6 Peru, IL,
  
  
• And from November 16, 2008 to November 18, 2008 the play was produced in Severna Park, Maryland at the Severn School. This was an encore performance for In the Tank at the Severn School. It was first performed there in 2005. The school is located at 201 Water Street, Severna Park, Maryland
  
  
• In the Tank was produced from October 30, 2008 to November 2, 2008 at Beech Grove HS, 5330 Hornet Avenue, Beech Grove, IN. That same weekend Fredericksburg Christian Schools in Fredericksburg, VA staged a production of this one-act comedy.
  
  
• A new ten-minute drama, After the Fact, received a staged reading as part of the Baltimore Book Festival on September 26 in Mount Vernon Square in downtown Baltimore.
  
  
• Socks was staged in New York’s Theater District as part of the Turtle Tales Teen Play Festival. The Festival was produced by Turtle Shell Productions and the play ran through August 31st at The Turtle's Shell Theater in the Times Square Arts Center.
  
  

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• A new drama, The A Word was produced by the Mobtown Players as part of The Baltimore Playwrights Festival, The play ran from August 1 through August 16.
  
  An excerpt of the play was read at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. on September 1 as part of the Center's annual Page to the Stage Festival.
  
  
• The Body Washer was staged from June 26 through July 26 as part of The Compass Theatre's Resilience of the Spirit Festival in San Diego, CA
  
  
• In the Tank was presented in Kodiak, Alaska on July 19 at the Loose Edge Reader's Theatre
  
  
• The one-act comedy, Berry Season, was produced off-off Broadway on July 7 as part of the Algonquin Theater One-Act Play Festival.
  
  
• Cornered was named best one-act play in the Reverie Productions' 5th Annual Next Generation Playwriting Contest. Public readings of the plays were held on May 12 at the ART/New York Spaces, 520 8th Avenue, Manhattan.
  
  
• In the Tank was staged on June 4, 2008 at Ontario High School, Ontario Calif; on April 3, 2008 at the Trojan Theatre, 490 Cartier Street, North Bay, ON, Canada; and on March 15, 2008 at Martinsburg High School, 701 S. Queen St., Martinsburg, WV.
  
  
• Golden Thread Productions presented a staged reading of The Body Washer at 8:00 p.m. on March 14 in the La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley CA. Golden Thread Productions is dedicated to theatre that explores Middle Eastern cultures and identities as represented throughout the globe. This reading was part of that program, which was titled What do the Women Say?
  
  
• The Body Washer was also produced as part of the 13th annual Kansas City Women’s Playwriting Festival staged by Potluck Productions. The award-winning one-act drama was presented from March 7 to March 10 and again from March 13 to March 16, 2008 at the Just Off Broadway Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri.
  
  

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• The one-act comedy In the Tank was produced on February 1, 2008 and February 2, 2008 at Hiawatha High School, Kirkland, IL. and again on February 22, 2008 at St. Joan of Arc High School, 460 Mapleton Ave., Barrie Ontario, Canada.
  
  
• In the Tank was also produced on January 26 and January 27 at Browerville High School in Browerville, MN.
  
  
• On Saturday, November 17, 2007, Impending Events, a new full-length drama, was presented in a staged reading at the Fells Point Corner Theater as part of the Baltimore Playwrights Festival. The powerful play follows three young women as they face the issue of abortion. The title of this play has been changed to The A Word.
  
  
• An Arrangement of Convenience, a one-act drama, received a repeat production as part of the encore performance of the One-Act Play Festival at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Laurel, MD, on Friday & Saturday, November 9 and November 10.
  
  
• In the Tank was produced on December 7 and December 8, 2007 at Hudson's Bay High School, Vancouver, WA. It was also staged on November 16, 2007 at Hopewell High School, Hopewell, VA
  
  
• A Morning in May premiered in New York at the Short Attention Span Horror Fest, at the Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal St., Greenwich Village, running from October 18 through October 21, 2007.

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• A special reading of The Body Washer was presented at the First Unitarian Church in downtown Baltimore on Sunday, October 21, as part of a service on "The Wages of War."
  
  
• The Body Washer was staged in October off-off Broadway at Manhattan Theatre Source at Washington Square Park in New York City's Greenwich Village. It was part of "Estrogenius," the theatre's annual celebration of female voices. The play ran from Wednesday, October 3 through Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6.
  
  
• The 15 minute comedy Berry Season, was produced in New York at the historic Players Theatre at 115 MacDougal St., in Greenwich Village. It was part of the "Bad Plays" Festival of comedy and satire staged by the International Cringe, a production of NY Artists Unlimited. The production dates were September 12; September 22; and September 26 2007.
  
  
• The Body Washer was presented September 2 at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC as part of the Page-to-Stage Festival sponsored by Bowie State University. The Festival featured dramatic readings of seven plays. Body Washer was one of four plays from the group to receive additional readings on September 13 and September 14 in the Thurgood Marshall Library on the Bowie State campus.

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• An Arrangement of Convenience, a one-act drama, was staged as part of the One-Act Play Festival at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Friday & Saturday, September 14 & 15 and Sunday, September 16. The theater is located at 508 Main Street in Laurel.
  
  
• The Attic Theatre Company in Los Angeles staged The Body Washer as part of its 15th annual One-Act Marathon on weekends in August 2007.
  
  
• School Shooter was presented as a staged reading in London as part of the Playreading Festival 2007 of the North American Actors Association. The Festival was held at the Soho Theatre in the West End theatre district and School Shooter was presented on June 13.
  
  
• A Morning in May, a one-act play, was a finalist in Darknight Theatrical Productions playwriting competition. An excerpt from the play was staged June 2 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
  
  
• The Body Washer was staged for three weekends in May as part of the Variations on Justice project. It was one of ten plays exploring the theme of justice in a production sponsored by The Run of the Mill Theater company in Baltimore.
  
  The play premiered April 27 as part of the 13th annual New York City 15-Minute Play Festival at the American Globe Theater in Manhattan. The New York production was made possible through the support of The Guild of Italian American Actors

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• Animal Instincts, a full-length drama, was staged by The Playwrights Forum, Memphis, TN, for three weekends in May 2007.
  
  
• The popular one-act comedy In the Tank was produced on May 25, 2007 at Green Run High School, Virginia Beach, VA
  
  
• In the Tank was also produced during the first week of April at Mountain View High School, Orem, Utah.
  
  
• In the Tank was staged in February as part of the 2007 Annual One Act Play Contest of the Arden Club Theatre, Arden, Delaware.
  
  
• There was a dramatic reading of a new one-act drama Final Round on January 13, 2007 at the Fells Point Corner Theater, Baltimore, MD

• A new full-length comedy, The Ice Cream King, premiered in Midland, Texas, produced by The Maverick Players weekends from November 3 through November 19, 2006.

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• Tilapia was produced on November 17 and 19, 2006 at the Ross J. Boddy Recreation Center, Sandy Spring, MD. The production was part of the Sandy Spring Theatre Group's One-Act Play Festival.
  
  
• In the Tank was staged in The World Premiere One-Act Play Festival at Gettysburg (PA) College on November 15.
  
  
• Saying Goodbye to Papa, a one-act comedy, was produced Oct. 13, 14, and 15 as part of the One-Act Comedy Festival staged by The Rockville Little Theatre at the Gaithersburg (MD) Arts Barn.
  
  
• On Wednesday, September 20, The Fells Point Corner Theater, 251 S. Ann St., Baltimore hosted a staged reading of a new full-length comedy, The Ice Cream King
  
  
• Going Up, a one-act play, was produced in August 2006 as part of the Variations on Fear project by Run of the Mill Theater, Baltimore. The project featured a number of short plays, all with the common theme of fear, and was named the Best Production of 2006 in The City Paper's annual "Best of Baltimore" issue.
  
  As part of this same project, Going Up received a staged reading on June 11, 2006 at St. John's Church, Baltimore.
  
  Going Up was also produced in July 2006 during Artscape, Baltimore's annual Festival of the Arts.
  
  

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• Corneredwas produced by Moving Arts Theater Company in Los Angeles from February 25 to March 25, 2006.
  
  
• Rosemary Frisino Toohey was the featured playwright in a panel discussion: Whose Role Is It Anyway? Non-traditional Casting, Creativity and the Law at the Hippodrome Theater, France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, Baltimore. The event was sponsored by the Hippodrome Foundation, Inc and the University of Maryland School of Law. November 16, 2005,
  
  
• Berry Season, a short comedy, received a staged reading in New York City by the Guild of Italian American Actors. The reading took place October 21, 2005 at the Producers Club, 358 West 44th Street.
  
  
• Staged readings of Cornered and Socks were presented as part of the Baltimore Book Festival, Sunday, September 25, 2005
  
  
• In the Tank was produced by the Bare Stage Theatre, Red Bluff, CA on September 16 & 17, 2005. It was staged as part of the theater's program of short plays, "Six Tens @ Eight."
  
  
• Frozen Fish Sticks, a one-act comedy, was staged at the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Laurel, MD on the weekend of Sept. 9, 2005 as part of the theater's annual one-act play festival