A graduate of the University of Toronto, Marilyn is both a screenwriter and playwright. She has three screenplays in development which she co-wrote, one of which received the Audience Choice award at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto in 2006. She was invited to join the CBS and HBO sponsored story development workshop and writer's lab hosted by NALIP, and most recently, was invited to participate in the Disquiet Literary Conference in Lisbon, Portugal for the Writing the Luso Experience with Katherine Vaz. Marilyn's plays include, So This is Paradise, Disoriented Housewives andRoselyn's Secret.