Conceive four quarterly issues of WNY's regional shelter magazine and execute start to finish.

My work has been seen in 48 states and on five continents, including at Barrington Stage, Barrow Group, Celebration Theatre, Gulfshore Theatre, Queens Theatre, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, Theatre Aspen, The Road, Phoenix Theatre, Atlantic Stage, Purple Rose, Skylight, Pride Films and Plays, New Jersey Rep, Hens and Chickens (London), The Galway Fringe Festival, and Actors Repertory Theatre of Luxembourg. Plays include BRILLIANT WORKS OF ART (Kilroys List), ELEVATOR GIRL (O’Neill, Princess Grace, and Austin Film Festival finalist), SAFE (winner of the Todd McNerney, Naatak, and Great Gay Play and Musical Contests), and TEACH (Gulfshore New Works, O'Neill semifinalist). I've been nominated for the Primus, Blackburn, and Laura Pels prizes, and am a three-time winner of the Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play (SEEDS, SONS & LOVERS, ONCE IN MY LIFETIME). I've also twice received Individual Artist Awards from the New York State Council on the Arts to develop HEARTS OF STONE and CANALSIDE, and, in its final three years, Artvoice named me Buffalo's Best Writer—the only woman to ever receive the designation.I have served the Dramatists Guild in various capacities since 2012, am an ensemble playwright at Road Less Traveled Productions, blogger, former moderator of the 13,500+-member Official Playwrights of Facebook, New York Times-published crossword puzzle constructor; children's and trivia book author; and founder/co-curator of BUA Takes 10: GLBT Short Stories. Speaking engagements include Citywrights, Kenyon Playwrights Conference, the Dramatists Guild National Conference, Chicago Dramatists, the Austin Film Festival, and a live Dramatists Guild webinar. Her commentary has been seen on #2amt, howlround, The Dramatist, the Official Playwrights of Facebook, Workshopping the New Play (Applause, 2017), and at donnahoke.com.

In my home community of Buffalo, New York, I've had plays produced at Road Less Traveled Productions, Alleyway Theatre, Buffalo United Artists, Buffalo State University, First Look Buffalo, Theatre of Youth, Shea's Smith Theatre, and Subversive Theatre, and readings at Alt Theatre, Post-Industrial Productions, and Second Generation Theatre.

Create weekly crossword puzzle for Soap Opera Digest magazine (and before it ended, Soap Opera Weekly magazine as well) and custom puzzles for private clients. Author of THE CROSSWORD PLAY, published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. Puzzles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, GAMES Magazine, Simon & Schuster publications and more.

I have authored three books:Neko and the Twiggets, children's book and The Ultimate Trivia Book Vols. 1 and 2: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Donna-Hoke/author/B004KZIK0S?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true