Fun Stuff First. Actual Professional Data Below.

JillWrites, but Jill also sketches, photographs, and plays with pastels, not to mention fashions inscrutable collagey things that she mails to her friends. An obsessive Flickrite, she is an active member of the 365 Days group, and is currently engaged in the long-term challenge of taking a portrait of herself every day for an entire year. She has a crush on Hamlet, and the way to her heart is through ice cream.

Jill loves certain actors, math, and being reminded that the last guy she ever found intimidating is only human and sometimes looks awful in photographs. She hates the Star Wars prequels (a case study in suckitude), being forced to listen to Gloria Estefan, soaps that look edible, and artistic elitists who try to condescend because she likes romantic comedies.

Ways to Learn About Jill

You can check out her autobiography via baby pictures. See what's in her bag. (Are you prepared for this extent of geekiness?) Let her babble random song lyrics and girl-crushes. Eavesdrop on her conversing with her various selves and the characters who inhabit her brain. Read a bit of her philosophy. Discover The Top 12 Reasons Why Jill Is a Geek. Or witness what happens when she declares war on a Sudoku puzzle.

You could try asking her friends, most of whom live in her laptop. But they probably won't answer. They're cool like that. But Jill's links page does specify whose cyber-homes she treats as her own, and therefore at which she is most likely to make the most incriminating comments. She also sometimes hangs out with people she can prove are real, but they're probably too wrapped up debating varied Star Wars-related topics in public places, drunk dialing, or objectifying Australian football players and unsuspecting Manhattan pedestrians to actually answer you.

Actual Professional Data

Jill holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dramatic Literature, Theater History, and Cinema from New York University's College of Arts and Science, and a Master of Arts from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. While at Gallatin, her coursework focused on interdisciplinary ideas of postmodernity, culminating in a thesis on Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead as a postmodern reading of Hamlet. Her related arts project, the full-length play Reference Material [3am Pie] was presented at the New York International Fringe Festival. She has had several one-acts and ten-minute plays produced in New York City, and in 2006, she completed her second full-length play, The Boy on the Other Side of the World.

Jill reviews theater for OffOffOnline and has written for DailyOm. She is a volunteer staff member at FringeNYC, and has also worked at other theater and arts festivals. At the City Univerisity of New York, she has taught Introduction to Stage Management, Introduction to Technical Theater, and various levels of college writing. A now-retired instructor and private tutor for The Princeton Review, she also prepared hundreds of students for standardized admissions tests to high schools, colleges, and graduate schools. Further information will be accessible on her homepage once re-design is completed.