Cori is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and author. Her plays have been produced around the country and her current projects include a screenplay in development for HBO/Tribeca Films, and the feature length documentary Finding Ma. She co-authored, with Sara Kruzan “I Cried To Dream Again: Trafficking, Murder and Deliverance - A Memoir” published by Penguin Random House. Cori is the Andrew Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at WP Theater and a current New Dramatists Resident Playwright. ​​In 2022, she was one of five playwrights to win the prestigious Helen Merrill Playwriting Award. She is a member of the WGA, serves on the Board of No More Tears SQ, and is a longtime volunteer at the San Quentin Media Center.