About

Before graduating from the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, Victoria had a varied career in stage-management. Her hands were a visual image throughout Peter Sellars’ and Tan Dun’s THE PEONY PAVILION in Paris, London, and Rome. She walked on stilts and manipulated Julie Taymor puppets in Andrei Serban’s KING STAG. She was even a Yeshiva boy in David Gordon’s SHLEMIEL THE FIRST. But her favorite thing was working on new plays, including premieres by Naomi Wallace, Paula Vogel, David Rabe, Anna Deveare Smith, and Paul Rudnick. 

As a playwright, she has received the Francesca Primus Award, a McKnight Advancement Grant, the Helen Merrill Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award (finalist), a MAP Grant and the Jerome Fellowship as well as residencies at Ucross/Sundance, Nashville Repertory Theater, Sewanee Writers Conference, Hedgebrook, Tofte Lake, Hermitage, Page 73 and the Donmar Warehouse.  

Her plays include RICH GIRL (Florida Studio Theater, Old Globe, Cleveland Playhouse, George Street Playhouse), THE MEANING OF MAGGIE (Rose Theater), MERCY WATSON TO THE RESCUE (Children’s Theater Company, Marin Theater), LIVE GIRLS (Urban Stages, WHAT, Stage Left, Eternal Spiral Project), HARDBALL (Live Girls! Theater, SPF), NIGHTWATCHES (Overlap Productions), 800 WORDS: THE TRANSMIGRATION OF PHILIP K. DICK, (Caravan Theater, Hourglass Group, Live Girls! Theater, Workhaus Collective), and an adaptation of Henry James’ THE BOSTONIANS. She was one of the collaborators on FISSURES (lost and found) presented at the Humana Festival and a collaborator on CLANDESTINO, a bilingual meditation on Postville, Iowa, one of the largest immigration raids in US history which has been performed at Mixed Blood and the New York Theater Workshop. She has co-translated two Japanese plays, SLOWLY, ROLLING and ONE MAN SHOW and one Russian play THE VORSKI ARE NEAR, BUT NOT ENOUGH and her play PLANET X was performed on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater.  Her newest play DESCENT has been developed at Moving Arts and the Road Theater.

She’s written a screenplay for HBO about the recording industry’s battle with Napster, a bio-pic about Karl Rove and has developed projects at Fox and Youtube Red. Her play HARDBALL has been optioned by Safehouse Pictures. She is working on a game, working from a story by Chris Carter (of The X-Files.) She is a member of the Skylight Theater PlayLab, the Chalk Rep Writers Group, an Affiliated Writer at the Playwrights’ Center and a member of WGA West.