Career
Draper starred as Ellyn Warren in Thirtysomething. Draper's screenwriting debut was in Gary Winick's The Tic Code which is about Tourette syndrome, a condition her husband, Michael Wolff has; he contributed the film's score. In 2003, Draper's play, Getting Into Heaven, was written to encourage equality among the lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender community. Draper starred as Cat Vennita, a lesbian singer-songwriter, who has to care for her son Danny (Cooper Pillot) on her own, as Vennita has a strained relationship with Danny's biological mother, Rose (Gretchen Egolf), a bisexual drummer. The conflict revolves around Rose, who broke up with Vennita to date Danny's biological father, Jed (James Badge Dale) again. As Draper made her debut as a singer-songwriter, the music was composed and performed by her husband.
In 2007 Draper served as creator, writer, executive producer, and director of Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band, a rock-mockumentary starring her sons Nat and Alex Wolff. The series was adapted by the independent film-turned modified pilot The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, which Draper wrote and directed. Draper does not appear in the film—except with the thirtysomething cast in one of the scenes—or the TV series; the characters' mother is mentioned as deceased.
By 2012, she acted in the play My Brilliant Divorce at the Bay Street Theater.
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