Members of Frump

Born a suburban white girl (with the requisite inability to dance) Mary was introduced to rock n roll at the tender age of 5 by the teen-aged sisters of her best friend. Decades later, having shrugged off the toxic side effects of boy band worship, she began rocking out with the Frump moms. A filmmaker and performance artist in former lives, her hobbies currently including wreaking havoc on sterotypical images of motherhood and spreading the gospel according to PJ Harvey. Mary has an MFA from Columbia University (NY) in Directing for Theater, and is the recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Art Matters, and the Irving Community Television Network.

SZ lurked around the punk scene of Austin in the early 80s, shooting super-8 movies of many a spiky haired misfit who wandered down the drag. In the mid 1980's she moved to Dallas and took a position as curator of the video art at the Starck Club. She founded a multimedia performance art band called Happy TVs in which she sang and her back-up vocals appeared on TV monitors. This group won a grant for interdisciplinary arts from the Southwest Alternate Media Project. She holds a Masters of Library Science and works as a Children s Librarian for the Dallas Public Library. SZ founded Frump in 2001 to break out of the frumpy rut of working motherhood. Now, to her kids at least, she is a rock star.

Voted Most Likely To Be Consistently Radical by her high school folk music club, Frances Peterson has gone on to become a rock roller in her fifth decade as a guitar player, vocalist and songwriter with Frump. Too bad the intervening years were spent as actress, drama teacher, conflict resolution trainer and mom rather than practicing with amp and ax. Who knew four chords could be so much fun? Frances works in the development office of a Montessori school. She has no degrees in anything except separation, and she has 6 of those.

Lucy studied visual art at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and earned a B.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lucy works for a decorative accessories outlet and spends much of her time remodeling her historic home. She actually does the work herself! When she joined Frump her musical knowledge was limited to observing her daughter's piano lessons. Since then she has learned to play bass guitar and even sing at the same time.

Diane attended Music and Art High School in New York City (think Fame), and graduated from San Diego State University where she studied music, dance and film. She currently invests in real estate, and is music director of a private school in Dallas, TX. She has performed, recorded, and written music professionally for over two decades. Diane also holds several world and national titles in flying disc (Frisbee) competition. She joined Frump to share the fun of music with other moms who like to rock and roll.