formed Metropolitan Klezmer octet (1994) and Isle of Klezbos all-women’s sextet (1998) and has produced their five CDs, receiving multiple NYSCA & Sparkplug Foundation grants and Outmusic Awards and more for creative work with both bands. Her arrangements have been heard in the HBO documentary feature SCHMATTA: Rags to Riches to Rags, Showtime’s The L Word, The Royal Ballet’s First Drafts (Covent Garden), and SITI CO’s Score (NY Theatre Workshop, Wexner Center & national tour). She wrote lyrics and music as well as scripting J. Edgar Klezmer Songs from My Grandmother’s FBI Files, a 2008 TimeOut NY Critics Pick supported by NYC’s Department of Cultural Affairs, which played Dixon Place, The JCC in Manhattan and beyond, featuring most Klezbos bandmates in its cast. Her collaboration with Yiddish diva Adrienne Cooper, Krankayt! Jews, Hypochondria & Song, debuted at The JCC in Manhattan. A Harvard honors graduate in Russian History and Literature, she has published and lectured on The Yiddish Celluloid Closet throughout North America and Europe, as well as working for YIVO Institute, Warhol Foundation Archives, and MoMA’s Yiddish film series Bridge of Light. Drumming since age eight, she has also played samba, R&B, Balkan, swing, Cajun/zydeco, Middle Eastern and more with The Voodoobillies, The Mazeltones, Charming Hostess among others on both East and West Coasts.