Virginia, a three year veteran of The Sundance Institute's Playwrights' Lab, returned from Sundance in August of 1983 and, with Didi Conn, Ethan Phillips and Peter Hay, helped form First Stage, an organization dedicated to developing new material for the stage and screen. Since that time, she has been a Board member, the Board president, a long time member of the Artistic Committee and has directed over fifty staged readings and two workshop productions. She is looking forward to producing plays by many of the writers she has collaborated with over the years.
A Harvard graduate, she studied acting and directing with Robert Chapman at the Loeb Drama Center. Later, she trained with Sanford Meisner and William Esper at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and with Paul Sills in Chicago. After appearing in Cleveland at the Karamu Theatre in Lanford Wilson's Home Free, Anthony Newleys Stop the World I Want to Get Off and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of An Author, she moved to Seattle and acted in Athol Fugard's Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act at Black Arts West. She co-wrote and performed in Conan the Barbarian with The One Reel Vaudeville Show at Seattle Center. In Alaska, she directed Uncle Vanya and Arthur Kopit's Indians. In New York, she performed at the New York Theatre Ensemble in An Enemy Of The People and in Libby and the Giants at Playwrights Horizons. In Chicago, she acted at the St. Nicholas Theatre in Nasty Rumors and Final Remarks and at The Renaissance Repertory Theatre in The Taming Of The Shrew

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