Irene Ziegler’s play, Full Plate Collection, was staged at the Barksdale Theater in Richmond, Virginia in the spring of 2010. Her collection of stories, Rules of the Lake (Southern Methodist University Press, 1999), was adapted for the stage and won the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for drama. Ziegler is the author of the novel Ashes to Water (Five Star, 2010). She works as an actor and a voice over artist.