As a poet, Thea has had poetry and short fiction published in Rattle, Spillway, Common Lives, Peregrine XVI, ONTHE BUS, Next... Magazine, The Southern California Anthology, San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, Apollo’s Lyre, Sunspinner, and poetic diversity. She was a semifinalist in the Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition. Thea has given numerous poetry and fiction readings in Southern California and New England. Her chapbook, Be Ye Love (Inevitable Press) is part of the Laguna Poets series. She represented Los Angeles at the 1998 National Poetry Slam Competition in Austin, Texas, where the team came in third place out of 45 cities. Her first book of contextual poems, called "The Sanctuary of Artemis", is soon to be published by Tebot Bach.  She is in Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets, and Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust.  Thea is featured in the documentary    "GV6 THE ODYSSEY: Poets, Passion and Poetry."

As a playwright, Thea's one-act play "When I Was Called Tony" was produced November 2002 at the OUT Theatre in Long Beach, California. Joining forces with her 90-year old mother, her new one-act play "Primed for Love" had a staged reading in September 2003. She has written six other plays including ‘Amacry! The Neuronic Musical’ which had a workshop production at The OUT Theatre in April 2004 and "At Seven", a children's musical she wrote with her sister Penni Rubin in 2006, was produced by the Toledo Rep www.toledorep.org and touring the Toledo school system for two years now. Thea's one man show "The Only Thing Greek" www.theonlythinggreek.com is being shown at different theatres around town.