Mo is back on staff as Associate Artistic Director at Cape Rep Theatre in Brewster, MA.  She is a free-lance director and a well-respected acting teacher and coach.  She is hard at work on Cape Rep’s 2014 season, where she will kick things off with Jez Butterworth’s incredible play, Jerusalem and close out the year with the fantastic American musical, Funny Girl. Last season found her hard at work on Cape Rep’s season opener, Anna Christie and writing and composing Dinosaur Pirates from Outerspace!, a new children’s musical which premiered last summer at Cape Rep’s Outdoor Theatre.  She recently did the sound design for the 2012 world premiere of husband, Art Devine’s, new play, The Bottom of the Sky at Cape Rep Theatre.  Her 2011 production of the world premiere of her ghost story, GOOD BYE Mary Rose, garnered great reviews and freaked out many an audience member.  It was named among the Cape Cod Times Best Shows of 2011.

At Cape Rep, she runs Theatrelab I and II at Cape Rep:  two ten-week courses in professional theatre training for actors and directors.  Both labs are hugely successful.  Check it out at:  www.caperep.org .  Look for Theatrelab to begin again in October!  This summer, she will also be running Cape Rep’s Internship Program, focusing on growing the talent of young Cape actors.

Formerly an actor (with roles as diverse as Jill in Equus, the title role in Evita, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Mo graduated from Holy Cross (a French/Pre-Med major) and spent a year performing bone marrow transplants on mice before deciding to spend a summer in San Francisco at ACT to pursue her love of theatre.  She studied acting and directing at Trinity Rep Conservatory  and received her MFA in directing from UCSD.  She is a member of SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society).  She returned to the stage after a nearly 20 year hiatus in the title role of The Drowsy Chaperone for Cape Rep.  We’ll see how many more decades pass before she trods the boards again!

Twice nominated for the prestigious Richard E. Sherwood Award at the Mark Taper Forum, the San Diego Union Tribune named her one of Five Noisemakers for 1998 along with Tony-nominated actress Cherry Jones and the Company of RENT. Her San Diego production of Playboy of the Western World was named to the San Diego Union Tribune’s Top Ten of 1996 and her Cape Rep productions of Eurydice, Wit and All My Sons as well as her Harwich Junior Theatre production of Peter Pan and Wendy made the Cape Cod Times Best Shows of 2001, 2005 and 2010. She has directed throughout the Cape and at various regional theaters. 

Mo is also a much sought after sound designer, having designed the sound for nearly twenty different shows, most recently for   Cape Rep’s production of The Bottom of the Sky and The Beauty Queen of Leenane.  Favorite sound designs include Cape Rep’s A Streetcar Named Desire and Topdog/Underdog. 

The mother of three wonderful boys, Mo is married to the writer/director/actor, Art Devine.  They are writing partners currently collaborating on screenplays and stage plays.